On Wednesday, April 6 at 12:10 p.m., the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program will be streamed.

Violinists Andrew Kwon and Stephanie Pak will perform duos by Mozart, Wieniawski, and Viotti on a Facebook stream and YouTube.

On the program are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – “Duet #5 for Two Violins in A minor,” Henryk Wieniawski – “Etude Caprice #1 in G minor” and Giovanni Battista Viotti – “Duo for Two Violins in G Major.”

Born in Los Angeles, violinist Stephanie Pak leads an avid musical life in chamber music, orchestra and studio music. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in biological sciences and violin performance and studied with Henry Gronnier. She then continued her graduate studies with James Buswell at the New England Conservatory and Dr. Lina Bahn at USC, where she received her master’s degree.

Pak joined the Santa Barbara Symphony and the New West Symphony as section violinist and also regularly performs with the Pacific Symphony and Mozart Classical Orchestra. She has served as assistant concertmaster with the National Repertory Orchestra and has toured internationally as a violinist with Lincoln Center Stage. She is also an active studio musician, working in numerous performances and recording sessions with John Williams, Elton John, Alan Silvestri and most notably can be heard on the BAFTA-nominated soundtrack for Hans Zimmer’s “Planet Earth II.” Aside from classical performance, Pak loves drinking coffee and creating social media content for coffee companies.

Praised for his bold, no-compromise manner of playing as well as his sensitivity in ensemble settings, Andrew Dae Yun Kwon’s virtuosity and charismatic stage presence has captivated audiences throughout the world. Born into a musical family, Kwon first began his studies on the violin in Korea with his father, who was a choir and orchestra director. Since making his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut at age 10, he has appeared in concert halls throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, South Korea and China.

In the past few years, Kwon has performed solo, chamber and orchestral performances in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (New York), the U.S. Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium (Washington DC), the Music Center at Strathmore (Washington DC), the Maison symphonique (Montreal), Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore) and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, among others. He currently performs with the Santa Barbara Symphony and Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, as guest concertmaster of the Orange Coast College Symphony Orchestra in the 2019-20 season and as a freelance musician with the recording studios of Los Angeles.

Kwon is passionate about teaching and passing the torch onto a new generation of musicians. His violin and viola students have received numerous prizes in local and national competitions and can be seen in the principal chairs of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Orange County Youth Symphony, California All-State Orchestras, All-Southern Orchestras and the National Youth Orchestras of America.

The Glendale Noon Concerts is celebrating its 14^th year of presenting free admission, and now streamed, concerts every first and third Wednesday for Glendale and the Southland community.

 Upcoming concerts will be updated at http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com. For more information, email glendalesda@gmail.com or call (818) 244-7241.