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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
Harp
Amy Berger, principal
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Flute
Liz Mann, principal
Kathleen Nester
Clarinet
Jon Manasse, principal
Dean LeBlanc
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Trombone
Richard Clark, principal
Kenneth Finn

Kenneth Finn, a native of Syracuse, NY, is the trombonist with the New York Symphony Ensemble and the New York Symphonic Brass. He is a member of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Kenn has toured in Japan, Europe, and the United States and recorded with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
His Met Opera recording on the tenor-tuba of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Strauss’ Don Quixote can be found on the DGG label. In the Opera’s 1994-1995 season he was the bass trumpet soloist in Wagner’s Ring Cycle. His recent recording with the New York Symphonic Brass also includes euphonium and bass trumpet arrangements. Finn can also be heard on the bass trumpet with the New York Trumpet Ensemble recording of The Heroic Mr. Handel.
Kenn has appeared with the American Brass Quintet Brass Band in two original instrument Civil War recordings on the baritone horn and solo trombone.
As an active New York City musician, he was in three Broadway musicals: Candide, 1776, and The Music Man. Throughout the summer season, he plays at the Caramoor Music Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Bard Music Festival with the American Symphony Orchestra, and the OK Mozart Festival with the Amici Orchestra.
Kenn studied trombone with Dr. Per Brevig and Doug Edelman of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra while a student at SUNY Purchase and also attended the University of Mimi in Coral Gables, FL.
John Rojak, bass trombone
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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
Oboe
Melanie Feld, principal
William Meredith
Bassoon
Marc Goldberg, principal
Maureen Strenge
Horn
Lawrence DiBello, principal
Louise Crowley
Peter Reit
David Smith
Trumpet
Donald Batchelder, principal
John Dent
Tuba
Brian Brown, principal
Keyboards
Emily Wong, principal