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The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is among the finest orchestras in the nation. Since its inception in 1959, the MSO exists for three purposes: to comfort, educate, entertain and exhilarate the human soul through events of cultural significance, relevance and artistic challenge; to embrace, preserve and foster our musical heritage; and to enhance the vibrancy of our community. The MSO’s full-time professional musicians perform more than 135 classics, pops, family, education, and community concerts each season in venues throughout the state, and garnered national recognition as the first American orchestra to offer live recordings on iTunes.
Yaniv Dinur is associate conductor of MSO and music director of the New Bedford Symphony in Massachusetts. Born in Jerusalem, Yaniv moved to the US in 2007 to earn his Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting. He has performed with orchestras in Israel, Europe, the US, Canada and Mexico. He has won numerous awards including the 2017 and 2016 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Awards and 2nd Prize at the 2009 Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico. An accomplished pianist and passionate music educator, Yaniv has performed with the MSO in unusual venues such as a planetarium and an unfinished office building in concerts created especially for young professionals, and has also performed in underserved neighborhoods in Milwaukee.
Catherine Lan has been praised as a pianist who “has a fluent technique, sensitive musicianship and a probing intellect”. She received her Bachelor of Music from the University of British-Columbia, Master of Music from Indiana University (Bloomington), and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Miami. Dr. Lan not only conducts master classes in the USA, Singapore, and Thailand, but also serves on the faculty of Broward College. She is a winner of numerous competitions and has concertized at prestigious venues across the US, Canada, China, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Mexico, France, Thailand, United Kingdom, Croatia, and Slovenia.
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Roster
KEN-DAVID MASUR, Music Director Designate,
Polly and Bill Van Dyke Music Director Chair
EDO DE WAART, Music Director Laureate
YANIV DINUR, Associate Conductor
CHERYL FRAZES HILL, Chorus Director,
Margaret Hawkins Chorus Director Chair
TIMOTHY BENSON, Assistant Chorus Director
FIRST VIOLIN
Frank Almond, Concertmaster, Charles &
Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair
Ilana Setapen, Associate Concertmaster
Jeanyi Kim, Associate Concertmaster
Third Chair
Alexander Ayers
Michael Giacobassi
Lynn Horner
Dylana Leung
Chi Li
Yuka Kadota
Lijiia Phang
Margot Schwartz
Karen Smith
SECOND VIOLIN
Jennifer Startt, Principal, Andrea &
Woodrow Leung Second Violin Chair
Timothy Klabunde, Assistant Principal
Glenn Asch
John Bian
Lisa Johnson Fuller
Paul Hauer
Hyewon Kim
Shengnan Li
Laurie Shawger
Mary Terranova
VIOLA
Robert Levine, Principal, Richard O. &
Judith A. Wagner Family
Nicole Sutterfield Assistant Principal,
Friends of Janet F. Ruggeri Viola Chair
Samantha Rodriguez, Assistant Principal
Third Chair
Elizabeth Breslin
Alejandro Duque
Nathan Hackett
Erin H. Pipal
Helen Reich
CELLO
Susan Babini, Principal, Dorothea C.
Mayer Cello Chair
Scott Tisdel, Associate Principal Emeritus
Kathleen Collisson
Madeleine Kabat
Gregory Mathews
Peter Szczepanek
Peter J. Thomas
Adrien Zitoun
BASS
Jon McCullough-Benner, Principal,
Donald B. Abert Bass Chair
Andrew Raciti, Associate Principal
Scott Kreger
Catherine McGinn
Rip Prétat
Laura Snyder
HARP
Principal, Walter Schroeder Harp Chair
FLUTE
Sonora Slocum, Principal, Margaret &
Roy Butter Flute Chair
Heather Zinninger Yarmel, Assistant Principal
Jennifer Bouton Schaub
PICCOLO
Jennifer Bouton Schaub
OBOE
Katherine Young Steele, Principal, Milwaukee Symphony League Oboe Chair
Kevin Pearl, Assistant Principal
Margaret Butler
ENGLISH HORN
Margaret Butler, Philip and Beatrice Blank
English Horn Chair in memoriam to
John Martin
CLARINETS
Todd Levy, Principal, Franklyn Esenberg
Clarinet Chair
Benjamin Adler, Assistant Principal,
Donald and Ruth P. Taylor Assistant
Principal Clarinet Chair*
JJ Koh, Acting Assistant Principal**
William Helmers
E FLAT CLARINET
Benjamin Adler*
JJ Koh, Acting**
BASS CLARINET
William Helmers
BASSOON
Catherine Chen, Principal, Muriel C. and
John D. Silbar Family Bassoon Chair
Rudi Heinrich, Assistant Principal
Beth W. Giacobassi
CONTRABASSOON
Beth W. Giacobassi
HORN
Matthew Annin, Principal, Krause Family
French Horn Chair
Krystof Pipal, Associate Principal
Dietrich Hemann, Andy Nunemaker
French Horn Chair
Darcy Hamlin
Joshua Phillips
TRUMPET
Matthew Ernst, Principal, Walter L. Robb
Family Trumpet Chair
David Cohen, Martin J. Krebs Associate
Principal Trumpet Chair
Alan Campbell, Fred Fuller Trumpet Chair
TROMBONE
Megumi Kanda, Principal, Marjorie
Tiefenthaler Trombone Chair
Kirk Ferguson, Assistant Principal
BASS TROMBONE
John Thevenet, Richard M. Kimball Bass
Trombone Chair
TUBA
Randall Montgomery, Principal*
Matthew Gaunt, Acting Principal**
TIMPANI
Dean Borghesani, Principal
Christopher Riggs, Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION
Robert Klieger, Principal
Christopher Riggs
PIANO
Melitta S. Pick Endowed Chair
*Leave of Absence 2018-19 Season
** Acting member of the Milwaukee
Symphony Orchestra 2018-19 Season
