User:Limesave/2015-16 Seattle Symphony Orchestra season

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
	Orchestra information
Music Director	Ludovic Morlot
Concertmaster	Rotating
Venue	Benaroya Hall
Average attendance	2,350

The 2015-16 Seattle Symphony orchestra season was the Seattle Symphony's nth season of operation. The orchestra kicked off its season on

Off-season[edit]

Staff[edit]

Executive Office

President – Simon Woods
CEO – Simon Woods
Executive Assistant to the President / Senior Vice President – Rachel Moore
Senior Vice President of Football Administration – Matt Thomas
Director of Board Relations & Strategic Initiatives - Kristen NyQuist
General Counsel - Bernel Goldberg

Artistic Planning

Vice President of Artistic Planning - Elena Dubinets
Assistant Artistic Administrator - Paige Gilbert
Director of Audio & Recording - Dimitry Lipay

Conductors

Music Director – Ludovic Morlot
Principal Guest Conductor – Thomas Dausgaard
Principal Pops Conductor – Jeff Tyzik
Associate Conductor for Choral Activities – Joseph Crnko
Assistant Conductor – Pablo Rus Broseta
Conducting Fellow – Ruth Reinhardt
Conductor Laureate – Gerard Schwarz

Roster[edit]

First violins

Emma McGrath
Cordula Merks
Simon James
Jennifer Bai
Mariel Bailey
Cecilia Poellein Buss
Ayako Gamo
Timothy Garland
Leonid Keylin
Mae Lin
Mikhail Shmidt
Clark Story
John Weller
Jeannie Wells Yablonsky
Arthur Zadinsky

Second violins

Elisa Barston
Michael Miropolsky
Kathleen Boyer
Gennady Filimonov
Evan Anderson
Natasha Bazhanov
Stephen Bryant
Linda Cole
Xiao-po Fei
Sande Gillette
Artur Girsky
Andrew Yeung

Violas

Susan Gulkis Assadi
Arie Schachter
Mara Gearman
Timothy Hale
Vincent Comer
Penelope Crane
Wesley Anderson Dyring
Sayaka Kokubo
Rachel Swerdlow
Julie Whitton

Violoncelli

Efe Baltacigil
Meeka Quan DiLorenzo
Eric Han
Bruce Bailey
Roberta Hansen Downey
Walter Gray
Vivian Gu
Joy Payton-Stevens
David Sabee

Double basses

Jordan Anderson
Joseph Kaufman
Ted Botsford
Jonathan Burnstein
Jennifer Godfrey
Travis Gore
Jonathan Green

Flutes

Zartouhi Domburian-Eby
Judy Washburn Kriewall

Oboes

Mary Lynch
Ben Hausmann
Chengwen Winnie Lai
Stefan Farkas

Clarinets

Benjamin Lulich
Laura DeLuca
Eric Jacobs

Bassoons

Seth Krimsky
Paul Rafanelli
Mike Gamburg

Trumpets

David Gordon
Alexander White
Geoffrey Bergler

Horns

Jeffrey Fair
Mark Robbins
Adam Iascone
John Turman
Cara Kizer

Trombones

Ko-ichiro Yamamoto
David Lawrence Ritt
Stephen Fissel

Tubas

Christopher Olka

Timpani

Michael Crusoe

Percussion

Michael A. Werner
Michael Clark

Harp

Valerie Muzzolini Gordon

Keyboard

Kimberly Russ
Joseph Adam

Season schedule[edit]

No.	Program name	Dates	Program
1	Beethoven & Mahler	September 24 at 7:30 PM September 26 at 8:00 PM	Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 Mahler: Symphony No. 1
2	Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Untuxed	September 25 at 7:30 PM	Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
3	Live @ Benaroya Hall: Bollywood Masala Orchestra	September 30 at 7:30 PM	TBA
4	Brahms Symphony No. 3	October 1 at 7:30 PM October 3 at 8:00 PM October 4 at 2:00 PM	Richard Strauss: Don Quixote Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Notable achievements[edit]

Orchestra[edit]

Award	Awarded
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition	February 8, 2015

Individual[edit]

Name	Award	Awarded

Transactions[edit]

Musicians acquired[edit]

Date	Musician	Former orchestra

Musicians lost[edit]

Date	Musician	New orchestra
July 1, 2015	Alexander Velinzon	Boston Symphony Orchestra

Retirements[edit]

Date	Musician	Age