Rhonda Bradetich • Flutist

Idaho native Rhonda Bradetich has won both the Northwest Young Artist Competition and the Spokane Music and Arts Festival Young Artist Competition. She has received several grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and was chosen to perform for the Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts in 1994. 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 Northwest composers and has appeared in the Northwest Bach Festival and the Zephyr Chamber Music Series in Spokane. She is a member of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. She has appeared regularly in chamber concerts with the Festival at Sandpoint where she studied with Pulitzer Prize winner Gunther Schuller. She is on the board of that organization now, as well as the board of Arts Northwest, a regional touring organization.

Ms. Bradetich is adjunct professor of flute at North Idaho College. She has also been a flute instructor for the Lionel Hampton School of Music Summer Program at the University of Idaho. 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.

She and Paul Grove have been performing together since 1995, touring their program of “Music of the Americas” throughout the western states and bringing their combined educational skills to outreach programs in small towns and cities alike. Hailed as “excellent ambassadors for Classical music” their informative and entertaining performances have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Paul Grove • Guitarist

Dr. Paul Grove was born in Philadelphia and at the age of fifteen he was sponsored by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Rotary to attend the Peabody Conservatory of Music while still in high school. Among other awards, he was the first guitarist to win the Peabody Concours Competition. Following his work at Peabody he studied with the renowned pedagogue Aaron Shearer at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In North Carolina he participated in editing Dr. Shearer’s series of pedagogical books, Learning the Classic Guitar. There he also became the first recipient in the United States of the master’s degree of Pedagogy and Performance. In 1991 he was the first guitarist to receive the Graduate College Fellowship at the University of Arizona. In Arizona he won prizes in several national and international competitions including the Guitar Foundation on America competition, the Ponce competition, the Great Lakes competition, the Stotsenberg International competition, and the Norman Sholin Memorial competition. He also received a Jacob Javits research grant to pursue a Ph.D. in Russian music. He spends time every year in Brazil, researching and performing works by Brazilian composers.

Dr. Grove has performed in several national music festivals including the Eastern Music Festival, the Guitar Northwest Festival, and the second Guitar Congress. He has been a featured soloist with the North Idaho Symphony, The Westminster Chamber Orchestra, Allegro: Baroque and Beyond, and the Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra. He teaches guitar on the faculties of North Idaho College, Gonzaga University and Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.