Pianos Plus quartet will perform for Redlands’ Spinet music club

The community is invited to the March 10 program at the Contemporary Club.

Pianos Plus quartet will perform for Redlands’ Spinet music club

Pianos Plus, an eight-hand two-piano quartet based in Redlands, will perform 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka St., Redlands.

The concert is one of the Spinet music club’s monthly programs and is co-sponsored by Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library.

The program is free and open to the public.

Pianos Plus has been performing in the Redlands area for more than 25 years, with several changes in membership over the years.

Current members are Dianna Bradley, Mary Lou Jones, Sally Rehfeldt and Nelda Stuck.

Their March 10 program, performed on the Contemporary Club’s two grand pianos, will feature music by Claude Debussy, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Engelbert Humperdinck and Percy Grainger, according to a news release.

Dianna Bradley taught class piano for 22 years and has been a choral director at Redlands’ Cope Middle School. She is accompanist for Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Banning and for the Yucaipa High School and Crafton Hills College choirs and is a staff accompanist at the University of Redlands.

Mary Lou Jones served as executive director of the Redlands Symphony Association in its formative years and has worked in community relations at Plymouth Village retirement community in Redlands. In high school and college, she was a piano student of Fern Nolte Davidson at the College of Idaho. She has taught piano, has served as an accompanist and church pianist and has sung with choral groups.

Sally Rehfeldt, who is organist at First Baptist Church of Redlands, was the organist for more than 40 years at First Presbyterian Church of Redlands, where she also directed choirs and the handbell program. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Redlands and is wedding pianist for Redlands’ Edwards Mansion.

Nelda Stuck taught piano for 30 years, has rung handbells for more than 45 years and has served as an accompanist at First Congregational Church of Redlands. She was community and the arts editor of the Redlands Daily Facts for 22 years and has volunteered for 28 years to get the Museum of Redlands up and running.