Bassoonist who has performed live, recorded, and served on the affiliate faculty of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1985, she and pianist Nancy Bittner performed in recital to help celebrate the sixty-sixth convention of The Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs.
She appeared as a member of the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia on their 1987 Christmas album, Gloria! Gloria!.
On 10th December 1995, she appeared with The Festive Arts Ensemble in the Bucks County Choral Society’s “Festival of Christmas Music” in a live performance of Ottorino Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity at St. John’s United Church of Christ in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
She has also been a mainstay with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra.
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia recordings
Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
RCA 6559-2-RC (Gloria! Gloria!)
Soprano – Benita Valente
The Philadelphia Singers
Conductor – Michael Korn
Here is the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra performing for a production of the French ballet La Falle mal Gardee…
Sources:
- http://articles.mcall.com/1985-05-05/news/2473534_1_music-clubs-philadelphia-orchestra-national-federation
- http://www.buckschoral.org/programs/xmas95a.pdf
- http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/archive/webarchive/ugbulletin96/faculty_music.html
- Liner notes: Gloria! Gloria!