Rhonda Rider, Cello

A founding member of the Naumburg Award winning Lydian Quartet, with whom she played for over twenty years, cellist Rhonda Rider is currently a member of the celebrated piano trio Triple Helix. An active touring artist, she has been heard at international festivals including Concerts Spirituel de Geneve, American Academy in Rome, and Tanglewood. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Moscow Conservatory, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress. This season she will appear with the Boston Chamber Music Society and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Contemporary Chamber Music Series as well as the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra (Kabalevsky Concerto No.2). She will also serve as a judge of the Stulberg International String Competition and will tour Taiwan giving masterclasses. Dedicated to the performance of "new" music, Rider has premiered and recorded works by such composers as John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Yu Hui Chang, Bright Sheng, and Elliott Carter. 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 served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the American String Teachers' Association, and Chamber Music America. She has also adjudicated at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. During the summer months, she performs and teaches at Music From Salem, Green Mountain Festival, and is the cello coach for the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong. Rider is Chair of Chamber Music and on the cello faculty at The Boston Conservatory. This is her fifth summer with AYO.