The June and Tom Roberg Chair

    Bonnie Thron joined the North Carolina Symphony as Principal Cello in 2000. She has been a guest artist locally with the Mallarmé Chamber Players and Ciompi Quartet, as well as occasionally joining the Jacobowitz-Larkin Duo to form a clarinet trio called Three For All. In the Washington, D.C. area, she has been a guest artist with the American Chamber Players and the Washington Musica Viva series. Summer engagements have included the East Carolina University Summer Chamber Music Institute and the Sebago Long Lake Music Festival in Maine.
    Previously Thron was a member of the Peabody Trio at the Peabody Institute, and was Assistant Principal Cellist of the Denver Symphony for a season. She has been active with the Apple Hill Chamber Players and has performed concertos with NCS, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Juilliard Orchestra, Panama National Orchestra, and various others.
    Thron received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School. She also received a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and worked for several years as a nurse and as a case manager, during which time she was also a cello teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts.