Pianist RHONDA BRADETICH and guitarist PAUL GROVES present MUSIC AND MYTH.
Program
Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22 #1: Pablo Sarasate
Seven Spanish Folk Songs: Manuel De Falla
El Panomano
Nana
Caución
Polo
Canyon Echoes: Katherine Hoover
Dance
Serenade
She Mourns
He Returns
Andante in E Minor: Florence Price
Mountain Songs: Robert Beaser
Barbara Allen
House Carpenter
Hush You Bye
Cindy
MUSICIAN BIOS
Flutist RHONDA BRADETICH lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she substitutes with the San Francisco Symphony as well as other ensembles. In 2009, she was the solo piccoloist for the Honolulu Symphony and the Hawaii Opera Theater. In 2012, she was awarded a Fellowship Award by the Idaho Commission on the Arts. She was able to use this for a tour of Southeast Asia and to attend a conference in Java where she was a US Delegate for the Conference for Asian Cultural Arts Promotion. In 1994, she was chosen as a featured soloist for the Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts. She currently performs with Music at the Mission: Chamber Music Outside the Box. She is also on the board of that organization. Ms. Bradetich has premiered many works by new composers, appearing at the Northwest Bach Festival, and in the Zephyr Chamber Music Series in Spokane, Washington. She has performed with the Adorno Ensemble, contemporary Ensemble in Residence at San Francisco State University. In 1993, she was chosen as the winner of the Northwest Young Artist Competition. She has performed with the Orquestra de Monterrey, Mexico, Symphony Silicon Valley, the Boise Philharmonic, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. With the Festival at Sandpoint, she has frequently been a soloist with the Spokane Symphony and appeared regularly in chamber concerts, also studying with Pulitzer Prize-winner Gunther Schuller. Ms. Bradetich is very interested in education and served as Adjunct Professor of flute at North Idaho College from 1995-2006,and flute instructor for the Lionel Hampton School of Music Summer Program at the University of Idaho. She has often coached the San Francisco Youth Orchestra as well. She has toured extensively in residencies around the United States with guitarist Paul Grove, the Bradetich-Grove Duo. This included a 2-week tour of Montana where she worked with children from many Native American cultures. As a recording artist, she has released several recordings on the Goldenflute label; Reflections, Mosaic, and most recently, the Church Sessions.
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 of 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 has spent time 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.
WEDNESDAY NOON CONCERT SERIES INFORMATION
For the past 5 years we have offered complimentary classical concerts every Wednesday featuring renowned musicians from around the world. Thank you so much to all who joined us and performed for us over these past seasons. You have helped make this concert series a special place where community and friends can gather for the love of live music and discover something new and beautiful each and every week.
Throckmorton Theatre is determined to offer the inspiration of live music to every community member, regardless of financial ability. Thus we offer these concerts free of charge to the public, however we pay all performers and incur costs to produce these events. We are incredibly grateful for any and all donations and we also welcome sponsorships of any level.
Concerts are approximately an hour long and most performances take place in the Tivoli room, where both the audience and musicians can sit in close proximity, creating an intimate concert setting. Please take a look at our calendar of these special events and join us!
