Artists
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2011 - 2012 Concert Season
Sherry Phelps and Rachel Taylor |
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Ertan Torgul |
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Rhonda Bradetich, Flute |
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Ray Furuta |
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Aileen Chanco
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Chad Kaltinger
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Micheal Graham
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Bill Everett
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Robin Mayforth
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Mike Corner
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Emily Onderdonk
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Loren Mach
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November 6, 2010: Salon Series
Rhonda Bradetich, Flute
Idaho native Rhonda Bradetich was chosen to perform for the Idaho Governor´s Awards in the Arts in 1994. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Orquestra de Monterrey, Mexico, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Most recently, she was a member of the Honolulu Symphony where she held the Piccolo Position. She has been featured on PBS television in the Northwest and in California and on public radio channels throughout the country. Ms. Bradetich has premiered several works by new composers and has appeared in the Northwest Bach Festival and the Zephyr Chamber Music Series in Spokane. In the San Francisco Bay area she has performed with the Adorno Ensemble, contemporary Ensemble-in-Residence at San Francisco State University. She has won awards from the Northwest Young Artist Competition and the Spokane Music and Arts Festival Young Artist Competition and has received several grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, including an Apprenticeship Grant for to study in New York City. With the Festival at Sandpoint, she has been a soloist with the Spokane Symphony and appeared regularly in chamber concerts, also studying with Pulitzer Prize-winner Gunther Schuller. She has released her recording "Reflections", with pianist Stefanie Kowalski and harpists Leslie Stratton Norris and Therese Wunrow, as well as the recording "Mosaic" with guitarist Paul Grove, on the Goldenflute label.
Steve Pietkiewicz, Piano
Bill Everett, Bass
Aileen Chanco, Piano
November 20, 2010: Belle Epoque
Debra Fong, Violin
Debra is a relatively recent arrival from Chicago to the lush botanical splendor of the Bay Area. Since her years of study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, she has resided in a wide range of locales, including West Texas, Virginia Beach, the North Shore of Chicago, and California. Debra spends her summers performing as a violinist for The Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, and during the academic year she is a Lecturer in Music at Stanford University. She is married to cellist Christopher Costanza (of the St. Lawrence String Quartet), and they have a joyful and ebullient daughter, Isabella. When not making music, Debra can be found reading modern fiction or trying to figure out how her digital camera works. She also enjoys bike-riding and hiking, and she definitely does not miss shoveling snow during insanely cold Chicago winters.
Steve Huber, Violin
Emily Onderdonk, Viola
Gianna Abondolo, Cello
Bill Everett, Bass (see above)
Aileen Chanco, Piano (see above)
March 12, 2011: Old World, New World
Bill Everett, Bass (see above)
Michael Graham, Cello
Michael Graham has been hailed by the San Francisco Classical Voice for his "almost painfully pretty, expressive richness", and by the San Jose Mercury News as "super-good". He studied at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, where he was a founding member of that institution's secret chamber music society, Skull and Bows. Mr. Graham is a former member of the Chagall String Quartet, winner of a rural residency grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the San Francisco-based new music group Adorno Ensemble. He is currently a member of the Oakland Symphony, and appears regularly with such ensembles as the Grammy-award-winning New Century Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Graham is committed to exploring music beyond the classical genre, and has performed and recorded with artists ranging from Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg to John Densmore of the Doors.
Loren Mach, Percussion
Aileen Chanco, Piano (see above)
May 21, 2011: Viva Tango
QQ in Concert...
Seth Asarnow, Bandoneon Ertan Torgul, Violin
Paul Binkley, Guitar Aileen Chanco, Piano Bill Everett, Bass
