MAY 3, 2025, Saturday at NOON/Free Edendale Library Up Close Concerts presents The Chamber Players of Los Angeles

 

Join us at the Edendale Library Saturday May 3rd at 12:00 noon for a concert by The Chamber Players of Los Angeles, featuring Satik Andriassian (guitar), John M. Kennedy (bass), Jacqueline Suzuki (violin) and Patrick Marsh (viola). The Players will perform works for guitar and strings, including pieces by János Fusz, John M. Kennedy, and Franz Schubert.

The library is at 

2011 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026 in Echo Park, 

enter through the parking lot side off Alvarado St. 

Email eden@lapl.org for more information.

Classical guitarist Satik Andriassian teaches at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of several awards and scholarships, including the prestigious CSU Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar Award for her guitar performance and scholarly achievements. She has served as an adjudicator, instructor, and performer at the Malta International Music Festival and Competition, Settimana della Musica di Murlo, and the Solarino International Guitar Festival. Ms. Andriassian has been a member of Chamber Players Los Angeles since 2016 and has performed in various concerts throughout California and nationally. She is the founder and director of the CSULA Gohar & Ovanes Andriassian Classical Guitar Festival and Competition, as well as the Cal State LA Middle, High School, and Community Colleges Classical Guitar Ensemble Clinic.

The music of composer and bassist John M. Kennedy has been described as “coming out of contemporary music and the Jazz tradition from multiple eras” (James Newton). His first major international performance was in 1989 with the European premiere of his orchestral work “Portrait…” at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. Since then his work has been presented at festivals worldwide and concerts and recitals on four continents. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Composers Forum, and Meet the Composer have recognized and supported his work with grants and awards throughout his career. As a double bassist he performs regularly in orchestral, chamber and jazz groups in Los Angeles and as a soloist he premiered a series of works by William Roper. In 2021 his teaching was recognized with the President’s Distinguished Professor Award at Cal State LA where he has served as Professor of Composition since 1994. 

Patrick Marsh received his bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the University of Michigan and is currently attending The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins as a viola major.

As a violist, Patrick was one of the founding members of “Clemens Quartet,” a string quartet performing and competing throughout the United States. As a violinist, Patrick is a former concertmaster of The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. His performance opportunities have taken him across the United States, Europe, and St. Petersburg Russia.

Though classical music is the foundation of his technique, he can be found branching out into the jazz and rock genres. Patrick plays a blue Fourness Fuse 5-string electric violin and runs it through a Line6 Helix for effects, and two Gallien Krueger bass amps in stereo.

Patrick can also be heard as a featured soloist in such feature films as “Kids vs. Monsters” and “Pali Road” as well as such video games as “Relics of Gods” and Disney’s “Cartooniverse.” https://www.patrickmarshmusic.com/

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 US.