Rhonda Rider
Join cellist Rhonda Rider, Petrified Forest National Park artist-in-resident, for a night of music from 6 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25, at La Posada Hotel and Gardens, sponsored by the Winslow Arts Trust. The event is free and open to the public. A founding member of the Naumburg Award winning Lydian Quartet, Rider is now a member of the celebrated piano trio Triple Helix. Her chamber music and solo recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards and cited as critic’s choice in both The New York Times and Boston Globe. She has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Chamber Music Series. Dedicated to the performance of “new” music, Rider has premiered and recorded works by such renowned composers as John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Yu-Hui Chang, Bright Sheng and Elliott Carter. She has given numerous master classes at schools including Yale School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, New England Conservatory and Princeton, and served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the American String Teachers’ Association and Chamber Music America. During the summer months, she performs and teaches at festivals including Music from Salem, Green Mountain and ARIA, and is the cello coach for the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong. Each June she holds a cello seminar dedicated to contemporary music in Salem, N.Y. This season she will perform across the U.S. and Asia. Rider holds degrees from Oberlin and Yale. She is currently the Chair of Chamber Music and on the cello faculty at The Boston Conservatory, and on the cello faculty of Boston University.
