Formal Concert 2025-02-15

The Fortnightly Music Club In cooperation with The City of Palo Alto Arts and Culture Division
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Road

*guest performers

Pianist Brett Waxdeck grew up in Berkeley, where he began private piano lessons at age 6. His studies continued at Princeton University, Yale University, the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he earned a Masters Degree in Performance in 1997 and won the International Bartok Competition that year. Mr. Waxdeck has performed around the US and in Europe, at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York and at various music festivals, including the Adamant Music School Festival in Vermont and IBLA Festival in Italy. A frequent Fortnightly performer, Mr. Waxdeck has also performed locally for Noontime Concerts in San Francisco, the SF Conservatory of Music, Old First Church Concerts, the West Marin Dance Palace series and at other venues. Mr. Waxdeck serves on the boards of Old First Church Concerts, the Fortnightly Music Club and the San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation. He lives in Mountain View and San Francisco.

Violist Noriko Iwamoto is actively engaged in performing chamber music and teaching the next generation of violists and violinists. She is a graduate of Dominican University of California where she obtained her B.M. Noriko attributes her intuition in music making to her experiences at the Accademia Chigiana in Italy as well as her work with orchestras and ensembles in Japan, Mexico and the US. Her goal, of late, is to expose audiences to more viola repertoire.

Pianist Jean Goyal left her native Singapore in 1985 to begin her American musical journey in Bloomington, Indiana. She earned her B.Mus. in chamber music and piano accompanying, along with an M.A. in musicology from Indiana University, Bloomington. At I.U., she collaborated across the music school, from voice to wind and string studios. She is grateful to have been coached not just by her piano teacher Edward Auer but also by maestros Janos Starker, Josef Gingold, and Csaba Erdelyi. Her Ph.D. (ABD) in musicology from Stanford University was fortuitously interrupted by the birth of her first child. Over time, as her family matured, she rediscovered the joys of performing music and, through performance, returned to her study of music. Jean finds great fulfillment and joy in collaborating with others within the realm of chamber music and embraces every opportunity to share her music with audiences.

Flutist Beverly Radin, born in New York, exhibited her talent early on by winning first prize in a concerto competition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and later claiming another victory at the Henry Flagler Competition. Her conservatory training began with the prep-division of Julliard and culminated with her earning a Master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music where she tutored under the renowned flutist Frances Blaisdell. Additionally, she honed her craft through studies with other flute masters, most notably the celebrated flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Marcel Moyse. Ms. Radin has performed chamber music at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society for Ethical Culture and the New York Historical Society. Her solo recitals have taken her to California, Florida and throughout the New York area. Ms Radin has been a Fellow for the Bach Aria Group Institute at Stony Brook, New York, and has played with orchestras at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and on tour through Italy. She continues to perform in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a founding member of the Encore Chamber Players in Palo Alto. At present she teaches at her Palo Alto studio and even on Zoom to India!

Lucinda Breed Lenicheck, cello, played Principal Cello with Opera San Jose for 32 years and performs free-lance and
chamber music, teaching in her Palo Alto studio. Ms. Lenicheck has taught at Mills College, Stanford University, and San Jose State University. She was former Principal Cello, S.J. Chamber Orchestra and Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus; and taught at Kenyon College, Otterbein College, and Capital University. Her background includes The Banff School, Tanglewood, the Spoleto Festival, and Stanford BA and MA degrees.