Violin
Erica Kiesewetter, Concertmaster
Sebu Sirinian, principal second
Claire Jolivet

Praised in the New York Times for her "impeccable, thoughtfully shaped, dramatically taut" playing, violinist Claire Jolivet has rapidly established herself as one of this country’s leading interpreters of baroque and early classical repertoire. She maintains a busy career, appearing regularly with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the Northeast, including Sinfonia New York, Sarasa, Repast, Concert Royal, American Classical Orchestra, and the Clarion Society. She is a founding member of the Dodd String Quartet, and was for many years a member of the Four Nations Ensemble, with whom she appeared to critical acclaim on major concert stages throughout the US and abroad. She is the concertmaster of Opera Lafayette in Washington DC and of the New York based Grand Tour Orchestra. She performs regularly with Paris-based Opera Fuoco, and has appeared as a guest with Musica Pacifica, Piffaro, Tafelmusic, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. On modern violin, Ms. Jolivet freelances in the many orchestral ensembles in the New York area, such as the Stamford Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Lukes. She has appeared as violin soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Joseph Kalichstein, Paula Robison and Kathleen Battle. Ms. Jolivet was the founder and Artistic Director of the Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, an organization she steered for over 10 years.She has also been a participant in numerous summer music festivals, including the Boston Early Music Festival, the Bach Aria Festival, the Chautauqua Institute, the Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, the Redwoods Festival (CA) and the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. She began her violin studies in England with Pamela Spofforth and is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She has recorded on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi , ASV – Gaudeamus, and Naxos labels.

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

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