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 Artistâs 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 CD's, 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 Peopleâs Chamber Orchestra. A twenty-member
(all strings) ensemble, this group is modeled after the
New Century Chamber Orchestra, performing without a conductor.
