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On Wednesday, Aug. 7, the Glendale Noon Concerts will feature violinist Jacqueline Suzuki and pianist Brendan White performing works by Mozart, Gianopoulos, Massenet and Rachmaninoff-Kreisler.
The free admission Glendale Noon Concerts perform live in the sanctuary of Glendale City Church, 610 E. California Ave. in Glendale.
Glendale Noon Concerts is celebrating its 16th year of presenting free admission concerts every first and third Wednesday for Glendale and the Southland community.
Upcoming concerts will be updated at: http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com.
The Aug. 7 program includes Mozart’s “Sonata for Piano and Violin in E Minor, K. 304,” Gianopoulos’ “City Vignettes for Violin and Piano, Op. 29d,” Massenet’s “Meditation from ‘Thais’ for violin and piano” and Rachmaninoff/Kreisler’s “Liebesleid for solo piano.”
Jacqueline Suzuki, violin, is a longtime member of the Long Beach and Santa Barbara symphonies. A native of San Francisco, she began her earliest chamber music studies on scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory. She has performance degrees from the Mannes College of Music (BM) where she studied with William Kroll, and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA). As a Los Angeles freelancer, she has performed with many ensembles and in many genres, from rock, jazz, Latin and Arabic, to playing in the pit for the Bolshoi Ballet and onstage with the Three Tenors. She has recorded with diverse artists: Snoop Dogg, Neil Sedaka, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston, Bocelli, Lalo Schifrin, McCoy Tyner, Placido Domingo and many others, and appears on recordings by the Long Beach, Santa Barbara and Pacific symphonies. She has spent summers at the Peter Britt, Oregon Coast, Carmel Bach and Cabrillo Festivals and has performed in a string quartet “in residence” on a raft trip down the Green River in Utah. Tours have taken her many times to Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and throughout the U.S.
Born in Jackson, Tennessee and now based in Los Angeles, pianist Brendan White appears frequently in solo recitals and chamber ensembles and as a soloist with orchestra. As soloist, White has performed with Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Vicente Chamber Orchestra, Symphony of the Verdugos, Crown City Symphony, Global Harmony Symphony, Delta Symphony Orchestra and Jackson Symphony Orchestra.
As a recording artist, White was featured on Danaë Vlasse’s Grammy Award-winning album Mythologies. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Speakeasy Society and Eighteen Squared. He is an original member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles. White’s repertoire spans many centuries and genres and he has worked with well-known composers such as Thomas Adès, Stephen Cohn, Donald Crockett, and Danaë Vlasse.
White is also a composer of original music. Local recital appearances include: Piano Spheres Emerging Artist Series, Soundwaves in Santa Monica, Silicon Beach CO Recital Series, Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, La Cañada Presbyterian, Music@Mimoda, Alhambra Performing Arts Center, and Mason Concerts. He attended the Eastman School of Music and the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California.