Musicians & Conductors

Peter Oundjian

Music Director

Christopher Dragon

Resident Conductor

Taylor Martin

Chorus Director

Marin Alsop

Conductor Laureate

Duain Wolfe

Chorus Conductor Laureate

Yumi Hwang-Williams

Concertmaster, Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern Concertmaster Chair​

Claude Sim

Associate Concertmaster

Jory Lane

Assistant Concertmaster

Dmitri Pogorelov

Fixed 4th Chair / First Violin

Kate Arndt

Principal Second Violin

Allegra Wermuth

Assistant Principal Second Violin

Alessandra Jennings Flanagan

Fixed 3rd Chair / Second Violin

Sohyun Ahn

Larisa Fesmire

Thomas Hanulik

John Hilton

Anne-Marie Hoffman

Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels

Deurim Jung*

Dorian Kincaid

Karen Kinzie

Yon Joo Lee

Owen Lin

Susan Paik

Megan Prokes

Delcho Tenev

Annamaria Vasmatzidis

Bradley Watson

Tena White

Wenting Yuan

Basil Vendryes

Principal Viola

Catherine Beeson

Assistant Principal Viola

Mary Cowell

Fixed 3rd Chair Viola

Sumin Cheong

Marsha Holmes

Leah Kovach

Helen McDermott

Kelly Shanafelt

Phillip Stevens

Seoyoen Min

Principal Cello, Fred & Margaret Hoeppner Principal Cello Chair

Chloe Hong

Assistant Principal Cello

Judith McIntyre Galecki

Fixed 3rd Chair Cello

Dakota Cotugno

Danielle Guideri

Thomas Heinrich

Matthew Switzer

Paul van der Sloot

Annamarie Wellems*

Steve Metcalf

Principal Bass

Nicholas Recuber

Assistant Principal Bass

Jesse Fischer

Jeremy Kincaid

Owen Levine

August Ramos

Mary Reed

Brook Ferguson

Principal Flute

Catherine Peterson

Assistant Principal / Second Flute Tom & Noëy Congdon Chair

Julie Thornton

Piccolo / Utility Flute

Peter Cooper

Principal Oboe Irene & David Abosch Chair

Jason Lichtenwalter

English Horn / Utility Oboe

Jason Shafer

Principal Clarinet

Abby Raymond

2nd / Assistant Principal and E-Flat Clarinet

Nick Davies

Bass / Utility Clarinet

Quincey Trojanowski

Principal Bassoon

Tristan Rennie

2nd / Associate Principal Bassoon

Roger Soren

Contrabassoon / Utility Bassoon

Michael Thornton

Principal Horn

Patrick Hodge

Assistant Principal / Utility Horn

Kolio Plachkov

3rd / Associate Principal Horn

Carolyn Kunicki

2nd / Utility Horn

Matthew Eckenhoff

4th / Utility Horn, Sponsored by Friends of Julie Rubsam

Justin Bartels

Principal Trumpet

Philip Hembree

2nd / Associate Principal Trumpet

John Sipher

Principal Trombone

Paul Naslund

2nd / Associate Principal Trombone

Gregory Harper

Third Trombone / Principal Bass Trombone

Stephen Dombrowski

Principal Tuba

Courtney Hershey Bress

Principal Harp

John Kinzie

Principal Percussion

Mingyu Son

Principal Timpani

Steve Hearn

Assistant Principal Timpani

Michael Van Wirt

Lyle Wong

Principal Librarian