MUSIC DIRECTOR
Carolyn Kuan
Endowed by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Adam Boyles

FIRST VIOLIN

Leonid Sigal, 
concertmaster
In memory of Paul Rosenblum, HSO Concertmaster,
by Karl & Muriel Fleischmann, Gabriel Halevi

Lisa Rautenberg, 
associate concertmaster

Sooyeon Kim,
assistant concertmaster

Linda Beers

Perry Elliot

Karin Fagerburg 

Romina Kostare

Millie Piekos

Cyrus Stevens

Deborah Tyler
Sponsored by Bob and Frankie Goldfarb

Katalin Viragh

SECOND VIOLIN

Xiaoxuan Shi,
principal

Jaroslaw Lis, 
assistant principal

Martha Kayser

Lu Sun Friedman

Simon Bilyk

Gary Capozziello
Sponsored by Kristen Phillips & Matthew Schreck

Diane Frederickson

Krzysztof Gadawski

Yuri Kharenko-Golduber

Virginia Kramer

Candace M. Lammers

Yinbin Qian

Alicia Rattin

VIOLA

Michael Wheeler, 
principal

Aekyung Kim,
assistant principal
Sponsored by Chloe & Wes Horton

Nick Borghoff

Patricia Daly Vance

Ann Drinan
Sponsored by The Verney Family

Gretchen Frazier

James Gustafson

Bethany Hargreaves

Martha Knieriem

Arthur Masi
Sponsored by Bob Bausmith & Jill Peters-Gee

CELLO

Jia Cao,
assistant principal

Carole Olefsky  
Sponsored by Kristen Phillips & Matthew Schreck

Laura Kane

Cara Cheung

Jennifer Combs

Tom Hudson

Yoonhee Ko

Peter Zay

BASS

Edward R. Rozie, Jr., 
principal  
Sponsored by Brook & Charlotte Jason

Robert Groff, 
assistant principal

Tony Connaway

Joseph Messina

Julianne Russell

Mark Zechel

FLUTE

Barbara A. Hopkins, 
assistant principal

PICCOLO

Jeanne Wilson
Sponsored by Diane and Gary Whitney

OBOE

Heather Taylor, 
principal

Stephen Wade, 
assistant principal
The Claire & Millard Pryor Orchestra Committee Co-Chair

ENGLISH HORN

Marilyn Krentzman

CLARINET

Curt Blood, 
principal

Eddie Sundra*,
assistant principal

Paul Wonjin Cho+,
assistant principal
Sponsored by Chloe & Wes Horton

BASS CLARINET

BASSOON

Yeh-Chi Wang, 
principal

CONTRABASSOON

Rebecca Noreen

HORN

Barbara Hill, 
principal    
The Claire & Millard Pryor Orchestra Committee Co-Chair
Sponsored by Matthew H. Lynch & Susan M. Banks

John Michael Flavetta*, 
assistant principal

Nick Rubenstein+,
assistant principal

Joshua Michal

TRUMPET

Scott McIntosh, 
principal

John Charles Thomas,
assistant principal

Jerry Bryant

TROMBONE

Brian L. Diehl, 
principal

Robert Hoveland,
assistant principal

BASS TROMBONE

TUBA

Stephen B. Perry, 
principal

TIMPANI

Eugene Bozzi, 
principal
Sponsored by Carlotta & Bob Garthwait, Jr.

PERCUSSION

Robert McEwan, 
principal

HARP

Susan Knapp Thomas,
principal

PIANO

STAGE MANAGER

Jeremy Philbin, I.A.T.S.E.

*On leave for the 2021-2022 season

+One-year appointment for the 2021-2022 season

After the first two desks of violins and cellos, and the first desk of violas and basses, the remaining string musicians participate in rotational seating and are listed in alphabetical order. 

AFM Local 400

The musicians of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

Stagehands Local 84 

The Stagehands of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.).