"Home for the Holidays" Concert 2025 - featuring Maestro David Stewart Wiley & Adelaide Trombetta
Tickets are available by mail, online or at the door.
General Admission: $25.00
SMAC Members: $20.00
Smith Mountain Arts Council
PO Box 70
Moneta, Va., 24121
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This event is partially sponsored by Domino’s Pizza
Westlake & Rocky Mount Locations
David Stewart Wiley, Maestro
The RSO board just extended David Stewart Wiley’s contract through 2027 which will make him the longest-tenured Music Director & Conductor in its storied 72-year history. Our Maestro has conducted such distinguished symphonies as Atlanta, Buffalo, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Oregon, Hawaii, and Utah, as well as in dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Wiley enjoys a multi-faceted and in-demand career as guest conductor, pianist, arranger, educator, and chamber music collaborator. Wiley made his triple debut with the Boston Pops as conductor, composer, and piano soloist in Boston’s historic Symphony Hall, and returned to conduct Boston again earlier this year.
Wiley continues to serve in New York with an additional post as Music Director & Conductor of Orchestra Long Island (OLI) — continuing his commitment to education and outreach throughout Long Island since 2001. Wiley also enjoys a special relationship with Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival as Artistic Director, and previously served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Wiley’s tenure with the RSO is a remarkable success story, with consistently stellar reviews, a diverse and impressive list of guest artists and composers, and innovative commissions of new music. Wiley is an engaged and active community partner and recognized celebrity, having been named Roanoke’s “Citizen of the Year” for his outstanding service and outreach. Wiley actively partners with schools and numerous arts and civic organizations, and the RSO & Wiley received a prestigious Distinguished Music Educator Award from Yale University for its partnership with city schools. Wiley was honored by the NAACP as Citizen of the Year in the Arts for his service. He and his wife Leah were honored at the MS Society’s “Dinner of Champions” for their leadership, and Maestro Wiley was honored during his 25th season by the governor and a joint bipartisan resolution in the Virginia house and senate.
David Stewart Wiley won the Aspen Conducting Prize, was Assistant Conductor for the Aspen Music Festival, and was awarded a Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood. Wiley holds both a Doctor and Master of Music in Conducting from Indiana University, a degree in Piano Performance with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a degree in Religion, summa cum laude, from Tufts University. He is a recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Prize for service to the arts and is a Paul Harris Fellow from Rotary International. David and Leah have two sons both currently in college here in the Commonwealth. www.davidstewartwiley.com.
Adelaide Trombetta - Soprano
A graduate of Yale’s prestigious Opera Program, Adelaide made her debut on the Metropolitan Opera stage at age 21, under the direction of Marco Armiliato, as a National Finalist in the renowned Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Since then, soprano Adelaide Muir Trombetta has rapidly gained recognition as a world-class singer and a compelling stage performer, enjoying leading concert and stage engagements throughout the United States and Europe.
Her most notable roles include Musetta in La Bohème, Euridice in Orphée aux enfers, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Abroad, she has enjoyed repeated seasons with the Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi of Milan and Das Verein Opera of Zurich, performing the leading roles of Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe), Euridice (Orphée aux enfers), Ana (The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill), Lilli Vanessi “Katherine” (Kiss Me Kate), and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus). Additionally, she performed while modeling a Gianfranco Ferré designer gown for TaoModa, one of the largest fashion shows in Italy.
Equally comfortable on the concert stage, Adelaide is a regular featured soloist with symphony orchestras, and has received critical acclaim for her renditions of Orff’s Carmina Burana, Fauré’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, among others. In 2018, Adelaide made her Carnegie Hall debut in Weill Recital Hall singing Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with guitarist David Veslocki. Adelaide is also a skilled dancer and has performed several cross-over concerts allowing her to showcase her lesser-known talent, featuring tap, ballroom, and ballet. Adelaide is Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at Liberty University and resides in Lynchburg, VA with her husband and their two daughters.