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RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSICProgram & artist bios: https://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/2025/11/glendale-noon-concerts-live-in-person.html
On Wednesday NOVEMBER 19, 2025
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program
will be performed in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church.
610 E. California Ave, Glendale, CA 91206
PARKING INFO:
https://glendalecitychurch.org/location
Glendale Noon Concerts
Wednesday NOVEMBER 19, 2025 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
CELLO RECITAL
RACHEL COOSAIA – cello
JAMES LENT-piano
Georg Golterman (German, 1824-1898)
Etude Caprice Opus 54, No. 4, for Cello and Piano
Gabriel Faure (French, 1845-1924)
Siciliene Op. 78
Johann Christian Bach (German, 1735-1782)
Concerto in C minor, III. Allegro molto energico
Ludwig van Beethoven (German, 1770-1827)
Seven Variations for piano and cello, Wo0 46
William Henry Squire (British, 1871-1963)
Tarantella, Op. 23
Astor Piazzolla (Argentine, 1921-1992) Arr. Patricio Villarejo
Oblivion for Cello and Piano
Pablo Casals (Spanish, 1876-1973)
Song of the Birds, for cello and piano
ARTIST BIOS:
Michigan native Rachel Coosaia has enjoyed a dynamic career as a cellist for more than three decades. Rachel is a graduate of Western Michigan University, where she studied with Bruce Uchimura. She then continued her training in Los Angeles under the esteemed Ronald Leonard.
Rachel is a member of the St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra and the Riverside Philharmonic, and maintains an active freelance career spanning orchestral, musical theater, recording, and popular music settings. Rachel has collaborated with renowned artists including John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Galway, Julie Andrews, Sir Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Tony Bennett, and her cello can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks such as Glee, New Girl, Hotel Costiera and Homecoming.
Complementing her performing career, Rachel is deeply committed to music education, particularly the Suzuki Method. Since beginning her Suzuki training in 2009 with esteemed mentors Pam Devenport, Jean Dexter, Rick Mooney, and Dr. Tanya Carey, she has developed a thriving private studio of 25 students. Her passion for teaching extends beyond individual instruction through volunteer work with organizations such as the Harmony Project and the Young Musicians Foundation advocating for accessible music education in underserved communities.
Pianist James Lent is Lecturer and Coordinator of Collaborative Piano at UCLA. James completed his DMA at the Yale School of Music under teachers Boris Berman, Claude Frank, and Peter Frankl. He made his Alabama Symphony debut to critical acclaim performing Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 on 24 hours’ notice to replace Andre Watts and has also performed with the Torrance Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Utah Symphony and the Florida West Coast Symphony, among others, and as solo recitalist at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, for the National Chopin Foundation in Miami, at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he premiered a new work written for him by American composer Frederic Rzewski.
His numerous awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center, the Olga Koussevitsky Piano Competition in New York, and the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg National Young Artist Competition.He was a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. Dr. Lent also teaches at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) as collaborative pianist, vocal coach, and musical director.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Glendale City Church, 610 E California Ave, Glendale, CA 91206-3701, United States
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