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| Audiences respond to the excitement and love of music from Christina, Andria and Blythe, the members of Paradisa!, as the music explodes from their instruments. Imagine thrilling your audience with the musical magic of Paradisa! at your next function. Thanks for the wonderful program. I was so excited to hear you. You selected charts I haven't ever heard before and it got me "wired for 220" as they say. It is astounding how many women were pushing to get their own works out to the public. You did those composers proud tonight! I look forward to hearing you again in the near future with a new roster of unknown compositions. Alban G. "We loved your trio and the whole concept of baroque to jazz. Very powerfully expressive musicians! We look forward to the next performance and will invite some friends next time!" Deborah R.  Christina Steffen, flutist, has appeared as a soloist and with many chamber ensembles throughout Arizona including concerts at the Phoenix Art Museum, Glendale Library, Tubac Center for the Arts, the Scottsdale Arts Festival, the San Tan Arts Festival, Arizona State University and Grand Canyon University. Her performances include the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, many free-lance ensembles, music festivals in Switzerland and England and several CD projects and commercial recordings. She has been on the Performing Artist's Roster for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, serves on the board of the Arizona Flute Society and has many wonderful flute students at Mesa Community College and Paradise Valley Community College. Ms. Steffen received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in flute performance from the University of Arizona School of Music and is currently the artistic director of the Desert Echoes Flute Project. Andria Fennig, Piano
Andria Fennig, piano, received her doctorate of music in piano performance from Arizona State University in 2002. She served as a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Piano and Theory at the University of Hawaii, Manoa in 2001-02. Currently, Ms. Fennig resides in Phoenix, where she is performing extensively nationally and internationally in new music ensembles, Broadway theatre pits, and chamber music organizations. She is serving as Coach-Accompanist with the Arizona Opera Company performing for several educational outreach and fund-raising activities. Highlighted recent performances have included J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Honolulu Symphony, Pictures at an Exhibition with the Phoenix Symphony, and at the PASIC International Conference in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to her classical endeavors, she also regularly performs as a pit musician for several Broadway touring productions including Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sweet Charity, Annie, and Altar Boyz. Ms. Fennig is an avid promoter and performer of avant-garde chamber repertoire performing regularly with KRUSTA, Crossing 32nd Street, and LINKS ensembles: three chamber ensembles devoted to the performance and appreciation of recently composed works for numerous instrumentation combinations. Ms. Fennig presently teaches a large studio of private pupils of all ages and abilities, and is the performance pianist for the Phoenix Metropolitan Men’s Chorus.
 __________________________________Blythe Tretick , Cello___
Blythe Tretick was associate principal cellist of The Phoenix Symphony for many years before joining Paradisa! in 2008. She began her cello studies at age seven. As a student of Janos Starker, she made her solo debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 10 performances of Lalo's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.
Tretick continued her studies with Raya Garbousova and received her bachelor's degree in music from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, Conn. She began her orchestral career with a one-year appointment to the Saint Paul (Minn.) Chamber Orchestra, soloing with them on their Midwestern tours.
In 1978 Tretick was invited to serve on the faculty of Ball State University as a member of the Ars Musica String Quartet. At the same time, she made an acclaimed tour of Italy with the North Carolina String Quartet and was assistant principal cello for the Piedmont (N.C.) Chamber Orchestra. Prior to joining The Phoenix Symphony, Tretick was principal cello for both the Grand Rapids (Mich.Symphony and the Florida Orchestra
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