Seattle Dance Musician Angela Rinaldi   Angela Rinaldi has been a Dance Musician in the Seattle area since 1979 at Pacific Northwest Ballet, University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts,  Whitman College and Spectrum Dance Theater, to name a few.  She has accompanied ballet and modern dance classes for such notable dance masters as Patricia Barker, Debra Hadley, Magali Messac, Hillary Cartwright, Bill Whitener, Veronica Tenant, Kevin Kaiser, Elaine Bauer and Donald Byrd.  As a trained dancer, herself, Angela’s extensive dance background has given her great insight as a dance musician.  She serves as Principal Accompanist at Spectrum Dance Theater (since 1981) and Dance Musician at Cornish College of the Arts Dance Department (since 1980).  She is a proud member of The Musicians Association of Seattle- Local 76.  Angela resides in Seattle, Wa with her husband, Bob, her twin sister, Katie and their two poodles and two cats. Angela has over twenty five years experience in the theatrical arts and has toured extensively throughout the States and Canada as an actor/director with Missoula Children's Theatre, Prairie Fire Theatre and One Reel, among many others.  Along with performing professionally as a singer and actor, she has composed over 125 songs for several original classic children’s tales for Variety Plus Theater, which she co-founded in 1994 with her husband, Bob.  http://www.varietyplus.org  She composed original music and lyrics for "Pinocchio" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" that is currently touring throughout the Midwest with Prairie Fire Children's Theater.  She has also conducted musical theater workshops and residencies at Youth Theater Northwest, Debut Family Theater, Seattle Center Academy, Seattle Prepatory School, Brookside Elementary, The Evergreen School, Bellevue High School, Issaquah High School, Spectrum Dance Theater and Whitman College. Recently, she music directed and choreographed “West Side Story” , "Grease" and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at Bellevue High School , “Guys and Dolls” at Sammamish High School and choreographed “Kiss Me, Kate” at Issaquah High School.    She is also a corps member as an actor, writer and composer of Events on the Edge, performing Interactive Murder Mysteries, aboard the Royal Argosy Cruises as well as Meet the Biscotti's,  A Mafia  Musical-http://www.meetthebiscottis.com and Caffeine, An Addicitve Musical-http://www.caffeinethemusical.com, both of which she composed the original music.  As a teaching artist at Seattle Children's Theatre for the past six years, teaching musical theatre classes, Angela also directed "Once on This Island, Jr." for Seattle Children's Theatre 2009 Summer Season. Of Special Note:  Since producing my last two ballet CD’s, many instructors suggested recording longer playing tracks and not defining the pieces by the exercise.  So, I decided to put the music together in groups that were easy to choose from, thus calling it:  Dancer’s Choice.  This CD is dedicated, with love, to my  family.  My mom and dad, who gave me the gift of music and to Kate, Joe, Carm, Louise, Al and Bob for their never ending support.  And a special thank you to dancers and teachers that I’ve had the pleasure of sharing my music with over the years and I look forward to many more to come! balletmusica@aol.com Watch this show and more at SyncLive.com