Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano, Music Director The Robert Reid Topping Chair *
Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor The Neil and Sue Williams Chair *
Jere Flint, Staff Conductor; Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra The Zeist Foundation Chair *
Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair
Mei-Ann Chen, Assistant Conductor, League of american orchestras Conducting Fellow FIRST VIOLIN William Pu Associate/Acting Concertmaster
The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair *
Justin Bruns
Assistant Concertmaster The Mary and Cherry Emerson Chair
Jun-Ching Lin
Assistant Concertmaster
Carolyn Toll Hancock
The AGL Resources Chair
Martha Reaves Head John Meisner Alice Anderson Oglesby Lorentz Ottzen Christopher Pulgram Carol Ramirez Juan Ramirez Olga Shpitko Denise Berginson Smith Kenn Wagner Lisa Wiedman Yancich SECOND VIOLIN David Arenz
Principal The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair *
Sou-Chun Su
Associate Principal The FrancesCheney Boggs Chair *
Jay Christy
Assistant Principal
Eleanor Arenz Sharon Berenson David Braitberg Noriko Konno Clift Judith Cox David Dillard Raymond Leung Ruth Ann Little Thomas O’Donnell Ronda Respess Sanford Salzinger Frank Walton
VIOLA Reid Harris
Principal The Edus H. and Harriet H. Warren Chair *
Paul Murphy
Associate Principal The Mary and Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair *
Wesley Collins Robert Jones Marian Kent Yang-Yoon Kim• Catherine Lynn Lachlan McBane Heidi Nitchie Ardath Weck CELLO Christopher Rex
Principal The Miriam and John Conant Chair *
Daniel Laufer
Associate Principal The Livingston Foundation Chair
Karen Freer
Assistant Principal
Dona Vellek Klein
Assistant Principal Emeritus
Joel Dallow Jere Flint Larry LeMaster Brad Ritchie Davin Rubicz• Paul Warner BASS Ralph Jones
OBOE Elizabeth Koch
Principal The George M. and Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair *
TROMBONE Colin Williams
Principal The First Union Chair
Stephen Wilson
Associate Principal The Patsy and Jere Drummond Chair
Yvonne Powers Peterson
Bill Thomas George Curran
Deborah Workman Patrick McFarland
BASS TROMBONE George Curran
ENGLISH HORN Patrick McFarland
TUBA Michael Moore
Associate Principal
CLARINET Laura Ardan
Principal The Robert Shaw Chair *
Principal TheGeorgia-Pacific Chair
TIMPANI Mark Yancich
Ted Gurch
Principal The Walter H. Bunzl Chair *
William Rappaport
William Wilder
Associate Principal The Lucent Technologies Chair
Alcides Rodriguez E-FLAT CLARINET Ted Gurch BASS CLARINET Alcides Rodriguez BASSOON Carl Nitchie
Principal The Walter L. “Buz” Carr, III Chair
Elizabeth Burkhardt Associate Principal
Laura Najarian
Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION Thomas Sherwood Principal The Julie and Arthur Montgomery Chair *
William Wilder Assistant Principal Charles Settle** HARP Elisabeth Remy Johnson Principal The Delta Air Lines Chair
KEYBOARD
Principal The Marcia and John Donnell Chair *
The Pricewaterhouse Coopers Chair
Juan de Gomar
Gloria Jones
The Hugh and Jessie Hodgson Memorial Chair *
CONTRABASSOON Juan de Gomar
Peter Marshall † Beverly Gilbert † Sharon Berenson
Associate Principal
Jane Little
Assistant Principal Emeritus
Joseph Conyers• Michael Kenady Michael Kurth Douglas Sommer Thomas Thoreson FLUTE Christina Smith
Principal The Jill Hertz Chair *
Robert Cronin
Associate Principal
Paul Brittan
The Georgia Power Foundation Chair
Carl David Hall
16 Encore Atlanta
PICCOLO Carl David Hall
HORN Brice Andrus
Principal The Sandra and JohnGlover Chair
LIBRARY Rebecca Beavers Principal
Susan Welty
Steven Sherrill
Thomas Witte Richard Deane
John Wildermuth
Associate Principal
Assistant
TheUPS Community Service Chair
Bruce Kenney TRUMPET Thomas Hooten
Principal The Madeline and Howell Adams Chair* * Chair named in perpetuity • New this season Kevin Lyons **Leave of absence Associate Principal † Regularly engaged musician Joseph Walthall The SunTrustBank Chair Players in string sections are listed alphabetically. Michael Tiscione