Musicians & Conductors

Peter Oundjian

Music Director Designate

Christopher Dragon

Resident Conductor

Wilbur Lin

Associate Conductor

Marin Alsop

Conductor Laureate

Duain Wolfe

Chorus Conductor Laureate

Taylor Martin

Chorus Director Designate

Yumi Hwang-Williams

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

Claude Sim

Associate Concertmaster

Samuel Nebyu*

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

Dorian Kincaid

Karen Kinzie

Owen Lin

Susan Paik

Miroslaw Pastusiak

Paul Primus

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

Marsha Holmes

Leah Kovach

Helen McDermott

Summer Rhodes*

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

Eugene Kim

Matthew Switzer

Steve Metcalf

Principal Bass

Nicholas Recuber

Assistant Principal Bass

John Arnesen

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

Nicholas Tisherman

2nd / Assistant Principal Oboe, Sponsored by Crescendo Society & Jorge-Ayn Riley

Jason Lichtenwalter

English Horn / Utility Oboe

Jason Shafer

Principal Clarinet

Abby Raymond

2nd / Assistant Principal and E-Flat Clarinet

Nick Davies

Bass / Utility Clarinet

Tristan Rennie

Acting Principal Bassoon

Brendon Sill*

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

Patrick Tillery

Assistant Principal / Utility 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

William Hill⁺

Principal Timpani

John Kinzie

Principal Percussion

Steve Hearn

Acting Principal Timpani

Daniel Morris*

Michael Van Wirt

Lyle Wong

Principal Librarian