Violin
Erica Kiesewetter, Concertmaster
Sebu Sirinian, principal second
Claire Jolivet
Elizabeth Lim-Dutton
Patricia Davis
Gabriel Schaff
Katsuko Esaki
Susan Lorentsen
Lisa Tipton
Laura Bald
Kathleen Thomson
Martha Brody
Ann GiIllette
Amy Wright
Robert Zubrycki
Nina Simon
David Steinberg
Lisa Steinberg
Suzanne Gilman

Viola
Lois Martin, principal
Adria Benjamin
Rebecca Osborne
KC Still
Shelley Holland-Moritz
Laura Mount
Leslie Tomkins
Louis Day

Bass
Judith Sugarman, principal
Peter Weitzner
Richard Ostrovsky
Louise Koby
Troy Rinker

Harp
Amy Berger, principal

Flute
Liz Mann, principal
Kathleen Nester

Clarinet
Jon Manasse, principal
Dean LeBlanc

Horn
Lawrence DiBello, principal
Louise Crowley
Peter Reit
David Smith

Trombone
Richard Clark, principal
Kenneth Finn
John Rojack, bass trombone
 

Timpani
Benjamin Herman, principal

Percussion

Daniel Haskins, principal
Kory Grossman

Cello
Joseph Kimura, principal
Eliot Bailen

Strings Magazine writes, "At Merkin Hall (NYC) cellist Eliot Bailen displayed a warm focused tone, concentrated expressiveness and admirable technical command always at the service of the music” (July, ’99). Eliot Bailen is principal cello of the New York Chamber Ensemble, Westfield Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra New England, Teatro Grattacielo and the New Choral Society. Bailen is founder and Artistic Director of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble whose performances the New York Times has described as “the Platonic ideal of a chamber music concert.” (July, 2005). He also performs regularly with the Saratoga Chamber Players, 'Modern Works, the Sebago-Long Lake and Cape May Chamber Music Festivals and is founder of Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom in New York. He is assistant-principal cello of the Stamford Symphony and appears frequently with leading New York area orchestras such as New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera, American Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He has recorded for Nonesuch, Koch International, Deutche Grammophon, Delos, New World, Beanstalk and Flying Dutchman Records, and has been heard as solo cello in numerous Broadway shows. Mr. Bailen received his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from Yale University and is on the cello and chamber music faculty at Columbia University. He was awarded the 2002 Norman Vincent Peale Arts Award for Positive Thinking, the Slater Entrepreneurial Prize from NYU Stern School, a 1990 Parent’s Choice Award and numerous ASCAP Popular Awards. Mr. Bailen has also received national attention as a prize-winning songwriter for children; his Song to Symphony project which presents children's original work in an orchestral setting was the subject of a 2006 New York Times feature article. Mr. Bailen and his wife, flutist Susan Rotholz, live in New York City with their twin sons David and Daniel and their daughter Julia.

Sarah Carter
Peter Sanders
Jacqueline Stern
Matthew Goeke
Pamela Greitzner

Oboe
Melanie Feld, principal
William Meredith

Bassoon
Marc Goldberg, principal
Maureen Strenge



Trumpet
Donald Batchelder, principal
John Dent



Tuba
Brian Brown, principal

Keyboards
Emily Wong, principal