On Wednesday, Aug. 1 from 12:10 p.m. to 12:40 p.m., the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts will feature clarinetist James Sullivan, violinist Jacqueline Suzuki, cellist Derek Stein and pianist Brendan White performing the Hindemith clarinet quartet at the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church.

The performers share a rich history of performing. James Sullivan explores the versatility of the clarinet and bass clarinet family in an expansive scope of styles and repertoire. Collaborations range from free improvisation with Vinnie Golia, Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat with Martin Chalifour, and a several years with the Brad Dutz Quartet, a jazz chamber ensemble.

Based in the Los Angeles area, Sullivan honed his microtonal skills studying maqam while playing for a decade with classical Arabic ensemble Kan Zaman. His just intonation background includes premiering and recording Ben Johnston’s “Parable” and participating in the creation and recording of composer Andrew McIntosh’s “Symmetry Etudes.”

When taking a break from music, he likes to spend the day running in the mountains of Southern California.

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.

Described as “compellingly, vehemently virtuosic,” Derek Stein is a cellist whose active performance schedule knows virtually no bounds and is met with the same committed abandon he brings to his playing. Whether in the intimate intensity of a contemporary music concert, the rhythm section of an indie rock show, or in the cello section of an orchestra, his energetic and distinctive performing style can be heard in virtually any musical context and venue across Los Angeles and Southern California.

He can be heard on the Grammy-winning Bridge Records release “Harry Partch: Plectra and Percussion Dances” performing on the composer’s unique invention, the adapted viola. His recorded playing can also be heard on a number of releases from Bedroom Community, Cold Blue, Populist, New World, Bôłt, and The Industry record labels.

Stein is a founding member of the new music ensembles gnarwhallaby

and Trio Terroir, as well as the easily recognizable cellist with the critically acclaimed wild Up Modern Music Collective. As a contemporary classical musician, he has premiered hundreds of new works collaborating with some of the finest current composers. His flair for rock and pop styles can be heard in his work as both cellist and arranger with the Vitamin String Quartet. He has earned degrees in music performance from Arizona State University (BM) and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA).

Pianist Brendan White has appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), and the Delta Symphony Orchestra. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Speakeasy Society, and Eighteen Squared. He is also a founding member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles:www.sunsetchamberfest.com Local recital appearances include Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, Music@Mimoda, Mason Concerts, Emerging Artist Series recital at Boston Court.

White was born and raised in Tennessee before attending Eastman to study with Thomas Schumacher and then the University of Southern California with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he was awarded outstanding master’s graduate of the Thornton School of Music. As a devoted performer of new music, he has worked with notable composers and conductors including Thomas Adès, Donald Crockett, Alan Pierson, Steven Stucky and Jeffrey Milarsky.

The Aug. 1 free concert will be held at the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church, 610 E. California Ave. (at Isabel St) in Glendale.