Music performance
Violin/Viola duet concert in your driveway
- Item Number
- 145
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 320 USD to cocotopotoro
The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to DIABLO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (tax ID 941679591) on behalf of the winner.
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
Matilda Hofman, Diablo Symphony Orchestra (DSO) conductor, and Sara Usher, DSO concertmaster will play lovely duets for your entertainment.
Matilda Hofman has a varied and busy conducting schedule in California and Europe. In Europe she has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Luzern Festival, Paris Autumn Festival, and at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Matilda has worked with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, SWR Sinfonie-orchester, Bochumer Symponiker and Kammerakdemie Potsdam. She has performed alongside Maestro Ingo Metzmacher in many performances of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo. In 2018 she was on the faculty for the soundSCAPE new music festival in Italy. Matilda works with both instrumental and choral groups, and prepared Chorwerk Ruhr for their tremendously successful debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in MusikFest Berlin, with George Benjamin conducting. Upcoming performances include Nono's Prometeo at the Wiener Festwochen 2021. Read more about Matilda here.
Sara Usher, violin, has been a successful freelance performer, chamber musician and teacher since moving to the Bay Area in 1977. She has a BA from Cal State East Bay and the MM from Yale Graduate School of Music. Ms. Usher has served on the board of the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp, and is Grants and Special Projects Director for the SF Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. She directs the HOUSE program in the Oakland Public Schools and is General Manager for the popular RTSO, a bay area orchestra for RT adult amateur string players. She also supports OUSD string programs as a substitute teacher. Sara is in her seventh season as concert master for the Diablo Symphony.
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