| Patricia Whaley Viola Patricia Whaley, viola, maintains an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, and teacher. She is currently Principal Viola of the new Symphony Silicon Valley, the Modesto Symphony, and Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, as well as a member of the Oakland East Bay Symphony; previously, she was Assistant Principal Viola of the San Jose Symphony Orchestra for 19 years, where she performed the Bay Area premiere of Alessandro Rolla's Viola Concerto. She performs regularly with numerous other Bay Area orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony and Opera, and on chamber music and recital series throughout the region. As a former faculty member of the acclaimed Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, she has performed chamber music with such artists as Franco Gulli and Peter Zazofsky. Ms. Whaley also served as the viola instructor and violist of the resident string quartet at San Jose State University from 1987 through 1996, and continues to teach privately. A lifelong Bay Area resident, she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley and a recipient of two of the University's highest awards in the arts, the Eisner Prize and the Hertz Fellowship; after Berkeley, she received a Master of Music in performance from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where she was a scholarship student of the renowned Karen Tuttle. She makes her home in Oakland, California, with her husband, conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein, and their daughter Elizabeth. |
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