Ms. Ghidossi-Deluca is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she received Bachelor and Master 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 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 Artistās Competition, she performed as 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 at the Spoleto Festival as a member of the National Training Orchestra.

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, and has performed on recordings for Kitaro and John Williams in a musical remake of the Star Wars Themes. Ms. Ghidossi is currently principal violist with the Santa Rosa, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Berkeley and Vallejo symphonies. She is active as a soloist, free lance musician, and teacher in Sonoma county and the Bay Area. Her recent recordings include three CDās, including a Grammy nominated recording of works by Dmitri Shostakovich with the NCCO, on the New Albion label.

In January 1998, through the Santa Rosa Symphony Music Education Program, Linda established the Young Peopleās Chamber Orchestra. A twenty-member (all strings) ensemble, this group is modeled after the New Century Chamber Orchestra, performing without a conductor.