Violin
Erica Kiesewetter, Concertmaster
Sebu Sirinian, principal second
Claire Jolivet
Elizabeth Lim-Dutton
Patricia Davis
Gabriel Schaff
Katsuko Esaki

Katsuko Esaki was born in Tokyo, Japan. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Musashino Music Academy and a Master's degree from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied with Dorothy Delay. Her other teachers have included Ivan Galamian and Itzhak Perlman.  She is a member of the Little Orchestra Society, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, Stamford Symphony and Arco Ensemble. She is also a member of the Grammy-Award nominated Harmonie Ensemble/New York, with whom she recorded the Dvorak Terzetto on the internationally acclaimed Music& Arts CD “Dvorak Discoveries”.  She also performs with the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater and the New York Pops. She has recorded on the EMI, Musical Heritage Society, RCA Victor, Angel, Nonesuch, Vox, Melos, Koch International Classics, Bridge, Harmonia Mundi and Atlantic Record labels. Katsuko also recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet, and performed with Chick Corea, Garrison Keillor and on Saturday Night Live. She was concertmaster of numerous Broadway shows including Dream Girls and Guys and Dolls. She has toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, the USSR, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. and participated at the Festivals in Aspen, Spoleto, Madeira, and Lacoste (France), along with 20 seasons at the OK Mozart Festival.

Susan Lorentsen
Lisa Tipton
Laura Bald
Kathleen Thomson
Martha Brody
Ann GiIllette
Amy Wright
Robert Zubrycki
Nina Simon
David Steinberg
Lisa Steinberg
Suzanne Gilman

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 Rojak, bass trombone
 

Timpani
Benjamin Herman, principal

Percussion

Daniel Haskins, principal
Kory Grossman

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

Cello
Joseph Kimura, principal
Eliot Bailen
Sarah Carter
Peter Sanders
Jacqueline Stern
Matthew Goeke
Pamela Greitzner

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

Harp
Amy Berger, principal

 

 

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