Orchestra Roster

Conductors

Perry So
Music Director & Principal Conductor

Chelsea Tipton, II
Principal Pops Conductor

Vacant
Chelsea Tipton, II Harmony Conductor Fellow

Strings

Violin

  • David Southorn, Concertmaster
  • Tristan Siegel, Assistant Concertmaster
  • Stephan Tieszen, Principal Second Violin, The Ruth Grannick and Charles Grannick Jr. Chair
  • Millie Piekos, Assistant Principal Second Violin, The Howard & Judith Henry Chair
  • Simon Bilyk
  • Fengwan Chen
  • Soohyun Choi
  • Elisabeth Ewe
  • Bin Gui
  • Akiko Hosoi
  • Angeles Hoyos, Harmony Fellow
  • Stephanie Hug
  • Harin Kang
  • Yeongeun Kim
  • Megan Lin
  • Yuan Ma
  • Judith McDermott-Eggert
  • Leah Streety, Harmony Fellow
  • Gregory Tompkins
  • Saerom Yoo
  • Chieh-An Yu

Section violin chair donors: The Sheila Getman-Sherwin and John Sherwin III Chair, The Frank D. Winder Chair, The Jeanet S. Curtis Chair, The Beekman C. Cannon Chair

The Helen E. Hagan Chair is supported through generous investments to the Helen E. Hagan Fund for Underrepresented Musicians. Click here to learn more about the fund and to make a gift.

Viola

  • Alexander McLaughlin, Principal, The Byron Brewer Chair
  • Ellen Higham, Assistant Principal, The Christopher & Evelyn Getman Chair
  • Gretchen Frazier
  • Yaroslav Kargin
  • Jill Pellett Levine
  • Zitian Lyu
  • Linda Numagami
  • Jiaming Wang
  • Toby Winarto

Section viola chair donor: The Julia Bryant Getman & Charles Cunningham Chair & Byron Brewer Chair, supported in loving memory by Anne D. Hale

Cello

  • Rebecca Patterson, Principal, The Martha & Herman Copen Chair
  • Tom Hudson, Assistant Principal
  • Elisabeth Chang
  • Julia Henderson
  • Cheng Liang
  • Shengyu Meng
  • Isabella Palacpac
  • Mariusz Skula

Section cello chair donor: The Howard & Judith Henry Chair

Bass

  • Misha Bjerken, Principal, The Sidney Rhein Chair
  • Kohei Yamaguchi, Assistant Principal
  • Jim Andrews
  • Christopher Johnson
  • Jeffrey Tomkins
  • Samuel Zagnit

Woodwinds

Flute

  • Mira Magrill, Principal
  • Marjorie Shansky, Assistant Principal, The Hilary G. Pearson & Erik Pearson Chair

Oboe

  • Olav van Hezewijk, Principal, The Auxiliary of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Chair
  • Marta Boratgis, Assistant Principal

Clarinet

  • David Shifrin, Principal
  • Bixby Kennedy, Assistant Principal

Bassoon

  • Rémy Taghavi, Principal
  • Abigail Lopez, Assistant Principal, The Lewis P. Curtis Chair

Brass

Horn

  • Eva Conti, Principal, The William Doolittle Getman Chair
  • Brian Nichols
  • Sara Cyrus, Assistant Principal
  • Kyle Hoyt

Trumpet

  • Dovas Lietuvninkas (on leave), Principal, Anne D. Hale Principal Trumpet Chair 
  • Ken Tedeschi, Acting Principal
  • Mike Flynt, Acting Assistant Principal

Trombone

  • Scott Cranston, Principal
  • Connor Rowe, Assistant Principal

Bass Trombone

  • Felix Padilla (on leave), Assistant Principal
  • William Whitaker, Acting Assistant Principal

Tuba

  • Adam Crowe, Principal

Percussion

Timpani

  • Michael Singer, Principal, The Glenn Doolittle Sherwin & John William Sherwin Chair

Percussion

  • Aya Kaminaguchi, Principal

Harp

  • Li Shan Tan, Principal

Piano

  • William Braun, Principal

Personnel Manager & Librarian

  • Marvin Warshaw, The Jane & William Curran Symphony Library in honor of Michael Palmer