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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

Violinist Susan Lorentsen has been honored and privileged to be a part of the rich New York musical scene for many years. Concerts, Broadway, Chamber Music, Opera, Ballet and Recording are among her many areas of interest. She has performed with every major freelance orchestra in New York, including The American Symphony Orchestra, The New York City Opera, The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Musica Sacra, Solisti and New York Chamber Orchestra. In the classical field Ms. Lorentsen has had the privilege of performing with Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Pinchas Zuckerman, and many others.
On The Great White Way she has appeared in over 20 Broadway shows including Hairspray, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls, Miss Saigon and Carousel. Ms. Lorentsen has been performing The Radio City Christmas Spectacular as a member of The Radio City Music Hall orchestra for over twenty years. Ms. Lorentsen’s violin can be heard on the soundtracks of In and Out, Hercules, and Marvin’s Room. She has recorded with scores of artists as diverse as Keith Jarrett and Jennifer Holliday, and appeared with Stevie Wonder, Julie Andrews, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett, Bjork, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Rod Stewart, Page and Plant, and dozens of other artists. Ms. Lorentsen has also recorded numerous commercial jingles for clients like Nokia, Dominos Pizza, Nexium, GNC and many others.
Susan Lorentsen has been a proud member of the Stamford Symphony Orchestra for over two decades.
Lisa Tipton
Laura Bald
Kathleen Thomson
Martha Brody
Ann GiIllette
Amy Wright
Robert Zubrycki
Nina Simon
David Steinberg
Lisa Steinberg
Suzanne Gilman
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Flute
Liz Mann, principal
Kathleen Nester
Clarinet
Jon Manasse, principal
Dean LeBlanc
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Horn
Lawrence DiBello, principal
Louise Crowley
Peter Reit
David Smith
Trombone
Richard Clark, principal
Kenneth Finn
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
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