Dolce Melodie: chamber music and more!

Enjoy a fine evening of chamber music
featuring such composers as Mozart, Schumann, and Ravel, as well as more
contemporary numbers on Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s Barth
Community Room.  This special performance
is part of the Library’s new series of free quarterly concerts, featuring a
range of musical styles and instruments, brought to one and all by the Friends
of the Crowell Public Library and the San Marino Music Center.  Dolce Melodie features founder Elizabeth Walker on flute, Desiree Hazley on
violin, Jonathan Wang on clarinet and Susanna Sujin Kwon on cello.

Elizabeth
Walker has traveled through the U.S., the Bahamas, and Australia playing flute.
She graduated from Azusa Pacific University with the Bachelors in Music Flute
Performance and was a member of the Symphony Orchestra. Since graduation she has performed
throughout Southern California and has been a part of the Inland Valley
Symphony, Orange County Wind Symphony as well as Dolce Melodie. She has been
teaching for many years. 

Desiree Hazley graduated with a Bachelors of
Music in Violin Performance at Azusa Pacific University. In 2012, she had the
opportunity to study music with the concertmaster of the Heidelberg
Philharmonic for three months in Heidelberg, Germany. Desiree has worked on many
projects with artists including: Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart and she is the
violinist of the gypsy jazz band, Aux Amis. She teaches violin and plays in the
Claremont Symphony and Riverside Philharmonic.

Jonathan Wang started his music career at
Citrus College where he was the lead alto sax in the Blue Note Jazz Orchestra,
and lead clarinet in the Sierra Wind Symphony. Jonathan has performed
throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii and is
also a graduate of Azusa Pacific University and plans to pursue his teaching
credential.  Performance groups include
University Choir and Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble & Wind Ensemble and Bodhi
Rock.

Susanna Sujin
Kwon has been a cellist in the hit show Glee and is currently the main cello
instructor at San Marino Music Center. 
She is pursuing her Bachelor's degree at Azusa Pacific University in
cello performance, studying with Marek Szpakiewicz, as well as a Bachelor's in
sports psychology. She plans to continue studying for her Master's in both fields,
and a Doctorate's in psychology.

You
won’t want to miss this blissful evening of free music at Crowell Library.  Light refreshments will be served.  For more information on the San Marino Music
Center, visit: http://www.sanmarinomusiccenter.com/index.html.