Saturday Evening
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:30 pm
Hilltop Auditorium
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Tickets: $25
Goldenflute Chamber Trio
Award winning flutist Rhonda Bradetich is an Idaho native. 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. Bradetich has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, The Orquestra de Monterrey and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. She has premiered several works by Northwest composers and has appeared in the Northwest Bach Festival and the Zephyr Chamber Music Series in Spokane. With the Festival at Sandpoint, she soloed with the Spokane Symphony and appeared regularly in chamber concerts.
Hailed as “an astonishing pianist” [Philippine Star] and “steeped in expressiveness and tastefulness to the core” [San Jose Mercury News], pianist Aileen Chanco has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada and the Philippines. She has soloed with orchestras nationwide and has also appeared with the Banff Festival Orchestra, the Manila Symphony Orchestra and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. Chanco received both her BM and MM degrees from the Juilliard School and attended the Aspen Summer Music Festival, the Moscow Conservatory in America Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Sommermusikfest and was a Winter Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts.
Bill Everett serves as principal bass of Symphony Silicon Valley, after holding the same position for San Jose Symphony since 1998. He also spent three years as an acting member of the San Francisco Symphony, performing on numerous recordings and in halls throughout the United States and Europe. Everett has appeared as a free-lance musician with ensembles throughout the Bay Area and has been featured at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Nevada City and Desert MusicFest in Carefree, Arizona, as well as appearing in recital in the Bay Area with his wife, pianist Aileen Chanco. He has specialized in the music of Giovanni Bottesini, and has also pursued a deep interest in 20th century music. As a composer, he has had his music performed by the Worn Chamber in San Francisco.
