The Glendale Noon Concerts presents on Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 12:10-12:40 p.m. violinist-composer Kirstin Fife and pianist Albert Wood Potts.

Fife will release a new collection of her short concert videos based on her composition, “The Major Arcana.” Each video is an homage to a specific tarot card. Within are gems from the humanities, including bits of poetry, philosophy, old film clips and art accompanied by Fife’s original compositions.

There are many wonderful violinists on the world’s stages today but not many of them compose and perform their own original compositions along with those of the master composers of centuries past. Kirstin Fife has distinguished herself as one of these more rare musicians, a consummate performer and composer.

Many of her concerts are given in an intimate setting, such as private homes and small theaters. She also performs in regular concert series, such as the Glendale Noon Concerts, the Pasadena Presbyterian noon concerts, the Sunday musicale series at the Newport Beach Library and The Sunspace Thursday night concert series. Recently, Fife has been promoting and performing her performance piece, “The Major Arcana” for violin and piano, which includes a slide show to enhance the presentation.

In addition to “The Major Arcana” Fife has been performing her pieces based on the artwork of Salvador Dali with the Dali Ensemble of Los Angeles. “Czechmate” and “Pieces of My Heart” are two CDs that she released in 1996 and 2011 respectively. In between were hundreds of recordings as a studio musician for movies, television and records, including “Mission Impossible,”  “Jag,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” ” and many others. On camera, she appeared on “American Idol,” “The Tonight Show” and “The Voice” and others.  Also, she has performed for all of the major awards shows, including the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the Country Music Awards and the Grammy Awards (with Prince and Bruno Mars).

Fife loves to perform for charitable causes; these have included The Alzheimer’s Foundation, The Red Shirt Project and Hope Gardens. She welcomes the opportunity to do much more of this kind of work.

Fife is in the business of creating, recording, performing and teaching. Her CDs are available on iTunes. Original compositions and arrangements are available on sheetmusicplus.com. https://kirstinfife.com

Pianist Albert Wood Potts has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music and a master’s from Northwestern University. In addition to piano, Potts is an award winning music director and has composed scores for a number of feature films.

The Glendale Noon Concerts is celebrating its 15^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.