04/22/2026
Hidden Valley Virtuosi present a wonderful Mother's Day brunch, followed by the musical works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Shaw! Sunday 5/10 @13:30 pm. Info & tickets --> https://bit.ly/4tuR8ng
Musician highlight: Christopher Costanza, Cello.
For forty years, Christopher Costanza has enjoyed a varied and exciting career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He has played concerts in nearly every state in the U.S. and in a long list of countries and continents near and far. During the summers, he’s enjoyed collaborating with colleagues at such summer festivals as Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Santa Fe, Taos, and Bravo!Vail. While at New England Conservatory in the 1980’s, he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, received a prestigious Solo Recitalists Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and earned a Bachelor of Music and an Artist Diploma, studying with some of the most inspirational and brilliant musical minds of the century: Laurence Lesser, David Wells, Bernard Greenhouse, Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner, Leonard Shure, and others.
Since 2023, he has taught at Stanford University, teaching cello and chamber music, directs the Stanford Cello Choir, and performs a wide variety of concerts all around the University.
Christopher is fascinated by new and somewhat complex music, admitting that the term “new” is one he uses quite loosely, covering great music ranging from complex late romantic works created over 100 years ago to works that are hot off the presses. One of the highlights of his musical life has been the continuing opportunities to work with so many of the world’s most notable composers, including John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, and Pierre Boulez, as well as several brilliant Stanford University composer colleagues. Back in 1986, Christopher had the immense honor of studying Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” under the guidance of Messiaen himself, during his brief residency at NEC.
