Musicians
Lawrence Loh, Music Director, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic
Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Loh is one of the most exciting young talents on the classical music scene today. He was brought to national attention in February 2004 when he substituted last minute for an ailing Charles Dutoit with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conducting Stravinsky’s Petrouchka and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Loh received enthusiastic acclaim from orchestra players, audience members and critics, alike.
Since his appointment as Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in 2005, the orchestra has flourished artistically, defining its reputation as one of the finest regional orchestras in the country. His leadership has attracted such artists as André Watts, Anne Akiko Meyers, Jon Nakamatsu, Zuill Bailey and Sharon Isbin. A champion of early childhood exposure to music, Loh created a family concert series that is dedicated to the youngest of audiences. He is very active in the region as an arts leader and music advocate, and is constantly in demand as a guest speaker and clinician.
As Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Loh works closely with Music Director Manfred Honeck and conducts a wide range of concerts including classical, educational and pops. He is active in the PSO’s Community Engagement and Partnership Concerts, extending the PSO’s reach into other communities. Recent notable concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony include performances of Dvorak’s 7th Symphony, Mendelssohn’s 4th Symphony and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony on a concert featuring violinist Sarah Chang. He made his debut on the main classical series conducting Handel’s Messiah in December 2008. As the conductor of the enormously popular Fiddlesticks Family Series “Bringing Music to the Lives of Children,” Lawrence Loh plays the part of host and conductor. In addition to his duties on the podium, he is an audience favorite in the PSO’s Concert Preludes lecture series, edits radio broadcasts, and makes many public appearances. His association with the PSO began as Assistant Conductor in 2005-2006. He was promoted to Associate Conductor in 2006-2007 and to Resident Conductor in 2007-2008.
Lawrence Loh’s recent guest conducting engagements include his debut with the Seoul Philharmonic and a return engagement with the Dallas Symphony. Other recent guest conducting appearances include the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony and the San Angelo Symphony. He has conducted the symphony orchestras of Portland, Cedar Rapids, Colorado Springs, East Texas, Fort Collins, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Plano, Shreveport, Sioux City, Spokane and Tallahassee among others. He has also led Korea’s Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Yale Philharmonia, Omaha Area Youth Orchestra, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra. His summer appearances include the festivals of Bravo Vail Valley, Breckenridge, Las Vegas and Hot Springs, the Kinhaven Music Academy, the Performing Arts Institute (PA) and the Carnegie Mellon Summer Strings Camp.
Lawrence Loh held the positions of Assistant and Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony from 2001-2005. He led the Dallas Symphony in a variety of classical and educational programs throughout each season including classical subscription. Highlights include impassioned performances of Brahms’ Requiem, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Brahms’ 2nd Symphony.
Prior to his Dallas appointment, Lawrence Loh was appointed by Music Director Marin Alsop to be Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. From 1998-2001, he conducted more than 50 concerts annually, including classical subscription, pops, education, family and outreach programs. While in Denver, he was also Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, the premiere youth orchestra in the Colorado Rocky Mountain Region. Additionally, Mr. Loh served as the Interim Director of Orchestras and Head of the Orchestral Conducting Program at Denver University’s Lamont School of Music in 2000-2001.
In May 1998, Lawrence Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale University, also earning the Eleazar de Carvalho Prize, given to the most outstanding conductor in the Yale graduating class. During his years at Yale, he was chosen to be the Assistant Conductor of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and Apprentice Conductor of the Hot Springs Music Festival. He received further training at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival and School and has additional degrees from Indiana University and the University of Rochester. A dedicated teacher, Mr. Loh held the position of Associate Instructor in Music Theory at Indiana University and, later, that of Teaching Assistant at Yale University in Advanced Hearing, Conducting and Orchestration. He was also the Guest Curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for “What Makes Music?” an interactive exhibit, offering the opportunity to explore the science of music and sound, as well as the role of music in culture.
Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary.
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Erica Kiesewetter, concertmaster
Violinist Erica Kiesewetterhas been the concertmaster of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic since 1992 and has been frequently heard here as soloist.This season she will also be heard performing the Sibelius concerto with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Long Island Philharmonic Orchestra, and in Vivaldi's “Rosignol” concerto with the Stamford Symphony. She also recently performed Andrew Stein’s “Dueling Fiddles” with Amici NY in Oklahoma, and a Martinu concerto with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra .She is the concertmaster of the above orchestras and also of Opera Orchestra of N.Y, and the N.Y. Pops. This past march she performed the North American premiere of two violin pieces by Enric Granados with pianist Douglas Riva, and is currently preparing an edition and recording of these works.
Ms Kiesewetter also is an avid chamber musician and was the first violinist of the Colorado Quartet, garnering prizes at the Evian and Coleman competitions. She was also a member of the Leonardo Trio for 14 years, making a number of recordings and touring the U.S. and Europe. She has been a member of the Perspectives Ensemble, Columbia Synfonietta and numerous others, and for many years toured internationally and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Her chamber music performances have taken her to the Festival Inverno in Brazil, Aldeburgh festival in England, and many others.
Ms. Kiesewetter was educated at the Juilliard School, where she was a teaching assistant to the Juilliard Quartet. She has taught at Columbia University and has done orchestral coaching at Juilliard, Purchase S.U.N.Y., Mannes, and the Bard Conservatory. This past June she inaugurated a new program at the School for Strings Summer Program encouraging students to expand their chamber music experience to a conductorless chamber orchestra. Ms. Kiesewetter is now on the faculty of the Bard Conservatory.
Violin I / Suzanne Gilman, assistant concertmaster
Violin I / Brittany Boulding
Violin I / Bori Choi
Violin I / Yukie Handa
Violin I / Jonathan Kahn
Violin I / Elizabeth Nielsen
Violin I / Alice Poulson
Alice Poulson, violinist, is a busy free-lance musician working in and around the New York City area. She is Principal Second Violin for the Long Island Philharmonic, a member of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Colonial Symphony and Queens Symphony and has performed with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic and Stamford Symphony as well as with opera and ballet companies. Her chamber music experience includes the Cremona Quartet, the Bronx Arts Ensemble and several contemporary music ensembles. She was concertmaster for performances by Johnny Mathis and Natalie Cole, and has worked with and recorded with other popular artists including Liza Minelli, Back Street Boys, Avril Lavigne, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen. She has played Broadway shows including Oliver!, Edwin Drood, and Miss Saigon and appeared in the movie The Money Pit. Alice holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Ariana Bronne and Raphael Bronstein.
Violin I / 
Gabriel Schaff
Gabriel Schaff comes from a strong musical background. His mother was the renowned
Mr. Schaff is a free-lance violinist in the greater
Further from home, Mr. Schaff has performed in
In 2005, Mr. Schaff created the Solo String Quartet with internationally renowned artists, violinist Christopher Collins Lee, violist Tawnya Popoff and cellist Wendy Warner. He is also involved in historical research and conservation of bowed stringed instruments, particularly in the development of the modern bow in
Mr. Schaff makes his home in northeastern
Violin I / Jule Supplee-Sipler
Violin I / 
Fritz Valenches
Violin II / 
Katherine Hannauer, principal
Katherine Hannauer, a New Jersey native, has received critical praise for her “Heart-warming, unaffected, and lyrical” playing. She makes her home in New York City, working with such groups as the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Solisti New York Orchestra, among others. She is Principal Second Violinist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and during the summer she can be found leading the Second Violin section of the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra in Cooperstown, NY.
A featured performer on WQXR’s Young Artists’ Showcase, Ms. Hannauer was invited to participate in the 1989 Carnegie Hall American Music Competition for Violinists. Her many awards include the Edwin Ericson Award, the Brendan Byrne Fellowship, and the Burien Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music.
Ms. Hannauer has also been an active recitalist and performer of chamber music, and in 1996 was presented by Artists International in a debut recital in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, performing works of Stravinsky, Wuorinen, Debussy, and Richard Strauss.
Violin II / 
Leona Nadj, assistant principal*
Leona Nadj lives and works in the NYC metropolitan area as an active freelance violinist. She is busy with many different groups that include NEPA, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Long Island Phil, American Composer's Orchestra, and in the summe, she performs operas with the Glimmerglass Opera upstate NY. She also plays Broadway shows, such as Beauty and the Beast, Phantom of the Opera and Wicked.
She finished Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Master's Degree under the tutelage of Mr. Glenn Dicterow. She was born and raised in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where she began her violin studies, at the age of seven. She still has close ties to Croatia, where she likes to visit, but also play. She just returned from being the Assistant Concertmaster for the Zagreb Philharmonic, which is their biggest orchestra.
Violin II / 
Linda Howard
Violin II / Mary Stephenson
Violin II / Mary Ann Thomas
Violin II / 
Alice Lord
A newcomer to Scranton, violinist Alice Lord has spent the last two seasons in Atlanta, where she played with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, as an extra with the Atlanta Symphony, and as a frequent performer with Chamber Music Atlanta. An active chamber musician, she spent three summers at the Kneisel Hall chamber music festival. Solo performances include concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee, Purchase Symphony Orchestra, and an upcoming performance of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto with the Southwest Symphony in Utah. In 2004, she received her master’s degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in music from SUNY Purchase, where she was a student of Laurie Smukler. Alice also teaches privately and performs frequently with her family.
Violin II / Julie Savignon
Violinist Julie Savignon has established herself as an active soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher. Her performance experiences have taken her to such distinguished venues as the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. where last year, she presented a lecture demonstration with her Sonata Duo partner and published scholar, Cecilia Dunoyer. In March, she traveled to Paris where she performed in recital at the famed Salle Cortot and returned to France for additional performances in August. This year Ms Savignon has recitals scheduled in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, and will travel to Europe for repeat engagements throughout France.
As a chamber musician Ms Savignon has collaborated with such artists as Kenneth Goldsmith, Norman Fischer, Csaba Erdely, Anne Epperson, and Brian Connelly, among others. She has participated in the acclaimed Foothills Chamber Music Festival in Winston-Salem where she recently took part in a concert in homage to the late African-American composer Undine Smith Moore.
Equally comfortable in the orchestral world, Ms. Savignon served as the Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Charlotte Symphony. She has participated is several recordings with the Houston Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach conducting, while serving as a substitute player at the invitation of Mr. Eschenbach. She was a regular player with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra.
Currently, she is associate concertmaster of the Pennsylvania Center Orchestra and a member of the North Eastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Ms. Savignon performs with the Master Chorale of Washington at the Kennedy Center in D.C., as well as the National Cathedral Choral Society orchestra.
Having served on the faculties of both Penn State University and Juniata College, Ms. Savignon's students can be found among the ranks of some of this countries finest music institutions such as the University of Michigan, Hartt School of Music and the University of Maryland. In addition, she has maintained a full private studio of students for the past 8 years.
Ms. Savignon studied in France, at the renowned Conservatoire National in Dijon, where she was awarded First Prize of the Jury by a unanimous vote. While in Europe, Ms Savignon was profiled on several occasions by National French television and featured in live performances and interviews. She completed her academic Baccalaureate Degree in France with honors. Returning to the United States to study with Josef Gingold at Indiana University, she then completed both the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in violin performance at Rice University under the tutelage of Sergiu Luca and Kathleen Winkler.
Violin II / Na Huang
A native of China, Tina Na Huang began studying the violin at the age of seven. She was accepted at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music and won the top prize at the youth competition in china. Tina was the top student at the Shanghai Conservatory, the finest music school in China, earning her Bachelor of Music degree, where she was the principle second violin of the conservatory Orchestra. Currently, Tina is studying with the Shanghai String Quartet, and pursing chamber music experience at the Montclair State university ( NJ ), where Tina is the concertmaster of the University Orchestra. She is also a member of the Albany Symphony and Hadd onfield symphony Orchestra.
Viola / 
Christine Ims, Principal
Viola / Carol Briselli
Viola / 
Valentina Charlap-Evans
Viola / 
David Creswell
Violist David Creswell has been performing in the
As a chamber musician, Mr. Creswell has concertized with such renowned artists as Kathleen Battle, Sidney Harth, and Anthony Newman. His recordings include numerous film scores and popular releases as well as chamber music and projects with music icons David Byrne, Rufus Wainwright, Erasure, Linda Thompson, and Rod Stewart. He was the violist for the original Broadway productions of the Tony Award nominated “Caroline, or Change,” and “The Color Purple,” and currently plays in “South Pacific” at
Mr. Creswell studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Robert Vernon and Heidi Castleman.
Viola 1 / Sadie deWall
Viola / 
Jeannette Garber
Jeannette Garber has been in the viola section since 1975 and lived in Wilkes-Barre since 1965. She came here so her husband could teach music at Wilkes while she taught at Wyoming Seminary Lower School. She did not teach music, however; she was a classroom teacher. She has her MA in the teaching of English from Columbia University Teachers' College.
Jeannette’s undergraduate degree is from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she majored in English Literature while playing in the honors quartet and the orchestra. During my summers she went to Interlochen Music Camp (two years), studied privately with Milton Preeves, the principal violist in the Chicago Symphony, and after graduation she went to Tanglewood for the summer and studied with the first violist in the Boston Symphony. Although she was offered a scholarship to continue studying with him in Boston, her parents thought it wise for her to start earning a living so she got a job with a traveling puppet show that went to elementary schools. The third year of puppet shows she stayed in New York City, which afforded her the chance to study viola again.
Later when her husband was the Associate Conductor of the Tulsa Philharmonic she played in the viola section there for two years. Since moving here she has played in the Williamsport Symphony and has played in other groups in this area including oratorios, chamber groups, including the Birch Hill Consort and quartet performances.
Viola / Katrina Smith
Viola / Lucille Windt
Cello / 
Alberto Parrini, principal
Cello / Nancy Bidlack, assistant principal
Cello / 
Peter Brubaker
Cello / David Calhoun
Cello / 
Kate Spingarn
Cello / 
Marison Espada
Marisol Espada, cellist, has performed with American Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, Lake Placid Sinfonietta, as well as in over 20 Broadway shows. Ms. Espada has been a soloist in Carnegie Hall as part of the Don Shirley Trio. Comfortable in a variety of musical styles, she has performed with Cantor Ida Rae Cahana (Central Synagogue), Ann Carlson (Jacob’s Pillow), Ron Carter, Chuck Mangione, David Murray (Zankel Hall) and Barbra Streisand (’06 Tour). In recent years she has also done numerous cello solo demonstration / performances in NYC Public Schools as part of Music Outreach ®. Ms. Espada is a graduate of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include Ardyth Alton and Scott Ballantyne.
Bass / 
Stephen Groat, principal
Stephen Groat graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1982 and served as Bassist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for two seasons. Freelancing in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas followed, including membership in the Delaware and Reading Symphony Orchestras, as well as substitution in the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1988 he won the position of Principal Bass with the Northeastern PA Philharmonic and served three more seasons with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Stephen currently serves as Principal Bass in the Bach Festival Orchestra of Bethlehem, Lake George Opera Festival, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, and Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, as well as the Northeastern PA Philharmonic. Additional free lance activities include the Pennsylvania Ballet, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Philly Pops, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Classical Symphony, among others.
Bass / 
Domenick Fiore, assistant principal
Bass / Daniel McDougall
A native of California, Mr. McDougall entered The Curtis Institute of Music in 1989 as a double bass major, studying with Roger Scott. While a student, he participated in a number of international music festivals, including Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Music by the Red Sea and Festival dei Due Mondi. Since receiving his Bachelor of Music degree in 1993, he has built a varied career that has included playing Bach in Carnegie Hall, serving as an organist and choir director, and recently, playing harpsichord with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra on its tour of Japan. He is a member of the Delaware Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and Pennsylvania Ballet orchestra, among others. He joined the Curtis staff in 1993; from 2001 to 2004, he served as Director of Student Services and International Student Advisor. Mr. McDougall joined the faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music in 2004, continuing his work on a Career Studies course entitled The 21st Century Musician class.
Bass / Mary Wheelock-Javian
Mary Wheelock Javian (double bass) is an active performing and teaching artist. She performs frequently with the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as the Iris Orchestra in
Flute / Laura Gilbert, principal
Flutist, Laura Gilbert, has performed around the world as chamber musician, soloist, recitalist and guest lecturer. In addition to Aureole, a trio comprised of flute, viola and harp, of which Ms. Gilbert is a founding member, she has performed and toured with Musicians from Marlboro, Alexander Schneider's Brandenburg Ensemble, The Brentano and Saint Lawrence String Quartets, Chamber Music at the 92nd Street "Y", Saint Luke's Ensemble and Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The New York Philharmonic and Speculum Musicae.
Ms. Gilbert also performs frequently in a duo with the Greek guitarist, Antigoni Goni. As advocates of folk-inspired classical music, the duo has commissioned numerous new works, many of which are included on their debut solo disc “From the New Village”, to be released in late 2006, by Koch International Classics.
Ms. Gilbert's extensive discography includes two solo recordings: The Flute Music of Serge Prokofiev (which received rave reviews from Gramophone, Fanfare and American Record Guide); and the Flute Music of Toru Takemitsu - both released by Koch International. In addition to her solo recordings, Aureole has released nine discs on Koch International, the first of which was short-listed for numerous Grammy awards. Ms. Gilbert is a member of the ensemble on Dawn Upshaw's Grammy award winning disc, "The Girl with the Orange Lips".
Ms. Gilbert has served on the flute and chamber music faculties of Peabody Conservatory, Mannes College of Music, Harid Conservatory, Purchase College, The Aaron Copland School at Queens College, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, and Saint Ann's School. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of Monadnock Music. Ms. Gilbert studied with Samuel Baron, Julius Baker and Thomas Nyfenger, and received her Bachelor degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, and New England Conservatory of Music, her diploma and Master of Music, from The Juilliard School, and her Doctorate from SUNY Stony Brook, where she was Samuel Baron’s assistant.
Flute / 
Barbara Hopkins
Flutist Barbara Hopkins enjoys a varied career as performer and teacher. She has been assistant principal flutist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra since 1993, where she has appeared as soloist on both flute and piccolo. A native of Clarks Summit, she has been a member of NEPP since 1987.
Dr. Hopkins is the flute professor at the University of Connecticut. She has released CD, Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano, on the Cardinal Classics label.
Dr. Hopkins received her DMA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook under Samuel Baron, and her MM from the Mannes College of Music under Thomas Nyfenger. She earned her BM at the HarttSchool with John Wion.
Flute/Piccolo / Patricia Zuber
Flutist Patricia Zuber performs with many orchestras in the New York City area, including the American Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, and has appeared with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Japan. She also performs on Broadway, having performed in the productions of Beauty and the Beast, Candide, Swan Lake, Jekyll and Hyde, Ragtime, and La Boheme. She is piccoloist with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, with which she has appeared as a concerto soloist. Ms. Zuber is an avid recitalist, performing solo recitals as well as chamber music. She performs regularly in a flute/percussion duo with her husband, percussionist Gregory Zuber.
Oboe / Robert Ingliss, principal
Robert Ingliss is principal oboe of the American Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphony and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. He tours worldwide with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with whom he has appeared as soloist on several occasions. He has recorded for dozens of labels and appears on numerous soundtracks for film and television. Mr Ingliss teaches oboe at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College and the Brooklyn College Conservatory.
Oboe / Alexandra Knoll
Oboe / Mark Hill
English Horn / Mark Hill
Clarinet / 
Pascal Archer, principal
Pascal Archer is a clarinetist in the New York area, performing with ensembles such as the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Princeton Symphony Orchestra and Brooklyn Philharmonic. Additionally, he is Principal Clarinet of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and acting Principal Clarinet for the Long Island Philharmonic. He is on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division and a teaching artist for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
Originally from Quebec, Canada, Mr. Archer was the First Prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition in both 1996 and 1997, and has performed on Canadian television and radio on several occasions. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Montreal Youth Symphony, Danbury Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia, and the New World Symphony. Mr. Archer has attended several prestigious music festivals in the US and abroad, including the Marlboro Music Festival, the UBS Verbier Orchestra, Monadnock Music Festival, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, Spoleto USA Festival, Pacific Music Festival, and Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Preceding his residency in New York, he was a full time member of the New World Symphony for four years. He has had the opportunity to work with such conductors as Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovitch, David Robertson and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Clarinet II / Matthew Goodman
Matthew Goodman, clarinet, made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1986, as winner of the Artists International Competition. He has since performed as soloist in
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet / Christine MacDonnell
Chris (Christine) MacDonnell, a native of New Jersey, has performed as a soloist and with numerous ensembles and orchestras both home and abroad. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Loyola University New Orleans and her Master of Music degree from The Julliard School in New York. Her teachers include Stanley Drucker, Leon Russianoff, William Blount, and Steve Cohen.
As a soloist and clinician, Ms. MacDonnell has performed throughout the New York metropolitan area, Georgia State University in Atlanta, the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Music outreach programs in New York City, Rio de Janeiro and Portugal. Currently, She is with the Broadway show "The Producers". She has held principal clarinet chairs in the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira in Brazil and Nova Philharmonia Portuguesa in Portugal as well as performed at the White House with the “President’s Own” Marine Band. As a freelance player in New York she has performed with numerous Broadway shows, National Touring productions of Falsettos, Miss Saigon , Phantom of the Opera and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Northeast Philharmonic Orchestra, North Jersey Philharmonic, Opera Northeast, and Queens Symphony.
Principal Bassoon / 
Maureen Strenge
Bassoon II / Gail Ober
Principal Horn / 
Andrea Santana
Horn II / Katy Ambrose
Horn III / Sara Cyrus*
Horn IV / Kimberly Gilman*
Trumpet / 
James Hamlin, principal
Trumpet II / 
John Dent
Trumpet III / Benjamin Aldridge
Principal Trombone / 
Thomas Olcott
Assoc. Prin. Trombone / Richard Clark
Bass Trombone / Jeffrey Caswell
Percussion / 
Robert Nowak, principal
Percussion / 
Steven Mathiesen
Harp André Tarantiles*, principal
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