WHATCOM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2009-2010 Personnel

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VIOLIN I:
Grant Donnellan*
Emily Bailey
Laura Barnes
David Bean
Melissa Challender
Gaye Davis
Joanne Donnellan
Irene Fadden
James Knight
Amy Margolis
Yelena Nelson
Sandra Payton
Krissy Snyder
Maritza Soto
John Tilley
Karen Visser
Bill Watts

VIOLIN II
Kathy Diaz*
Barbara Curtis
Frances DeRook
Timothy Freeman
Anne Gregor
Laura Guthridge
Laura Herren-Lund
Jane Lund
Kashmere Mareau
Laura Reed
Rosalie Romano +
Carla Rutschman
Amie Smit
Joan Stewart
Kris Turner
Jane Young

VIOLA
Morgan Schwab*
Kacey Alleman
Joanne Dudley
Becky Elmendorf
Lisa Humphrey
Celeste Larson
Natalie Muri
Michael Neville
Kyle Purnell
Betsy Stuen-Walker

CELLO:
Nick Strobel*
Chip Bergeron+
Mary Burgess+
Ivan Dlouhy
Noel Evans
Coral Marchant
Celia Obrecht
Mary Passmore
Bette Ann Schwede
Cori Ann Traber

BASS:
Faye Hong*
Natalee Binning
Jameson Dickman
Jonathan Humphrey
Zack Zydek

FLUTE:
Lisa McCarthy*
Debbie Arthur
Nirvana Guernsey

OBOE:
Jennifer Weeks*
Kristen Gillig
Ken Bronstein

CLARINET:
Ray Downey*
Barry Ulman*
Kim Fay
Dag Jensen

BASSOON:
Pat Nelson*
Phillip Thomas
Terhi Miikki-Broersma

HORN:
Brad Bigelow*
Brent Allen
Jack Champagne
Greg Verbarendse
Greta Haas

TRUMPET:
Karolyn Labes*
Steve Sperry
Del Vandekerk

TROMBONE:
Max Jones*
Phil Heft
Bob Gray

TUBA:
Mark Lindenbaum*

PERCUSSION:
Stephanie Straight*
Scott Davis
Jennifer Longstaff
Tanya McAtee +
Kay Reilly

KEYBOARD:
Andrea Rackl*

HARP:
Jill Whitman*

GUITAR:
Tom Miller

   

* Principal
+ On Leave

Concertmaster

Grant Donnellan

Grant Donnellan
Violinist Grant Donnellan holds a Master of Music degree and Performance Certificate from Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. His principal teachers include Sydney Harth, Eric Friedmann, Roland and Almita Vamos, and the Tokyo String Quartet. While at Yale he received the Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Chamber Music Excellence Award and was a member of the Irving S. Gillmore Scholarship Piano Trio. He has performed with numerous symphony orchestras, including the American Sinfonietta. Donnellan has been a guest artist at the Olympic Music Festival, the Governor's Recital Series, Bellingham Festival of Music, Wintergreen Music Festival, Cascadia Spring Music Festival, the Boulder Bach Society and the Holzhausen Music Festival in Germany. He has performed concertos with the Whatcom Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta and the Western Washington University Symphony Orchestra. He teaches violin and coaches chamber music at Western and co-directs the summer Chamber Music Festival.

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