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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

Kathleen Thomson has been a violinist with the Symphony for many years. She is a native of Minneapolis where, as a three-time competition winner, she soloed with the orchestras of Chicago, Green Bay, and her home town.
An avid chamber music lover, she was founding member of both the Palisades Chamber Players and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. She is concertmaster of the Westchester Camerata, first violinist with the Camerata Quartet, and performs regularly with the Saint Georges Quartet and the Golubov Piano Trio.
Kathleen earned a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student of Raphael Bronstein and Ariana Bronne. She performs at Carnegie, Alice Tully, and Avery Fisher Halls, and has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. Followers of contemporary music have heard her at The Kitchen and other venues which present current composers.
Kathleen lives in Irvington, New York, with her husband and two young children.
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