MEMBERS

JANICE MOULTON (VIOLIN)

It was my great-grandfather’s violin that provided my first opportunity of playing music within a group. I was in the fourth grade, and I have been making music with groups ever since. Through high school and college my appreciation and wonder with the collective result of skilled musicians and their varied instruments grew. It served as a sustaining focus of my schooling and provided opportunities that I would not have experienced otherwise. I found no orchestras as a young mother and wife in remote Stanley, Idaho, so I picked up my fiddle, and blue grass became my gig — playing for fun, weddings, tourists and school programs.  When the Wood River Community Orchestra was formed in the fall of 2007, I enthusiastically joined. Being a member of an orchestra still provides me with great satisfaction and my talented fellow musicians have become my friends. I am amazed at the beautiful music friends can make together.

LYNNE HEIDEL (VIOLIN)

I started playing the violin in grade school and continued to play through high school and college. When I was a high school teacher, I continued to play in a community orchestra and with friends. But I put my violin under the bed during law school. Then came children and a busy law practice. When I retired and moved to Sun Valley, one goal was to start playing violin again. After 35 years, I trimmed my fingernails, had my violin spiffed up, and bought a new bow. I blew the dust off my violin exercise books and began to play again. Next, I attended a WRO concert to see if they were either too good for me to join or too bad for me to want to join. I am delighted to say, WRO is just right. The joy of playing in an orchestra is one of the greatest pleasures in my life.

MARIE FOGLI (VIOLIN)  

Marie’s musical education began at McKinley Grammar School in Burlingame, California where lessons and instruments were provide as part of the standard curriculum. She began private lessons at the age of 10 under the able tutelage of Miss Marjorie McFarland. Marie is, however, indebted to Kate Stenberg, her best childhood friend and founding member of the Del Sol Quartet, and Don and Joanne Stenberg for immersing her in, and supporting Marie’s love of classical music.

RICHARD INOUYE (PRINCIPAL CELLO)

Richard grew up near Philadelphia PA and studied with Francis DePasquale. While in high school, Richard played with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Philadelphia Doctors Orchestra, and spent a summer at the Interlochen Music Camp. After having completed degrees in Biology (BA, Reed College) and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (PhD, Univ Arizona), he has played with the Whitewater Opera, the Idaho State Civic Symphony, and the Symphony of the Potomac, and in 2023 joined the Wood River Orchestra. Now retired from a career spent mostly in academia, he looks for opportunities to play music, take river trips, and help his children and grandchildren. Watching beavers shape the landscape, fencing out cows, and work on an off-grid house north of Fairfield ID keep him occupied at other times.

DEDE MORRIS (CELLO)

DeDe discovered the cello at age 8 and they were a team for the next 10 years (when playing music was nerdy). Following a 35-year hiatus, she reconnected with the cello after a bank manager approved a loan for a new instrument. She and Sue Mendelsohn started an orchestra class at WRMS, then created a fledgling orchestra which grew into this great group of cellists, accompanied by other string, brass, woodwind and percussion players – the Wood River Orchestra. “Thanks for supporting us. Cellos rule!!”