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Double Reed Sections in Major Orchestras

Compiled by Daniel Stolper
Lansing, Michigan

hese are the double reed players who have

reached the top - the men and women
who play the oboe and bassoon in the
forty-some orchestras which are members
of ICSOM (the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians), the orchestras usually referred to as the majors. Listings are taken
either from the orchestras websites or from the
ICSOM directory.
ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
OBOES
James Sullivan
Sarah Pool

BASSOONS
Tariq Masri
Jack Sharp

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Jonathan Dlouhy
Yvonne Powers Peterson
(assistant)
Deborah Workman
Patrick McFarland (English horn)

BASSOONS
Carl Nitchie
Elizabeth Burghardt
(assistant)
Z. Mark Smith
Michael Gamburg (contra)

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Joseph Turner
James Ostryniec (assistant)
Jane Marvine (English horn)

BASSOONS
Phillip A. M. Kolker
Julie Green (assistant)
Brent Rickman
David P. Coombs (contra)

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
________(Principal - Vacant)
Keisuke Wakao (assistant)
Mark McEwen
Robert Sheena (English horn)

BASSOONS
Richard Svoboda
Richard Ranti (associate)
Gregg Henegar (contra)

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Pierre G. Roy
Colin Smith
Florence Myers (English horn)

BASSOONS
Glenn Einschlag
Ron Daniels
Martha Malkiewicz (contra)

CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Hollis Ulaky
Jennifer Sperry
Terry Maskin (English horn)

BASSOONS
Mary Beth Griglak
Lori Tiberio (and contra)
Joshua Hood

CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Jonathan Fischer
Judith Kulb
Robert Morgan (English horn)

BASSOONS
James Berkenstock
Anne Eagleton
Lewis Kirk (contra)

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Alex Klein
Michael Henoch (assistant)
Richard Kanter
Grover Schiltz (English horn)

BASSOONS
David McGill
William Buchman (assistant)
Dennis Michel
Burl Lane (contra)

CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
BASSOONS
Richard Johnson
William Winstead
Michael Kenyon
Hugh Michie
Lon Bussell (associate)
Martin James (associate)
Robert Walters
Frank Heintz (contra)
(English horn) - on leave
Christopher Philpotts (English horn)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
OBOES
John Mack
Elizabeth Camus
Jeffrey Rathbun (assistant)
Felix Kraus (English horn)

BASSOONS
John Clouser
Phillip Austin
Ronald Phillips (assistant)
Jonathan Sherwin (contra)

COLORADO SYMPHONY
OBOES
Peter Cooper
Lisa Martin
Monica Johnson (English horn)

BASSOONS
Chad Cognata
Stanley Scheller
James Rodgers (contra)

COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Stephen Secan
Robert Royse
(and English horn)
Renata Sakins
Melissa Stevens

BASSOONS
Betsy Sturdevant
Douglas Fisher
Cynthia Cioffari (and contra)
Trueman Allison

DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Eric Barr
David Matthews
(associate and English horn)
Willa Henigman (assistant)

BASSOONS
Wilfred Roberts
Scott Walzel
(interim associate)
Peter Grenier (contra)

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DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

OBOES
Donald Baker
Shelley Heron
Brian Ventura (assistant)
Treva Womble (English horn)

OBOES
David Weiss
Marion Arthur Kuszyk
Anne Marie Gabriele
Carolyn Hove (English horn)

BASSOONS
Robert Williams
Victoria King
Paul Ganson (assistant)
Marcus Schoon (contra)

THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Martin Hebert
Lane Lederer
Joyce James (English horn)

BASSOONS
Mark Sforzini
John Kehayas (and contra)

LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA
OBOES
Marion Gibson
Trevor Johnson
Marianne Petersen (English horn)

FLORIDA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

OBOES
John Dee
Karen Kang
Erika Yamada

BASSOONS
Luciano Magnanini
Henry Skolnick

HONOLULU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Scott Janusch
Jason Lichtenwalter (associate)
Lelie Ann Resnick (English horn)

BASSOONS
Paul Barrett
Marsha Schweitzer (associate)
Phillip Gottling III (contra)

HOUSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Robert Atherholt
Anne Leek
Colin Gatwood
Larry Thompson (English horn)

BASSOONS
Benjamin Kamins
Eric Arbiter
Karen Pierson
J. Jeff Robinson (contra)

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Malcolm Smith
Sharon Possick-Lange
Roger Roe (English horn)

BASSOONS
Charles Rader
(acting principal and contra)
John Wetherill

JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Eric Olson
Claudia Minch (and English horn)
Charles McGee

BASSOONS
Mark Timmerman
Shinyee Na (and contra)

KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY

OBOES
Lora Schaefer-Berndt
Barbara Bishop
Ken Lawrence (English horn)

BASSOONS
Ann Radek (principal)
Michael Davis
(associate principal and contra)
Marita Abner

BASSOONS
David Breidenthal
Alan Goodman
Michele Grego
Patricia Kindel (contra)

BASSOONS
Matthew Karr (on leave)
Laurel Sharp
(acting principal)
Roger Soren
(assistant principal and contra)
David Horn

METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Elaine Douvas
John Ferrillo
Susan Spector
Robert Walters (English horn)

BASSOONS
Patricia Rogers
Whitney Crockett
Paul Cammarota
Toni Lipton

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Stephen Colburn
Bailey Gartner
Martin Woltman (English horn)

BASSOONS
Stephen Basson
Shawn Mouser
Beth W. Giocabassi (contra)

MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA
OBOES
Basil Reeve
Marilyn Zupnik
John Snow
Marni J. Hougham (English horn)

BASSOONS
John Miller, Jr.
Mark Kelley
J. Christopher Marshall
Norbert Nielubowski (contra)

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Rudolph Vrbsky
Carol Stephenson (assistant)
William Wielgus
Kathryn Meany (English horn)

BASSOONS
Sue Heineman
(acting principal)
Truman Harris (assistant)
David Savige
Lewis Lipnick (contra)

NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Carolyn Pollack
Richard Dallessio
(and English horn)

BASSOONS
Robert Wagner
Jean Gockowski (assistant)
Stephen Wisner

KENNEDY CENTER OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA

NEW YORK CITY OPERA ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Igor Leschishin
Kathleen Golding
Carole Libelo (English horn)

OBOES
Randall Wolfgang
Livio Caroli
Doris Goltzer

BASSOONS
Melanie Mattson
Donald Shore
Nancy Stutsman (contra)

BASSOONS
Frank Morelli
Bernadette Zirkuli
Cyrus Segal

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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

ST. PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Joseph Robinson
Sherry Sylar (associate)
Robert Botti
Thomas Stacy (English horn)

OBOES
Kathryn Greenbank
Thomas Tempel

BASSOONS
Judith LeClair
Marc Goldberg
(acting associate)
Leonard Hindell
Arlen Fast (contra)

NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY

OBOES
Melanie Wilsden
Michael P. Schultz (English horn)
Sandra Wehner Posch

BASSOONS
John Pederson
Victor Benedict

OREGON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Frederick Korman
Karen Wagner
Harris Orem (English horn)

BASSOONS
Mark Eubanks
Robert Naglee
Juan de Gomar (contra)

PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
OBOES
Richard Woodhams
Peter Smith (associate)
Jonathan Blumenfeld
Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia
(English horn)

BASSOONS
Daniel Matsukawa
Mark Gigliotti (co-principal)
Angela Anderson
Holly Blake (contra)

PHOENIX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Marian Pendell
Paula Engerer (English horn)

BASSOONS
Bonnie Wolfgang
Marlene Mazzuca
(assistant principal)
Erik Ludwig (contra)

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida
James Gorton (co-principal)
Scott Bell
Harold Smoliar (English horn)

BASSOONS
Nancy Goeres
David Sogg (co-principal)
Philip A. Pandolfi
Carlton A. Jones (contra)

ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

OBOES
BASSOONS
Laura Griffiths
Abraham Weiss
Jonathan Parkes (English horn)
Charles Bailey (contra)
Erin Hannigan
Martha Sholl
Priscilla Brown
ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
OBOES
Peter Bowman
Barbara Herr Orland (assistant)
Thomas Parkes
Marc Gordon (English horn)
Erin Gustafson

BASSOONS
George Berry
Robert Mottl (assistant)
Felicia Foland
Bradford Buckley (contra)

BASSOONS
Charles Ullery
Carole Mason Smith

SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Mark Ackerman
Hideaki Okada
Stephanie Shapiro (English horn)

BASSOONS
Sharon Kuster
Brian Petkovich
Ron Noble (contra)

SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Bill Banovetz
Betsy Spear
Lelie Resnick (English horn)

BASSOONS
Charlie Coker
Ryan Simmons

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ORCHESTRA

OBOES
William Banovetz
Marilyn Coyne (and English horn)

BASSOONS
Rufus Olivier
David Bartolotta (and contra)

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ORCHESTRA

OBOES
James Matheson
Deborah Henry
Janet Popesco Archibald
(English horn)

BASSOONS
Rufus Olivier
Jerry Dagg
Robin Elliott (contra)

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
William Bennett
Evgeny Izotov (associate)
Pamela Smith
Julie Ann Giocabassi
(English horn)

BASSOONS
Stephen Paulson
Steven Dibner (associate)
Rob Weir
Steven Braunstein (contra)

SYRACUSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Philip MacArthur
Patricia Sharpe
Daniel Carno (English horn)

BASSOONS
Gregory Quick (principal)
David Ross (contra)
Anthony DeAngelis

UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Robert Stephenson
James Hall
Holly Gornik (English horn)

BASSOONS
Douglas Craig
Mitchell Morrison
(associate and contra)
Christine Osborne

Some North American orchestras are not members of ICSOM. Here are the oboe and bassoon
sections of some of the major ones:

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SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC

OBOES
Bernard Shapiro
John DeJarnatt
Glen Danielson (English horn)

OBOES
Bruce Weinstein
Merrill Greenberg
(and English horn)
Tamar Narkiss-Melzer
Hermann Openstein

BASSOONS
Seth Krimsky
Paul Rafanelli
David Taylor (contra)

TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Richard Dorsey
Keith Atkinson (associate)
Frank Morphy
Cary Ebli (English horn)

BASSOONS
Michael Sweeney
Kathleen McLean (associate)
Mitchell Clarke
Fraser Jackson (contra)

ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL

OBOES
__________(principal vacant)
Margaret Morse (associate)
Alexa Zirbel
Pierre-Vincent Plante
(English horn)

BASSOONS
Stephane Levesque
Mathieu Harel
Suzanne Nelsen
Mark Romatz (contra)

VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Roger Cole
Elaine Reid
Beth Orson (English horn)

BASSOONS
Christopher Millard
John Gaudette
Kenneth Wagner (contra)

NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA OF OTTAWA

OBOES
Charles Hamann
Francine Schutzman

BASSOONS
Gerald Corey
Michael Namer

And here are the double reed sections of some

leading foreign orchestras:
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA OF LONDON
OBOES
Christopher Cowie (principal)
Gordon Hunt (principal)
Margaret Tindale
Jane Marshall (English horn)

BASSOONS
Meyrick Alexander (principal)
Robin ONeill (principal)
Michael Cole
Gordon Laing (contra)

ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE-ROMANDE (GENEVA)

OBOES
Jerome Capeille (principal)
Roland Perrenoud (principal)
Vincent Gay-Balmaz (assistant)
Sylvain Lombard
(and assistant English horn)
Jean-Pierre Surgat
(principal English horn)

BASSOONS
Celeste-Marie Roy (principal)
Alfonso Venturieri (principal)
Raynal Malsan (assistant)
Kathrin Herda (contra)
Norio Kato (contra)

BASSOONS
Zeev Dorman
Uzi Shalev
Gad Lederman
Carol Patterson (contra)

ORCHESTRE DE PARIS
OBOES
Michel Benet (soloist)
Alexandre Gattet (soloist)
Benoit Leclerc
Jean-Claude Jaboulay

BASSOONS
Marc Trenel (soloist)
Amaury Wallez (soloist)
Antoine Leroy
Yves dHau (contra)

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Roy Carter (principal)
Kieron Moore (principal)
John Lawley
Christine Pendrill (English horn)

BASSOONS
Rachel Gough (principal)
Robert Bourton (principal)
Nicholas Hunka
Dominic Morgan (contra)

ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW OF AMSTERDAM

OBOES
Werner Herbers (principal )
Jan Spronk (principal)
Nicoline Alt
Jan Kouvenhoven
Ruth Visser (English horn)

BASSOONS
Ronald Karten (principal)
Gustavo Nunez (principal)
Jos de Lange
Kees Olthuis
Guus Dral (contra)

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Diana Doherty
Simon Blount (associate)
Rixon Thomas
Alexandre Oguey (English horn)

BASSOONS
Matthew Wilkie
Roger Brooke (associate)
Fiona McNamara
Martin Foster (contra)

ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC
OBOES
Remco deVries
Alexei Ogrintchouk
Hans Cartigny
Ron Tijhuis (English horn)

BASSOONS
Johan Steinmann
__________position vacant
Marieke Storidan
Marianne Prommel
Hans Wisse (contra)

BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Albrecht Mayer (principal)
Hansjorg Schellenberger (principal)
Christoph Hartmann
Andreas Wittmann
Dominik Wollenberger
(English horn)

BASSOONS
Daniele Damiano (principal)
Stefan Schweigert (principal)
Henning Trog
Markus Weidmann
Marion Reinhard (contra)

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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON

HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC

OBOES
Julia Girdwood
David Thomas
David Presly

OBOES
Victoria Brawn
Alison Teale
Jessica Mogridge

BASSOONS
Andrea de Flammineis
Melbon Mackie
Andrew Stowell

BASSOONS
Kam Shui
Vance Lee
William Boddington

TEATRO ALLA SCALA, MILAN

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Francesco DiRosa
Marco Schiavon
Gaetano Galli
Giacomo Calderoni (English horn)
Renato Duca

OBOES
Jonathan Kelly
Karen OConnor
Peter Walden (English horn)

BASSOONS
Evandro DallOca
Valentino Zucchiatti
Fernando Bombardieri
Nicola Meneghetti
Gabriele Screpis (contra)

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
OBOES
Gottfried Boisits
Martin Gabriel
Gunter Lorenz
Walter Lehmayer
Alexander Ohlberger

BASSOONS
Michael Werba
Stepan Turnovsky
Harald Muller
Fritz Faltl
Reinhard Ohlberger

HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC
OBOES
Aale Lindgren
Jussi Jaatinen
Altti Nissila
Sven-Erik Paananen

BASSOONS
Tapio Lehtonen
Markus Tuukkanen
Matti Tossavainen

CZECH PHILHARMONIC
OBOES
Frantisek Kimel
Ivan Sequardt
Jiri Mihule
Vojtech Jouza
Jiri Zelba

BASSOONS
Jiri Seidl
Frantisek Herman
Ondrej Roskovec
Jaroslav Kubita
Josef Ketner

JAPAN PHILHARMONIC
OBOES
Takehiko Ura
Jiro Nakagawa
Hiromasa Matsuoka

BASSOONS
Masanobu Kimura
Kiyoshi Koyama
Kazushi Suzuki
Mitsunobu Nishimori

VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Harald Horth
Paul Kaiser
Peter Schreiber (and English horn)
Ernst Kobau (and English horn)
Wolfgang Zimmerl
(and English horn)

BASSOONS
Richard Galler
Patrick DeRitis
Wolfgang Kuttner
Wolfgang Kuhn
Peter Spitzl (contra)

BASSOONS
Andrew Barnell
John Schroder
Margaret Cookhorn (contra)

ORCHESTRE DE LA CAPITOLE-TOULOUSE
OBOES
Christian Fougeroux
Jean-Michel Picard
Serge Krichewsky
Jean-Louis Homs

BASSOONS
Lionel Belhacene
Christophe Vivies
Raymond Silvand
Jean-Pierre Lemoine

ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Stephane Rancourt
Clare Johnson
Stephen West (English horn)

BASSOONS
Julian Roberts
Allan Geddes
David Davidson (contra)

ROYAL STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC

OBOES
Jesper Harryson
Per Andersson
Andreas Lemke (English horn)
____________position vacant

BASSOONS
Jens-Chrstoph Lemke
Carl Johan Nordin
Christian Davidsson
Lennart Ivarsson
Jan-Erik Skoglund (contra)

OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

OBOES
Erik Niord Larsen (solo)
Simon Emes (alternate solo)
Matz Johan Pettersen
(and English horn)
Havard Norang (solo English horn)

BASSOONS
Per Hannisdal (solo)
Eirik Birkeland (alternate solo)
Frode Cato Carlsen
(and contra)
Linn Stokersen (and contra)

HALLE ORCHESTRA OF MANCHESTER

OBOES
Hugh McKenna
Virginia Shaw
Thomas Davey (English horn)

BASSOONS
Graham Salvage
Alison Lee-Browne
Steven Magee (contra)