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(California 1951- )

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Active in summer music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival where she is both an artist and on the faculty.

1981-2006

(New York 1887- )

Studied at the Peabody Conservatory - Baltimore under J. C. Van Hulsteyn, graduated in 1906. Studied in France 1909-1911. From a musical family, her sister Ethel Abbott was also an orchestral musician. Later taught violin in her home town of Union Springs, New York.

1918-1919

(Kentucky 1887-1976)

thanks to Adams student John Pierce for additional biographical information

While in Cleveland, Adams studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, including with Ernest Bloch for conducting. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory, and after his first service at the Cleveland Orchestra, Eugene Adams returned to study and teach, at the Oberlin Conservatory, graduating in 1933 with his BMus. He previously taught violin at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa ¹³⁶. Adams moved to El Paso, Texas on his doctor's advice, which apparently worked - Eugene Adams lived to age 89. In El Paso, Adams played violin in the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and also taught strings in the Ysleta Indepenent School District of El Paso. He went on to teach at North Texas A&M (Arlington) and perform with the Dallas Symphony beginning in 1935 ¹⁷⁰.

(1937- )

Studied at the Juilliard School BScience, and Columbia University MA. Taught at the Willoughby, Ohio Fine Arts Association in the 1960s. He also wrote highly regarded The Percussionist's Dictionary ¹³⁷ with illustrations and descriptions of the world's percussion instruments.

40 yers of service

(Ohio 1928- )

Studied with Cleveland Principal trumpet Louis Davidson. Adelstein was a long-term teacher at Indiana University 1988-1994.

1960-1988

(Ohio 1884-between 1927 and 1930)

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(Italy 1876-1929) born in Italy, but grew up in Louisville, Kentucky

Dominic (or Dominick) Aldi grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where he played in the Louis Rigo String Orchestra ¹⁷⁷ and the Louisville Symphony as English horn. Dominic Aldi became the first Principal oboe of the Cleveland Orchestra in the 1918-1919 season.  In 1919-1920, Nikolai Sokoloff brought in Philip Kirchner, with whom Sokoloff had played in the Russian Symphony Orchestra of New York about 5 years previously to replace Aldi.  Dominick Aldi then played the English horn of the oboe section for one additional season, 1919-1920.  Dominick Aldi's activities during most of the decade of the 1920s is not evident, although he seems to have returned to Louisville.  However, he died young.  Dominick Aldi, as he was then listed, died in Louisville, Kentucky on October 19, 1929, age only 53.

(Ohio 1921-2000)

Eugene Altschuler in New Orleans 1948

Studied at the Eastman School of Music graduated 1943. Taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music 1984-2000. Owned with this father an advertising agency in Detroit which Eugene Altschuler ran during the 1960s, while he also played studio sessions for Motown recording artists, before returning to the orchestral world in Saint Paul.

(England 1882-circa 1960)

Frank Amor studied first with his musician father Frank Amor Sr. Later, Frank and his son John Amor became workers on the Cleveland Railway Company streetcar system in the 1930s and 1940s.

(Massachusetts 1914- )

Studied at the Eastman School of Music, and a long-time teacher at the Indiana University School of Music.  His son David Anderson is an orchestra string bass musician and a frequent composer of concerti and symphonies.

(France 1884-1975)

  Andraud exercises

Studied at the Paris Conservatoire Premier prix 1900. Taught at the North Texas State University. While in Cincinnati, Albert Andraud started a music publishing business with instruction and exercises for many woodwind and brass instruments, which business he later sold to the Southern Music Company of San Antonio, Texas.

(then Russia, now Lithuania 1883-1965)

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(Michigan 1929- )

Lawrence Agnell as a student

Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus and MMus. Active in music festivals including the Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival (Florida) and the Scotia Festival of Music (Nova Scotia) where he was Music Director in 1997.

In 2015, Lawrence Angell published a book containing interviews and anecdotes of fellow musicians about the Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell: Tales from The Locker Room: An Anecdotal Portrait of George Szell and his Cleveland Orchestra, a fascinating and fun read.

(Pennsylvania 1914-1995)

Studied first with his Italian-born musician father, Louis Angelucci (1889- ) who played French horn in Philadelphia ballet and opera orchestras. Ernani then studeied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1936, where his Cleveland Orchestra French horn brother Louis Angelucci also studied. Brother Rhadames Angelucci became Principal oboe with the Minnesota Orchestra 1937-1984.

1937-1944, 1946-1980

Antal, Jeno (or Jenő Antal)

(Hungary 1901-1981)

Roth Quartet (left to right) Jeno Antal, second, Ferenc Molnar, viola, Janos Scholz, cello, Feri Roth, firSaint Later, famed cellist János Starker replaced Janos Scholz.

Studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Budapest prior to World War 1. Jeno Antal pursued a solo violin career in Paris in 1923-1925, and came to the US in 1926.

1942-1947, 1949-1962

click on the image above to see a photo of the original Roth Quartet, (l to r) Feri Roth first, Jeno Antal second, Janos Scholz, cello, Ferenc Molnar viola

Appleman, Gerald Konrad

(California 1936- )

Studied at the Juilliard School, graduating in 1959 BA in Music. Active in chamber music, particularly the New Jersey Chamber Music Society.  He has also been continuously active in summer music festivals, including the Allegheny Music Festival - Pennsylvania, the Marlboro Festival - Vermont, and the Festival Casals - Puerto Rico.

(1882-1961)

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(Poland 1927- )

David Arben in the 1950s

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1954. Holocaust survivor. After the war, in Munich played for Efrem Zimbalist in a masterclass at the Salzburg Mozarteum, which led to Arben’s invitation to attend the Curtis Institute.

(Ohio 1914-2005)

Studied violin with his high school music teacher in Akron, Ohio.

1950-1965

(Russia 1898- )

Studied at the Imperial Conservatory, St. Petersberg.

(Canada 1943- )

Studied first with his Ukrainian-born violinist father Jay Armin, and later with Josef Gingold at Indiana University 1962-1964. Active in music festivals, including the Stratford Summer Music Festival - Canada.

(Poland 1948- )

Cecylia Arzewski with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Robert Spano accompanying

Father Stanislaw Arzewski was pianist for the Krakow Philharmonic. Studied first with with Eugenia Uminska (1910-1980) of the Krakow Music Academy. in 1957, with the help of Isaac Stern, went to Israel where she studied with Odeon Partos (1907-1977). Then to the Juilliard School in about 1960, followed by the New England Conservatory. Arzewski’s lifelong devotion to Bach led to her recording the complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 2010 (thanks to Paul Krzywicki for information)

1987-1990

(Maine 1958- )

Studied at Boston University BA magna cum laude. Married to cellist wife Linda Atherton, who playes in the Cleveland Chamber Collective and other groups based in Cleveland.

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(Michigan about 1952- )

Second bassoon, sitting next to George Goslee, David McGill, and now John Clouser (also Detroit Symphony Second bassoon about 1972-1981, Goldovsky Opera Company - a touring opera group based in New York City, Virginia Symphony)

Studied at Wayne State University - Detroit BMus Ed.

1981-2011

(Ohio 1901-1976)

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(Austria 1917-1973)

Emigrated to the USA from Vienna via Tunisia in 1939 after the Germany Anschluss into Austria.

Theodore Baar died during the 1973-1974 season on November 27, 1973 ¹⁴⁷.

(France 1889- )

Emigrated to the USA in 1902.

(Ohio 1915-2003)

flute, piccolo (also Cleveland Orchestra 1937-1941, Pittsburgh Symphony 1941-1943, CBS radio Orchestra about 1946-1951, Chicago Symphony 1951-1953, New York Philharmonic 1965-1983)

Studied at the Curtis Institute, graduating class of 1937.

(Canada )

Studied at the Shepherd School of Music - Rice University and the Cleveland Institute of Music MMus in 2000.

thanks for this photo from Jeffrey Selim, friend of Janos Bandy

(also Chicago Symphony cello 1965-1984 under Jean Martinon and Sir Georg Solti)

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(Illinois 1921- )

(Ohio 1928- )

Studied at the Julliard School of Music. He retired to Sarasota, Florida.

44 seasons of service

(Romania 1893-1973)

Barozzi was one of 17 violinists hired for the Boston Symphony 1920-1921 season, following the 1920 BSO musicians strike. After leaving the BSO, Barozzi pursued a solo violin career, playing in Carnegie Hall in 1924, and with the Reading Symphony - Pennsylvania in 1926 and 1927. New York reviews were mildly favorable: "...as an artist, be still avoids summits of musical thought, preferring the sunlit foothills..." said the New York Times ⁵⁷.

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Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1997. From a musical family, both parents are oboe players.

sadly, Charles Barr, an active bicyclist was hit and killed on August 11, 2006. Contributions to endow a named chair to honor him can be made to the Charles Barr Memorial Chair at The Cleveland Orchestra.

Assistant Concertmaster 1949-1959, violin 1959-1979

(California 1884-1977)

Studied first with his German-born father Robert Barton who emigrated from Hannover, Germany to Fresno, California where he built the Barton Opera House. Leland and his brothers Robert Jr. and Clarence first played in the Barton Opera House and the brothers went on to become San Francisco theater musicians.

1924-1925

(Minnesota 1883-1971)

Frank Bassett was also an active bird watcher.

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(Italy 1888-after 1931)

Taught trombone at the Curtis Institute in 1930. When in Philadelphia, according to trombonist Harold McKinney, Simone Belgiorno "only lasted 14 weeks with Stokowski...", so apparently did not finish the 1930-1931 season in which Stokowski fired a dozen other orchestra musicians.

(then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia 1942- )

photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com

Studied at the University of Bratislava - Slovakia Master in music performance.

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1927-1928

(Michigan 1941- )

Studied at Cass Technical High School in Detroit in 1958, and as a graduate student, violin at the University of Iowa in 1964-1965.

photograph by Nannette Bedway

Studied at the Conservatoire de Montréal, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Recorded Café Music by Paul Schoenfield (Innova Recordings) and Leonard Bernstein's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (NAXOS).

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(1934- )

Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus and Performer's Certificate, and University of Illinois Master of Science. Teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Conservatory of Music - Oberlin College - Ohio.

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(1904-1979)

Studied first with his Czech musician parents Joseph and Anna Blabolil. Charles Blabolil taught at the Hruby Conservatory of Music, Cleveland in 1924 with the Hruby family.

(Lithuania 1896- )

(Ohio 1926-2019)

Studied with James Chambers, later Principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. In 1985 Myron Bloom was appointed Professor of Horn at Indiana University. He was long time on the on the IU faculty and died in Bloomington, Indiana on September 26, 2019, age 93.

1946-1947

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(Switzerland 1894-1976)

Daniel Bonade at the time of the Cleveland Orchestra

Studied at the Paris Conservatoire, Premier prix in the 1913 Concour. Taught many orchestral clarinetists at the Curtis Institute, the Cleveland Institute of Music and at the Juilliard School.

Daniel Bonade circa 1950

(Ohio 1867-1936)

Studied first with his German-born father Charles F. Boos who was a music teacher and Civil War band leader of the 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Band.

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(Illinois 1893-1942)

(North Dakota 1983- )

Studied at the Shepherd School of Music - Rice University BMus and the Juilliard School MMus. Gave US premiere of the Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ) The Soul is Light, for oboe, violin, and harp.

(Pennsylvania 1898-1969)

Studied at the Philadelphia Musical Academy about 1915-1918. Bornstein later became a sessions musician in New York City in the 1940s.

(Italy 1882- )

(Ohio 1907-1974)

trombone

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1932, same class as John Coffee, bass trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra and of the Boston Symphony.

(Wisconsin 1902-1964) died age only 61

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(Ohio 1915-2009)

Studied at the Oberlin College - Conservatory of Music as a teen, then she studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and later the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music.

(Italy )

violin (also Chicago Symphony violin 1959-1961)

(Illinois 1921-1989)

Studied at the Eastman School of Music. Taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

(Ohio 1963- )

Born in Cleveland but grew up in Tucson

Studied in Vienna at Vienna at the Musikgymnasium and the Hochschule für Musik. Also Cleveland Institute of Music BMus 1985. She is also active in local musical education.

Colby String Quartet

(Missouri 1951- )

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1973, University of Buffalo, Eastman School MMus 1977. Also active in music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado) and the Grand Teton Music Festival (Wyoming).

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(England 1885-1966)

Studied at the Royal Academy of Music - London in the 1910s, where he also later taught. During World War 1, Alfred Brain joined the Scots Guards, and was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal for bravery. He is said to have preferred a small bore horn manufactured in France.

Dennis Brain, Alfred Brain and Leonard Brain in Los Angeles in wartime 1945 during the 1944-1945 US tour of the Royal Air Force Central Band with Dennis and Leonard Brain.

(New York 1958- )

Cleveland Institute of Music BMus 1979 MMus 1980.

1984-1993

(Russia - now Ukraine 1896- )

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(Illinois 1913-2004)

Frank Brouk, left with Roy Waas in Cleveland, 1949

Son of Bohemian immigrants, Brouk studied with fellow Bohemian Frank Kryl in Chicago, and with Louis Dufrasne who also taught CSO horns Philip Farkas, Helen Kotas, and Clyde Miller. Brouk was joint owner of the Carl Geyer horn store in Chicago.

Robert H. Brown in 1921

(Ohio 1904-1966)

With his fellow WTAM radio musicians who were Cleveland Orchestra musicians, he formed in 1931 the Fine Arts String Quartet: Walberg Brown first, Ben Silverberg second, Theodore Rautenberg viola, Erwin Goetsch cello.

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(Philadelphia 1928- )

Studied at Philadelphia Musical Academy and the Curtis Institute Class of 1943.

bassoon 1936-1952, contrabassoon 1936-1960

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(1889-1979)

(Ohio 1889-1973)

1914 Picture supplied by Derek Cahill

Studied at at Hiram College - Ohio. Taught at the Lakewood School of Music - Ohio, the Conservatory of Baldwin-Wallace College - Ohio, Rice University - Texas. For much of his adult life, Cahill earned his living as an accountant, while maintaining a musical life through his violin teaching.

(France 1900-1977)

Emigrated to the US from Paris in September 1923.

(Louisiana 1947- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Active in youth teaching, including the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and in her home town with the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, where she also played.

1979-August 2011

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1942-1943

(Brazil 1978- )

Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 2000, New England Conservatory. Teaches at Cleveland State University School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Active at summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival - Colorado.

spring 2001-present

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(1912-1973) died at age 60 from injuries from an auto accident.

Taught at the Yale University School of Music.

1942-1943

(Italy 1887-1975)

Arthur Cerino in 1921

Cerino emigrated to New York City in 1907. US Army 1918-1919 and was buried in the national cemetery on Long Island, New York.

1919-1920, 1925-1927

Arthur Cerino from a 1938 NBC Symphony publicity drawing ¹⁴⁵

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(Canada 1961- )

Martin Chalifour in Los Angeles

Studied at the Montréal Conservatoire 1973-1979, admitted to the Curtis Institute in 1981, where he graduated in the Class of 1984. Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition - Moscow in 1986, laureate of the Montreal International Competition in 1987.

(Alabama 1908-2008) long serving and long-lived

Served under the first six Conductors of the Cleveland Orchestra: Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel. Famous for both her musicianship and her salty toung. Tought at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory, the Conservatory at Baldwin-Wallace College and for more than 50 years at the Salzedo Harp Colony - Maine.

43 seasons of service.

(Korea 1976- )

photo: Roger Mastroianni

She moved from Korea to Iowa as a student, and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music earning her BMus and MMus. Faculty member of the Cleveland Institute 2003-present.

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1920-1921

Studied at the Lyon Conservatoire. Came to US as part of a French good-will tour of the Garde Republicaine Band, summer 1918.

1920-1921

1974-September 2008

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Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1949.

(Italy 1913-after 2001)

Studied at the Naples Conservatory - Italy graduating in 1930.

(Italy 1879-1957)

Emigrated to the US in 1890 at age 11.

1918-1928

(New York 1922-1966)

Died in Montréal, Québec suddenly in 1966, age only 43.

1943-1947

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(Ohio 1869- )

(Illinois 1881- )

Lead trombone in a long list of Chicago bands prior to World War 1: T. P. Brooke Band, Johnny Hand Band (successor to the John A. Hand Band), Weldon's Band (Second Regiment Band of Chicago).

1920-1926

(Ohio 1884-1967)

thanks to his student Bruce E. McGarvey for photo

Clarke was an active music teacher in Cuyahoga County, Ohio Cleveland public schools, including at Lakewood, East High School and Lincoln High School.

1918-1922

(Tennessee 1966- )

Studied at Rice University Shepherd School of Music, the Saint Louis Conservatory, and the University of Tennessee. Also active in music festivals, including the Grand Teton Music Festival (Wyoming), the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds (Italy)

1996-present

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1958. also Cleveland Institute of Music MMus 1960.

1959-1961, 1963-1967

(Massachusetts 1962- )

Studied at Gordon College - Massachusetts, and at Temple University - Philadelphia with Philadelphia Orchestra Principal bassoon Bernard Garfield.

1997-present

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(Massachusetts 1907-1981)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1932, same class as Guy Boswell , trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra. Doug Yeo, Bass trombone of the Boston Symphony wrote: "Bartok >Concerto for Orchestra was first performed in 1944, with John Coffey being the first bass trombonist to negotiate the gliss from low B to F.  (visit Doug Yeo's excellent site www.yeodoug.com )

(New York 1946- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

His early clarinet instructors included two Cleveland Principal clarinets, Aaron Gorodner, then at the Juilliard School including with Bernard Portnoy. First Prize winner, Clarinet at ARD Music Competition, Munich 1968. Head of Clarinet Department ⁵⁸ at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Recorded, with violinist daughter Diana, Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ): Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind in the version for klezmer-style clarinet & quartet on Franklin Cohen CD label (see at right). 

He performed during 39 years of service. Cleveland press reported in late 2014 ¹⁶² tension between Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. This seems to have been a factor in Mr. Cohen's decision to retire at the end of the 2014-2015 season.

39 years of service, although Cleveland press reported in late 2014 ¹⁶² tension between Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. This seems to have been a factor in Mr. Cohen's decision to retire at the end of the 2014-2015 season.

(Michigan about 1968- )

Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy winning a Young Artist Award. Then studied at Indiana University BMus, and the Cleveland Institute of Music MMus 1995. Hers is a musical family, including her husband Jonathan Fields trumpet player, and their three children each of whom plays at least one instrument.

(Ohio 1914-1971)

photo thanks to daughter Marilyn Collins Lewis

Studied at The Cleveland Institute of Music where his teacher recommended him to Artur Rodzinski.

(Ohio 1984- )

photo: Cleveland Orchestra

Studied first with his musician parents: violinist mother Sandy Collins and father Philip Collins, Cincinnati Symphony Principal trumpet. At the Cleveland Institute of Music, studied with his predecessor as Cleveland Orchestra Principal viola, Robert Vernon earning BMus in 2007. Active in summer music festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Center, the Sarasota Music Festival (Florida), the Encore School for Strings (Ohio), and the Pacific Music Festival (Japan).

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Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1976 (he was also offered a scholarship at the Juilliard School, but selected Curtis ⁸⁸).

1988-present

(New Jersey 1898-1981)

Cooley from a 1938 NBC Symphony publicity drawing ¹⁴⁵

Studied at the Philadelphia Musical Academy and at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). Cooley also recorded with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra his own composition: the Aria and Dance for Viola and Orchestra, which Nikolai Sokoloff had also performed in 1926 with the Cleveland Orchestra.

1920-1937

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Studied at the Music Academy of the West - California in 1950. University of California, Royal Academy of Music - London, Conservatoire de Paris. Taught at the Conservatory of Oberlin College.

1956-1959 1965-1966

(Belgium 1867- )

(Pennsylvania 1955- )

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Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. From a musical family, his brother William Henry Curry is Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony.

(then Austria-Hungary, now Hungary 1886-1980)

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So: Darling, d'Auberge, Davidson, de Bona

As specified by the MLA Handbook

(Australia 1930- )

Studied at the Royal Schools of Music, London 1950-1952. Patricia O'Carroll and Maureen O'Carroll were musicians in the New Zealand National Orchestra. As a student, Cathleen O'Carroll gave recitals with the young Joan Sutherland. Cathleen O'Carroll Dalschaert and Stephane Dalschaert toured together in Europe and then Joined the New Orleans Symphony in the late 1950s, the Cleveland Orchestra together 1960-1967 and then the Philadelphia Orchestra.

1960-1967

(Belgium 1930-2007)

Born into a musical family with his 7 siblings all playing instruments, he studied at the Brussels Conservatoire. Well-known as a crafter of violin bows.

(Massachusetts 1977- )

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Damoulakis studied at the Manhattan School of Music. He is also active in summer music festivals, including the Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, the Pacific Music Festival - California and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony - Idaho. With the New World Symphony, he recorded White Mares of the Moon by Dan Welcher (1948- ) Texas based composer who also studied at the Manhattan School of Music - see the CD at right.

(Ohio 1939- )

photo by Herbert Ascherman visit www.ascherman.com

Studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky. Also taught at at the Conservatory - Baldwin-Wallace College - Ohio for three decades.

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(New York 1912-1999)

In 1941, Louis Davidson joined several other first chair musicians, including Merritt Dittert trombone, Rudolph Puletz horn, Leonard Sharrow bassoon, and John Coffey bass trombone to go to Argentina to play under Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Colon.

1935-1958

(California 1891-after 1969)

Studied at the University of California, Berkeley about 1908-1911.

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1960.

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(1955- )

Studied at Kent State University BMus Ed, Cleveland Institute of Music MMus. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Alan deMattia has also been active in music festivals, including the 34th International Horn Symposium of the International Horn Society, held in Lahti, Finland.

(Ohio 1884-1946)

violin 1919-1920, viola 1920-1921, 1922-1923

1919-1921, 1922-1923

(New York 1911-2000)

Studied first with his violinist father Henry Denecke Sr., a theater orchestra musician in New York City.

(Russia - now Uzbekistan 1950- )

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Studied at the Leningrad Conservatory MMus.

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(Illinois 1910-1996)

Old newspaper photo: 1962 Abilene Philharmonic

Denoff taught music in the Abilene, Texas school system in the 1950s and 1960s.

1945-1946

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1994, Indiana University. Active in the Marlboro Music Festival for 4 years, Caramoor Festival - New York, Evian Music Festival - France, Las Vegas Music Festival.

March 1999-2007

(Italy 1891-1962)

Frank de Polis in 1921

Emigrated to the US in 1910 from Abruzzo in central Italy

(Ohio 1944- )

Studied at Ithaca College BMus Ed 1966, Eastman School of Music MMus.

(Italy 1880-prior to 1960)

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(Hungary 1898-1991)

Studied at the Royal Academy, Budapest about 1912-1915, studying violin and with Zoltan Kodaly, he studied composition

1943-1949

(Washington 1968- )

photo: Scott Shaw - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Studied at Northwestern University. A musical family, his wife Amber is a violinist in the Akron Symphony - Ohio, his daughter, Isabel a cellist, and his son Xavier also plays the string bass.

1997-present

(Illinois 1903-1973)

photo circa 1962 courtesy of his son Ronald Dittert

In 1941, Merritt Dittert joined several other first chair musicians, including John Coffey bass trombone, Louis Davidson trumpet, Leonard Sharrow bassoon, and Rudolph Puletz horn to go to Argentina to play under Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Colon.

1937-1968

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photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music BMus 2002, Rice University - Shepherd School of Music MMus 2007.

May 2007-present

In the 1920-1921 season in which John d'Orio played, the horn lineup was Wendell Hoss, Morris Speinson, Alphonse J. Pelletier, John d'Orio and Robert H. Brown.

1920-1921

(Illinois 1884-1954)

William Dosch as Librarian

Died during the 1953-1954 season on March 21, 1954 following surgery.

1923-1954

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(Oregon 1925-2020)

Warren Downes in 1985

Studied at the Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio) and the Eastman School of Music. In Madison, he was an active contributor to publications and to movements supportive of improving the environment.

(1896-)

(New York 1906-1975)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1930. Drexler also studied with Georges Barrère in New York City. Drexler was active in summer music festivals, including the Ojai Music Festival - California.

(Pennsylvania 1918-2007)

Julius Drossin, left with follow composer and long-time Cleveland Orchestra program annotator Klaus George Roy

Studied at the University of Pennsylvania with Harl McDonald BMus 1938; Western Reserve University - Cleveland MA 1951, Ph.D. 1956. Dr. Drossin was Chairman of the Music Department of Cleveland State University and was an active composer including of the opera Spinoza. Chairman of the Cleveland Composers' Guild.

1948-1957

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Emigrating from Russia as an infant, began studied in 1930 with Cuban violinist and composer Amadeo Roldán (1900-1939)⁸⁵. Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1942. After Cleveland, Rafael Druian taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, and later at Boston University and finally at his alma mater, the Curtis Institute.

1960-1969

Studied at the Curtis Institute with Oscar Schwar, graduating in the Class of 1938. A famous event: Joe Adato tells of a performance of the Strauss Symphonia Domestica in 1962. The timpani part has a a D-major scale pedaled across the two center drums. "Just as the orchestra arrived at that passage, the head on the 28-inch drum broke! Cloyd still managed to play the rest of the composition with only three working drums. I might add that he played it better with three drums than most timpanists can play it with four..."

1942-1981

Dufrasne was a famous horn teacher, students including Philip Farkas, Helen Kotas, Clyde Miller and Frank Brouk, future Principal horns of leading orchestras including Chicago, Dallas and Cleveland.

1922-1925

(France 1874-after 1951)

Poor quality passport photo of Gaston Duhamel in 1923

Taught at the Cincinnati Conservatory abpout 1903-1922, and at the Eastman School of Music 1922-1926.

1929-1930

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(Florida 1976- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the New England Conservatory BMus 1998. Granted a Fulbright scholarship, she studied at the Royal Conservatory - The Hague, Netherlands MMus 2000. Active in Summer festivals, including the Interlochen Festival, Encore School for Strings - Ohio, Sarasota Music Festival - Florida, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival - Germany, and the Academy of Twentieth Century Music.

August 2010-present

cousin of Mark Dumm

As a student Eastern Music Festival - North Carolina, and studied at the Eastman School of Music performers certificate, BMus, MMus.

1986-present

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Juilliard School and Indiana University.

1985-present

Studied at at Ohio State University, and the Curtis Institute Class of 1959, the same class as violinists Jaime Laredo and Jerome Rosen, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

1961-1967

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Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

1928-1936

with Louis Edlin, right with Victor de Gomez, Principal cello, left

Studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Guillaume Rémy 1906-1908, and went to Berlin in 1909-1910 where he was one of two official students of Fritz Kreisler (the other being Samuel Dushkin) ².

March, 1919 ²-1923

(Germany 1935- )

Studied at the Musikhochschule - Stuttgart, Germany Artist's Diploma in 1961.

1967-May 2008

(Wisconsin 1883-after 1950)

Studied cello in Germany with Carl Schroeder (1848-1935).

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(Michigan 1978- )

Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 2000 and the Cleveland Institute of Music MMus 2003. Also active in Summer music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West - California, Sarasota Music Festival - Florida, and Spoleto USA - South Carolina.

February 2007-present

Studied at the University of Iowa. Teaches at the Juilliard School.

Epstein studied at the Settlement Music School, Philadelphia and later at theEastman School of Music. Active in music festivals including the Aspen Festival (Colorado) and the Burkshire Music Festival (Tanglewood). He taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music 1989-2005 and at the New England Conservatory 2005-present. He was on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West 2005-2013.

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(Pennsylvania 1931-2016)

photo: Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1983

Studied at the Studied Tanglewood Music Center summer 1948, and the Settlement School of Music - Philadelphia, Philadelphia Musical Academy, the Curtis Institute Class of 1952. Made a concert tour of Europe in 1954-1955. Among his fine recordings were the Leon Kirchner: Concerto For Violin, Cello And Piano with Gilbert Kalish piano and Malcolm Lowe violin, the Nutcracker and the American Album with Seiji Ozawa (see right)

Studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and the Performing Arts with Arnold Rosé. Felix Eyle is shown at left with his Guadagnini violin which had belonged to Mahler's niece and Arnold Rosé's wife Alma Rosé. For more than a decade, and into his mid-eighties, Felix Eyle taught violin at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York 1973-1986.

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(Ohio 1903-1970)

(Michigan 1935- )

(Illinois 1914-1992)

1941-1945, 1946-1947

Philip Farkas in 1940, age 26

(Ohio 1893-after 1968)

(New York 1929- )

Taught at University of California - Berkeley, Stanford University and San Francisco State University.

1954-1956

(Russia 1900-1978)

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(Washington DC? 1938- )

Studied at the Eastman School of Music: Performer's Certificate and BMusEd and at the American University - Washington MMusicology.  Teaches at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, and is an active composer.

1968-1970

(then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic 1913-2011)

Studied first in Prague, coming to the US in 1929. Gerhard Samuel, conductor of the Oakland Symphony - California said that the violinist Eugenia Newman, Linda Ashworth, and Ernestine [Chihuaria] Riedel all had agreed to join the Oakland Symphony, when Josef Krips appointed them in San Francisco all after a November, 1964 audition ²⁰⁶. Famous story: San Francisco conductor Josef Krips said to his Concertmaster, Jacob Krachmalnik "One thing, Jake, let's not hire any women" They went to auditions and Krachmalnik said, "Well, Maestro, I've heard hundreds of auditions but never three in a row as good as those three women." Krips agreed and Linda Ashworth, Ernestine Riedel, and Eugenia Newman were hired.

(then Russia, now Belarus 1897-1966)

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(Russia 1877- )

(Wisconsin about 1962- )

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Studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music BMus in 1983 and the Juilliard School MMus. Active in chamber music recitals, including with her husband, pianist and composer Nicolas Underhill.

1989-present

(Italy 1885-1964)

Gerald Fiore in 1920

Donald Rosenberg in his The Cleveland Orchestra Story ¹ recounted:

"...The orchestra's loquacious principal bass, Gerald Fiore...finally had enough after he again tried to convince Rodzinski to restore some of his lost salary [after a salary freeze]. Rodzinski didn't budge on Fiore, who left soon after to become principal bass of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra..." ¹⁷⁴

(Italy 1882-1928)

Emigrated to the USA in 1895.

(Italy 1888-1970)

Salvatore Fiore in 1912

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(South Carolina 1968- ) born in South Carolina, grew up in North Carolina

Studied in high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts 2 years, and at the Interlochen Arts Academy - Michigan 2 years. then at the Curtis Institute Class of 1992. As a student, also played with the New World Symphony - Florida. In summers, active in the Santa Fe Opera Company - New Mexico and in other summer music festivals, including the Sun Valley Summer Symphony - Idaho where he has been Principal oboe for several seasons.

(Wisconsin 1948- ) grew up in New York

Fischthal on Japan tour while still a student

(New York 1947- )

Studied first with his father, Theodore Flowerman Principal double bass of the New York City Ballet, and then for one year at the Juilliard School From his interest in pre-baroque, he published Music from the Renaissance and the Baroque: Quartets for Double Basses.

44 seasons of service

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(New York 1962- )

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus 1986. Started Freer Percussion Products to make percussion products embodying his ideas as to percussion sound.

(Maryland 1904-1970)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1932.

1937-1939

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(Belgium 1906-1978)

Studied first with his violinist father before taking up the cello.  Then studied cello at the Begian Royal Conservatory. Taught at the University of Texas, Austin 1964-late 1960s.

(China 1984- )

Studied at the Shanghai Conservatory BMus and the Shepherd School of Music - Rice University MMus, where he has also studied for his Doctorate. Active in music festivals, including the Taos Chamber Music Festival - New Mexico 2008 and the Marlboro Music Festival - Vermont 2010.

2011-2013

Appointed Associate Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra beginning 2013-2014

(New York 1909-1986)

Studied first with his gifted father Phillip Fuchs, then admitted to the Juilliard Graduate School under a scholarship in 1932-1935 ⁹⁷. When George Szell selected Ernst Silberstein to become Principal cello 1947-1948, Harry Fuchs departed for two seasons. Harry Fuchs returned to the Cleveland Orchestra as Assistant Principal cello in 1949-1950, and retired in 1979 after 45 years service.

1937-1947, 1949-1979

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(New York 1899-1997)

photo: Peter Kaufmann

Studied first with his gifted father Phillip Fuchs, then admitted to the Institute of Musical Arts (Juilliard) 1907-1919 ⁹⁷.  Joseph Fuchs then went to Berlin in 1921-1922 to study. Joseph Fuchs premiered the Martinu Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola (1947) and the Walter Piston Second Violin Concerto, which Fuchs commissioned.

(Japan about 1972- )

violin (as a student, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago Concertmaster, also Chicago Symphony violin 2000-present. active in chamber music, Funakoshi played in the Cleveland Orchestra chamber music series and the Chicago Chamber Musicians)

Studied at the Tokyo College of Music BMus. Active in music festivals, including the Kurashiki Music Festival - Japan. Participated in two orchestral tours: Thüringer Philharmonic 1993 tour of Germany and the 1993 US tour of her music school, the Tokyo College of Music Symphony Orchestra.

1998-2000

(Ohio 1905-1984)

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Funkhouser played under the first six Conductors of the Cleveland Orchestra: Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi.

55 seasons of service

(Japan 1946- )

Studied at Indiana University with Josef Gingold 1968-1971. She was also teaching at the University of Wisconsin - Racine.

1971-2005

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(Italy 1903-1972)

Joseph Gallo studied first with his violinist father of the San Carlo Opera in Naples. In Boston, he taught violin in the 1930s and studied at the New England Conservatory in about 1932.

(Pennsylvania 1904- )

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

1930-1944, 1947-1949

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(California 1942- )

Studied with his cellist parents and at the Eastman School of Music BMus 1965. Following his retirement from the Cleveland Orchestra has become Head of the Cello Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music.

1973-2003

Norman Schweikert in the "Horn Call" wrote:

"...first horn Arthur Geithe was having problems with conductor Nicholai Sokoloff and left the orchestra during their Eastern tour sometime in February 1921... ¹⁷⁶

Geithe did not complete the 1920-1921 season, departing in February 1921, succeeded by Wendell Hoss

He studied at the Juilliard School and University of Hartford.

(died suddenly during Boston Pops season June 2, 1982 age 56)

(Russia - now Poland 1889- )

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Genovese, Alfred J.

(Pennsylvania 1931-2011)

Genovese in about 1960

At age 16, began study with John Minsker. Entering Curtis, Alfred Genovese was the last student of Marcel Tabuteau to graduate from the Curtis Institute Class of 1953.

Genovese in 1956

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

(Pennsylvania 1917-2008)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1940

(Pennsylvania 1912-1986)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1934.

(France 1971- )

Studied at the Paris Conservatoire winning his Premier Prix in clarinet and chamber music. Yann Ghiro then studied at the Prague Mozart Academy. Winning a Fulbright Scholarship, he studied at the Juilliard School graduating with his MMus in 1996. Returning to France, he he became Bass clarinet of the the Pasdeloup Orchestra, Paris as well as performing with Paris Opera, Orchestre de Paris, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. In the UK, as well as performing with several of the BBC orchestras, Yann Ghiro taught at the Royal Conservatory of Scotland. Principal clarinet in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 1998- 2017. In January 2017, Ghiro was appointed bass clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra.

returned to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Principal clarinet in 2018

(New York 1964- )

Studied at Yale University BA and the Juilliard School MMus and Professional Studies Certificate.

1995-2007

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(then Russia, now Belarus 1909-1995)

Studied in New York with Vladimir Graffman, father of the pianist Gary Graffman, then in Belgium 1926-1928 with Eugène Ysaye (1858-1931). In Europe, Gingold toured for at least one year.  He returned to the USA by 1934 and played freelance in New York City, including in the Broadway pit of Jerome Kern's "The Cat and the Fiddle" in 1931-1932.  Then, in 1937 when Artur Rodzinski was auditioning musicians in order to form the NBC Symphony for Arturo Toscanini, Josef Gingold gained a position in the first violins.  Then, in the 1944-1945 season, Josef Gingold moved to the Detroit Symphony as Concertmaster under Karl Krueger.

In 1947, George Szell, who had already decided to replace Samuel Thaviu as Concertmaster, had begun negotiations with Josef Gingold, with whom he had worked at the NBC Symphony and the Detroit Symphony.  In the 1947-1948 season, Szell hired Josef Gingold as his Concertmaster.   Josef Gingold remained with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra for thirteen seasons, 1947-1960.  He taught at Indiana University from about 1961 until his death.  He was both loved and respected as a teacher, in part because of his patient mentoring of his students.  Among his students were William Preucil, Ulf Hoelscher, Miriam Fried, Jaime Laredo, Joseph Silverstein, and Joshua Bell.  Josef Gingold died in Bloomington, Indiana on January 11, 1995.

(1953- )

(Wisconsin 1913-2001) of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage

Studied at the University of Wisconsin BMus. ⁸¹

(New Jersey 1900-1983)

(Ohio 1940- )

Studied oboe at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and conducting at the Pierre Monteux school in Hancock, Maine. Also Director of the music program at the National Endowment for the Arts for 8 years.

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(Belgium )

(Wisconsin 1896-1986)

With his fellow WTAM radio musicians who were Cleveland Orchestra musicians, he formed the Fine Arts String Quartet: Walberg Brown first, Ben Silverberg second, Theodore Rautenberg viola, Erwin Goetsch cello.

(Illinois 1923- )

Studied at the Juilliard School, one of the last students of Georges Barrère (1876-1944), graduating in about 1943.

Principal flute 1945-1946, piccolo 1943-1945 (to Pittsburgh Symphony)

(Ohio 1907-1964?)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1933. Interestingly, in both Philadelphia and Cleveland, Isadore Goldblum was a contract bridge grand champion.

(Ohio 1905-2005)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1931. Died May 13, 2005 two days prior to his 100th birthday.

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(1924-1980)

(Germany 1925-1994)

Left Germany in 1939 via China. Studied at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and the Peabody Conservatory - Baltimore. He taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music. After the creation of the Kent State - Blossom Music Festival teaching program, taught 41968-1971, and became head of the string department in 1971.

(Kentucky 1967- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music artist diploma, BMus.

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1919-1920, 1921-1922, 1934-1944

> (1913-1955)

Aaron Gorodner (Photographer unidentified Courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra Archives)

Aaron Gorodner made the first recording of Roy Harris's Concerto for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet with the Aeolian Quartet on Columbia in 1933s ⁷⁸. One of the teachers of his later successor, Franklin Cohen.

1930-1931

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(Ohio 1916-2006)

thanks to George Goslee Jr. for this photo

Studied at the Eastman School of Music graduating in 1939. Chairman of Bassoon Studies at The Cleveland Institute of Music.  When the Blossom Music Festival was organized, it was intended as a teaching experience, as well as concert giving, somewhat like Tanglewood, and Goslee taught at Blossom since its inception in 1968.

(1938- )

(Michigan 1897- )

(Canada 1906- )

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, graduating in 1925. Later taught music at Western Reserve University - Cleveland.

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(Germany 1922-2009)

Gideon Grau as conductor

Emigrated to the USA from Israel in 1947. Studied at the Juilliard School and was a Berkshire Music festival fellow in the late 1940s.

(Iowa 1883-1973)

(New York 1937- ) married to San Francisco Symphony violinist Sharon W. Grebanier

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1958. Grebanier was also active in summer festivals, including the Marlboro Festival - Vermont and the Casals Festival - Puerto Rico. Although Michael Grebanier continued to be listed on the San Francisco Symphony roster until his death, beginning in about 2016 he suffered from prolonged illness. Michael Grebanier died on 19 December 2019 at age 82 after a long and rich career.

(Scotland 1908-1974)

cello (also Chicago Symphony cello 1948-1974. also a New York recording sessions musician between the Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony. also Chicago Arts Quartet: Philip Scharf first, Adrian Da Prato second, Isadore Zverow viola, David Greenbaum cello)

Taught at the Lehnhoff School of Music Chicago in the 1950s ¹⁴².

1941-1944

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(1918-1993)

2003-2005

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(China 1961- )

photo: Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Shanghai Music Conservatory. Also studied at the Thorton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

(New York 1897-1966)

From the musical Gusikoff family; Saul Caston was also a Gusikoff (born Solomon Gusikoff Cohen).

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(Illinois 1954- )

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Studied at Northwestern University BMus. He teaches at a number of institutions including Baldwin-Wallace College and the Cleveland Institute of Music,

photo: Roger Mastroianni

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Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Died following the 1939-1940 season in a strange accident where he hit his head on a car bumper. ¹²¹

(then Russia, now Ukraine 1940- )

Studied at the Lvov High School, then Israeli Academy of Music - Tel Aviv. Then participated in the Jascha Heifetz Master Class at the University of Southern California.

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(South Carolina 1970- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the University of Alabama BMus, Cleveland Institute of Music MMus about 1994.

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(New York 1944- )

Lynn Harrell in 1999

Studied first with his musical parents, his father Mack Harrell a singer, and his mother Marjorie Fulton Harrell a violinist. Harrell was admitted first to the Juilliard School and then to the Curtis Institute, graduating in the Class of 1963.

(Japan 1972- )

photo: Roger Mastroianni

Osaka born, Hashizume studied at Toho School of Music in Tokyo, and at the University of Wyoming and the Cleveland Institute of Music. also active in summer music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival - Colorado, the Boston Early Music Festival - Massachusetts, and the Indianapolis Early Music Series - Indiana). In her teaching, Hashizume also coaches the Case/CIM Baroque Orchestra, where she has been Director.

(Nebraska 1920-2011)

Hasty studied at the Eastman School of Music performer’s certificate and BMus in 1941. Before Eastman, Hasty would take a one day train trip each way (free his father working for the railroad) to Denver to study with Val P. Henrich (1890-1980) Principal clarinet of the Denver Symphony. Hasty lived in rural McCook, Nebraska, more than 250 km away from any major city. In 1955, Stanley Hasty returned to his alma mater, the Eastman School, where he taught for the next three decades 1955-1985. His many students include Larry Combs, Sean Osborn and Peter Hadcock .

(Ohio 1923- )

Studied at the Longy School - Massachusetts and at the Juilliard School. Taught at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory - Ohio. Sixteen of Hebert's students commissioned a work by Margaret Griebling-Haigh: Hebert Variations in honor of their teacher.

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(Germany 1879-1933)

Gustav Heim in 1920

Gustav Heim also taught in New York City, and among his famous students were William Vacchiano.  During most of his career, Gustav Heim played a Bb trumpet.  Gustav Heim died relatively young on October 30, 1933 in New York City after a sudden illness, aged only 54.

(Germany 1898-1962)

Walter Henker died while touring Canada in 1962, according to his family from a brain tumor. Henker became a US citizen in 1957.

Thanks to grandson Steven Walter Morris for this photo.

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(Pennsylvania 1916-2013)

Harry age 90, still playing until he passed age 96

Studied at the New England Conservatory in late 1930s, and earned his BMus there in 1946 after service in World War 2. Long-time teacher at Kent State University - Ohio.

(then Austro-Hungary, now Ukraine 1898-1986)

one of many Hering studies and etudes - Hering was one of the most published teachers for the trumpet, other brass and woodwinds.

Studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna 1915-1921. Hering student Wilmer Wise (Brooklyn Symphony) wrote that Hering studied both double bass and trumpet at the Curtis Institute. Hering is listed as a Curtis graduate Class of 1930, when he would have been 31 years old and already in the Philadelphia Orchestra for 5 seasons. Trumpet scholar Dr. Thomas R. Erdmann wrote that Hering "...was perhaps the most influential trumpet teacher in America during the mid 20th century...He is the most published trumpet pedagogue in the world..." ⁵⁶. Sigmund Hering for more than fifty years taught at the Settlement Music School - Philadelphia.

Studied at the Manhattan School of Music, BMus and MMus. Hestand is said to have returned to New York City at the end of the 2012-2013 season

Hestand succeeded Second bassoon Phillip Austin (1981-2011).

(Ohio 1919-2004)

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Studied at the University of Southern California

(Pennsylvania 1930-2010)

thanks to Audrey Hois for this photograph of her husband

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1950. Active in Summer festivals, including as a student at Tanglewood in Summers of 1948, 1949, 1950, and particularly at the Chautauqua Festival 1960-1979 where his family had a cottage and regularly spent their summers.

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(Kansas 1892-1980)

Wendell Hoss in 1921

Principal horn (also Chicago Symphony Principal horn 1922-1923 and horn 1917-1918, Los Angeles Philharmonic in its founding season 1919-1920, Rochester Philharmonic Principal horn 1924-1930, Pittsburgh Symphony under Reiner 1940-1941, then moving back to California, for eighteen years in the 1950s and 1960s played in the Walt Disney studio recording orchestra and other Hollywood studio orchestras)

Wendell Hoss was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Horn Club and the International Horn Society.

1921-1922, 1930-1932

Wendell Hoss in California

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(Ohio 1886-1968)

1918-1955

(Ohio 1893-1976)

1920-1921, 1925-1926

(Bohemia, now Czech 1883-1974)

Frank Hruby Sr., or Frantisek Hruby (1857-1913), father of the Hruby children was also a clarinetist, music educator and beginning in 1889, director of the Great Western Band. In Cleveland, he played for many years in the orchestra of the Euclid Avenue Opera House.

1918-1926

(Ohio 1887-1964)

1918-1926

(Ohio 1897-1984)

1918-1919

(Ohio 1899-1965)

1925-1926, 1927-1956

Hruby Family in about 1940: Mayme, Frank, Fred (not Cleveland Orchestra), John, William, Charles, Alois

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(New York 1947- ) lived extensively in Germany

Studied first with her musician parents, particularly her father Maurel Hunkins. Then she entered the Juilliard pre-college program followed by Indiana University BMus and MMus.

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(Israel 1986- )

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 2007, Juilliard School. Active in summer festivals, including the Verbier Festival - Switzerland and the Spoleto Festival - Italy.

July 2009-present

is Shachar Israel a fan of the champion Cleveland Indians?

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(Iowa 1966- )

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Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Eastman School of Music BMus. Also at the Cleveland Institute of Music, artist diploma. Active in music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado), the Edinburgh International Festival, Mainly Mozart (California), and the American Heidelberg Schlosspeile and the Interlochen Summer Arts Festival.

violas Lynne Ramsey and Mark Jackobs with Franz Welser-Möst in the Vienna Musikverein

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(1940- )

1969-2000

(Alaska 1984- )

photo: Roger Mastroianni

Studied at Cleveland Institute of Music, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and at the Juilliard School, where he earned his artist diploma. He is active in music festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont), Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival (New York), the Seattle Chamber Music Festival (Washington) and the summer London Promenade Concerts (Proms).

(Illinois about 1925- )

Studied at De Paul University - Chicago. Also played in summers in the Santa Fe Opera orchestra in the late 1950s.

  Marcosson Quartette in 1908 (click on image to enlarge)

1918-1919

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(Florida 1945- )

Studied at Florida State University and the Eastman School of Music. Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and MMus. Also studied organ at the Conservatory of Music - Baldwin-Wallace College - Ohio.

(Ohio 1884-1958)

(Germany 1888- )

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(Finland 1907-1987)

Studied in Sweden and in Berlin and Weimar, Germany ¹⁵⁴. Emigrated to the USA in 1925.

(Russia 1888- )

(Ohio 1914-1989)

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music Class of 1936

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(Poland 1910-2010)

Well-known also as a maker and repairer of violin bows; in the 1960s, he worked at the Wurlitzer violin shop in New York. Kaston also made artistic jewelry with musical themes.

1942-1944

(Germany 1890- )

(Russia 1995-1972)

(Illinois 1880-1954)

1925-1936

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(then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic 1878- )

Emigrated from Prague to the USA in 1905.

(Canada 1891- )

Emigrated to the USA from Montréal in 1925. Studied cello in Europe, including Berlin, Vienna, Paris ¹⁵⁵.

1941-1942

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(Canada 1958- )

Studied at the Juilliard School BMus 1980. As well as numerous Cleveland Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra recordings, and solo performances, Khaner has made several chamber music CDs, including flute sonatas by Robert and Clara Schumann and by Brahms on Avie Records (see right).

1982-1990

(Pennsylvania 1900-1960)

Studied at the Donas Musical Institute, Warren, Ohio.

(New York 1968- )

Studied at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in the Spring, 1985 and beginning September 1985 at the Curtis Institute, graduating in Class of 1989. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Richard King has recorded a CD of beautiful transcriptions of Schubert Lieder for Albany worth multiple hearings (see right)

1988-present

(1896-1970)

(1890-1970)

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(Wisconsin 1921-2010)

Studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison BMus 1943.

(Kentucky 1957- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied in the 1970s at the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music. Active in coaching students at the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Klaber is also Principal euphonium of the Blossom Festival Band, back to his first instrument as a student. Also active in competitive ice skating.

1985-present

(New York 1905-1985)

Sol Klass from a 1938 NBC Symphony publicity drawing ¹⁷⁴

Studied with his Russian-born father Morris Klass.

1926-1928

(Ohio 1948- )

Studied at the University of Illinois and Yale University.

1977-present

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(New York 1913-1967)

Knitzer studied with Leopold Auer (1845-1930) for nearly seven years.  He also studied with Louis Persinger (1887-1966). Knitzer was a long time teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University in Chicago, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the University of Michigan.

(California 1945- )

Studied at Indiana University BMus, and at Catholic University - Washaington MMus.

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and Northwestern University - Chicago MMus.

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(New York 1894-1965)

Kolodkin was released from the Detroit Symphony in November 1927 after an argument with Victor Kolar Associate conductor. After relocating to Hollywood to perform in the film studio orchestras, Herman Kolodkin died in September 1965 in Beverly Hills.

Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy - Michigan and at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

(Wisconsin 1976- )

Early studies with his cellist father Paul R. Kosower. Mark Kosower studied at Indiana University BMus and artist diploma in about 1998. Also MMus at the Juilliard School in about 2001. For NAXOS in 2009-2010, Mark Kosower recorded the Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Cello Concerto no 1 with Lothar Zagrosek - Bamberg Symphony. Kosower was the first cellist to record the complete catalogue of works for solo cello by the great Argentine composer Ginastera. He also recorded a rewarding recital of cello sonatas by Hungarian composers (see right)

(then Russia, now Ukraine 1922-2001)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1941. Jacob Krachmalnick was said by his colleagues to be a difficult and sarcastic leader.

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(then Russia, now Ukraine 1903-1995)

Alban Berg, left, with Louis Krasner

After moving to Boston as a child, was admitted to the New England Conservatory, graduating in 1922. Relocating to Paris and then to Berlin, Krasner gave the premieres of both the Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg Violin Concerti. Taught music at Syracuse Univesity, New York 1949-1972, and at the New England Conservatory in the 1970s.

(Austria 1930-2006)

Kraus left Vienna for the UK at age 9, due to the evacuation of Jewish children ¹⁶⁹. Kraus was succeede by Robert Walters, formerly English horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

1979-2003

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(then Austria, now Czech 1889-1968)

Trained as a bassoonist in Vienna in his teenage years.

(also sometimes listed as Carl H. Kuhlman)

(Germany 1878-1951) a long-time NYC resident, he died in Marin County, California

thanks to Richard Howie for added information

also active in summer music festivals, including the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music beginning in 1919.

(North Carolina 1987- )

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Studied at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University (Houston) BMus and the Cleveland Institute of Music MMus, a student of William Preucil. Active in music festivals including Spoleto Festival USA (South Carolina), the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany), the Pacific Music Festival (Japan), Blossom Music Festival (Ohio).

succeeded Ying Fu who went to the Philadelphia Orchestra as Associate Concertmaster

(Syria 1895-1978)

Taught at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory - Ohio in 1920s into about 1939. Jack Benny claimed that Lawrence Kurkdjie was his most important violin teacher ¹¹⁸. Billed as Nazar Kurkdjie in performance, his friends called him Lawrence.

(Rhode Island 1961- )

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music BMus 1983.

1995-present

(Massachusetts 1916-1993)

Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus 1943 ¹⁴⁹. also received his MA in music in January, 1944 from Western Reserve University - Ohio. Kushleika taught at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.

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(then Austria-Hungary, now Czech 1914-1994)

Emigrated to the USA in March, 1952. Laksar was succeeded as second bassoon by Phillip Austin following the 1980-1981 season.

Studied privately with William Vacchiano of the New York Philharmonic.

1948-1951

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(1956- )

newspaper photo of Timothy Lane in 1990s

Timothy Lane studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) MMus and Doctor of Musical Arts. Lane was later Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Active in music festivals including the Roundtop Music Festival (Texas), the Arcady Music Festival (Maine) and the San Antonio Chamber Players (Texas).

(Italy 1974- )

Studied in Sicily with Filippo Bonanno, Principal trombone of the Sicilian Symphony. On August 16, 2018, the Cleveland Orchestra announced that it had hired the Debevoise & Plimpton law firm to conduct an independent investigation of Massimo La Rosa following accusations of sexual misconduct. La Rosa was subsequently dismissed by the orchestra in October 2018.

(California 1895-1979)

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(New York 1915-1997)

1939-1941

(then Russia, now Ukraine 1938-2010)

photograph by Roger Mastroianni

Studied first with his parents, his father being a violinist with the Leningrad Philharmonic, and his mother teaching piano at the Leningrad Conservatory. Lazarev then studeied at the Gnesin Academy of Music - Moscow.

died during the 2009-2010 season on April 10, 2010.

(Virginia 1983- )

Studied at the Curtis Institute BMus Class of 2001 and the Juilliard School MMus 2003 First-prize winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. She has been active in music festivals including the Ravinia Festival (Illinois) and the Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont).

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 2005 and then at the Juilliard School MMus.

2008-present

photo: Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus and MMus. Winner of numerous music competitions, including study at the Music Academy of the West (California). Active in music festivals, including the Spoleto Festival - South Carolina, Pacific Music Festival - Japan.

2013-present

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(France 1874-after 1932)

1929-1930

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(Hungary 1901- )

(then Russian now Ukraine 1893-1952)

Died at the end of the 1951-1952 Philadelphia season age 59.

(New York 1926-2000)

Marc Lifschey in 1960

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1948. From 1993-1998, Marc Lifschey taught at Indiana University, until retiring to Oregon.

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(New York 1889-1961)

Studied violin under Arnold Volpe (1869-1940) in New York City in the 1910s.

1921-1923

In 1930, Lilleback and Felix Leifels organized the Civic Symphony Orchestra of New York to give low priced concerts ⁵⁸

1941-1948

(Illinois 1882-1964)

1918-1920

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(Netherlands 1888-1979)

Lingeman pursued a cello solo career in Europe, and then joined the string quartet led by Émile Sauret (1852-1920).

1919-1920

Studied at Brandeis University - Massachusetts. Active in teaching musicians in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.

1968-present

(Ohio 1942- )

horn (also Music in Maine Chamber Orchestra, Prize winner in 1976 International Horn Competition of America)

Studied at the New England Conservatory MMus. College-Conservatory of Music - University of Cincinnati PhD studies. Sin 1972, taught several generations of horns at Arizona State University School of Music (now retired). Married to Phoenix Symphony flute Marjorie Yates-Lockwood. Recently returned to Ohio.

1975-1976

(Austria 1921-2009)

Studied with Ernst Moravec, Principal violist of the Vienna Philharmonic, and at the Juilliard School 1941-1943, Cleveland Institute of Music BMus, MMus ¹⁰⁸. Also served as Chairman of the Cleveland Orchestra musician's committee ¹⁰⁷. His son David Loebel pursued a conducting career, including Associate Principal conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony and Music Director of the Memphis Symphony.

1947-1997

fifty seasons of service

(Canada 1876-1940)

Studied violin with Sol Marcosson and at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music graduating in 1899. Then studied in Chicago at Northwestern University where he also later taught. Returned to Cleveland in 1912 where he became dean of the Cleveland Music School Settlement, providing free music instruction primarily for children of working parents. One of the early musicians to aid the organization of the Cleveland Orchestra.

1918-1929

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(1982- )

As a student, studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Later studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music BMus in 2005, the Yale School of Music. Active at the Pacific Music Festival, Sunriver Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West.

(Utah 1895-1964)

William Lym studied at the New England Conservatory performers certificate about 1920. Lym later taught at the McCune School of Music and Art, Salt Lake City, Utah in the 1920s (now closed). In 1929, Lym moved to Los Angeles as a music teacher. In the 1950s, William Lym made highly praised oboes and English horns in West Hollywood, California.

1921-1924

(Washington, DC about 1989- )

photo: Steve Riskind

Studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy - Michigan 2006, and later at the New England conservatory BMus and studying for MMus at the Juilliard School. Also active in summer music festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival - Vermont, the Music Academy of the West - California, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Aspen Music Festival and School - Colorado. In Boston in 2009, Mary Lynch gave the premier of the Oboe Concerto by Benjamin Pesetsky (1989- ).

succeeded by Corbin Stair as Second oboe in May 2015

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(Massachusetts 1901-1955)

Studied at the New England Conservatory class of 1921. Walter Macdonald died suddenly during the Boston Symphony 1954-1955 season on March 30, 1955.

1926-1928

(Pennsylvania 1929- )

Studied at the New England Conservatory class of 1950.

1955-1963

(1927-2006)

Principal oboe (also the Sadler Wells Ballet 1951-1952 tour of the US, also New Orleans Symphony Principal oboe 1952-1963. National Symphony of Washington DC 1963-1965. also in 1951 and 1952 Principal oboe of the Pablo Casals Festivals - Prades, France and then in Perpignan, France)

Studied at the Juilliard School and then Curtis Institute, BMus Class of 1951, one of the last students of Marcel Tabuteau. For more than 25 years, John Mack taught at the John Mack Oboe Camp, a summer music camp organized in 1976 by New York Philharmonic Principal oboe Joseph Robinson, a John Mack student - a camp that still continues today.

1965-2001

(Massachusetts )

Dr. MacRitchie was primarily active as a dentist in Toronto and in Ohio while also playing in the orchestras of his locations.

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(Ohio 1885- )

(Michigan 1932-1993)

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1950.

1955-1993

Died during the 1993-1994 season on November 28, 1993, age 61 from the effects of prostate cancer.

(Washington DC 1954- )

Now teaches at the Palm Beach Academy of Music - Florida.

1979-2001 (on leave in 2001 for health reasons, then resigned)

(Missouri 1949- )

cello (also New Hampshire Sinfonietta Principal cello, New Haven Symphony Co-Principal cello)

Studied at Washington University - Saint Louis BMus and Yale School of Music MMus.

1977-

(Pennsylvania 1921-2008)

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(Nebraska 1928-1996)

Principal clarinet (also National Symphony of Washington DC Second clarinet 1945-1946 and 1949-1950, Principal clarinet 1950-1953. also 1946-1949, US Air Force Band in Washington)

Early studies were with Earl Handlon, bass clarinet of the Minneapolis Symphony. In 1944 studied with his great predecessor as Principal clarinet in Cleveland: Daniel Bonade. Marcellus taught at Northwestern University, Chicago 1974-1994.

1953-1973

retired at the end of the 1972-1973 season consequent to health complications from diabetes

(Kentucky 1869-1940)

First Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra, 1918-1919, later returned as a sub, and as viola 1928-1931. (also a founder of the Marcosson Quartette, later renamed the Cleveland Philharmonic String Quartet. The 1908 Marcosson Quartette was: Sol Marcosson first, Charles Rychlik second, James Johnston viola, Charles Heydler cello. Click on the thumbnail picture below to see the Marcosson Quartette in 1908.

  Marcosson Quartette in 1908 (click on image to enlarge). Sol Marcosson played with the various unsuccessful symphony orchestras prior to the Cleveland Orchestra during 1900-1920: The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Grand Orchestra, and the Cleveland Municipal Orchestra)

1918-1919, 1928-1931

Studied at the Curtis Institute Class of 1940. Wrote the interesting book Transatlantic passenger steamships to Philadelphia in 1985. Maresh died suddenly November 29, 1986.

1941-1942, 1945-1948

(Missouri 1926- )

Studied at the Eastman School of Music BMus 1948 (as did his fellow bassoon George Goslee), University of Colorado MMus in composition 1956.

(Scotland 1902-1988)

From a musical family, brothers Malcolm and Alexander were also musicians. Studied violin in Edmonton, Canada, and at the New England Conservatory of Music.

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(Hungary 1879-1970)

Studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik about 1894-1897.

1929-1937

(Japan 1956- )

photo: Roger Mastroianni

Studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music - Tokyo BMus, New England Conservatory - Boston Artist's Certificate.

1984-present

(Ohio 1916-1993)

Studied as a teen at the Interlochen Music Camp - Michigan, also Cleveland Institute of Music, Curtis Institute Class of 1937.

(1942- )

1963-2001

(Michigan )

Ralph Matson as Concertmaster Utah Symphony

Matson studied music at Oberlin College, and then arts at Yale University BA. He earned his MMus from the Yale School of Music. active in music festivals, including Since 1996, he has participated in the Grand Teton Music Festival (Wyoming) - Concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra.

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(Tennessee 1972- )

Studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

1997-present