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Linda Ghidossi-DeLuca, Principal Violist Ms. Ghidossi is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she received bachelor and Masters degrees in solo and chamber music performance. Her teachers have included Lillian Fuchs, Robert Mann, Emmanuel Vardi, Sally Peck-Lentz, Carol Garrett, Lucille VanDerWyk, and Robert Slaughter. She has studied chamber music with the Juilliard and Cleveland String Quartets, and with Frank Hauser. Linda participated in the Aspen Music Festival for five summers, and as a winner of the Pepsi-Cola Young Artist's Competition, she performed as a guest soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. Linda has appeared as a solo and orchestral violist at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Spoleto Festival (Italy) as a member of the National Training Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Shippers and Leon Barzin. As a member of the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, she has recorded movie sound tracks such as Predator II, Ricochet, Soapdish, Jennifer 8, One Fine Day, and Mars Attacks, plus recordings for Kitaro and John Williams in a musical remake of Star Wars themes. Linda was featured as soloist in Berlioz' Harold in Italy in the 1992 Berkeley Symphony season opening concert under the direction of Kent Nagano. In December, 1995 Linda performed Flos Campi by Vaughn Williams with the Berkeley Symphony, conducted by Kent Nagano, and with alto Lorraine Hunt, was featured in the Brahms Songs for alto singer, viola and piano. This was performed at Zellerbach Hall on the same concert with the Vaughn Williams. In March 1995 Linda performed Lachrymae by Benjamin Britten with the Santa Rosa Symphony under the direction of Jeffrey Kahane. In August 1995 Linda performed Mozart's Symphony Concatenate with the Ukiah Symphony. Ms. Ghidossi is currently principal violist with the Berkeley Symphony. She is also currently principal violist with the Santa Rosa Symphony, under the direction of Jeffrey Kahane, and the New Century Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Stuart Canin. In January 1997, Linda performed the world premiere of Theodore Dollarhide's The Cloud of the Nigh and the Wind Are Alone -- a concerto for viola and orchestra. Linda is active as a soloist, free-lance musician and teacher in Sonoma County and the Bay Area. Her recent recordings include three CDs, two with the Berkeley Symphony and The New Century Chamber Orchestra and the third, a Grammy nominated recording of the works of Dmitri Shostakovich with the NCCO, also on the New Albion label. |
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