Rhonda Rider
Cellist Rhonda Rider is a founding and current member of the Naumburg Award winning Lydian Quartet and the piano trio Triple Helix. An active touring artist, she has been heard as a member of the Lydian at international festivals including Concerts Spirituel de Geneve (Switzerland), Septembre Musique de LOrne (France), the Aspen Music Festival, the American Academy in Rome (Italy), and the US/USSR Contemporary Music Festival (Russia). She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress. As a soloist, Rider has won New Yorks Concert Artists Guild Award and an Aaron Copland Fund Grant for Recording. She has introduced and recorded music by many contemporary composers, among them Elliott Carter, Lee Hyla, Donald Martino and Steve Mackey. Her solo disc of contemporary cello music and her duo recording with pianist, Lois Shapiro have both been cited as Best of the Year in the Boston Globe. Rider has given numerous masterclasses at such school as the Yale School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, New England Conservatory, the University of Oregon, Northwestern University and Princeton. Hailed as Boston's answer to the Beaux Arts Trio (Boston Globe), Triple Helix (Bayla Keyes, violin and Lois Shapiro, piano) has been heard on the BankBoston Emerging Artists Series and was recently awarded a grant from Chamber Music America to commission a new work by composer Lee Hyla. In the 2001-2002 season they will present the complete piano trio of Beethoven with concerts in Boston and Los Angeles. During the summer months Rider has performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Yale Summer School), Music From Salem (NY), Monadnock Music (NH), Tanglewood (MA) and the Token Creek Festival (WI). In addition to her position as Chamber Music Coordinator and cello instructor at the Boston Conservatory she is a member of the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players.