Each year since its founding in 1919, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been hailed as Southern California's leading performing arts institution. Today, under the dynamic leadership of Esa-Pekka Salonen who became the orchestra's tenth music director in 1992, the Philharmonic is recognized as one of the world's outstanding orchestras. Both at home and abroad it has, as the Berliner Zeitung stated, "...proved that it belongs among the best in the United States."
The Orchestra (Click on name for biographical details.)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Joana Carneiro, Assistant Conductor
Lionel Bringuier, Assistant Conductor
Ward Stare, ASOL Conducting Fellow
Steven Stucky, Consulting Composer for New Music
First Violins
Martin Chalifour, Principal Concertmaster, Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair
Alexander Treger, Concertmaster, Ernest Fleischmann Chair
Bing Wang, Associate Concertmaster
Mark Baranov, Assistant Concertmaster, Philharmonic Affiliates Chair
Tamara Chernyak
Michele Bovyer
Rochelle Abramson
Camille Avellano
Elizabeth Baker
Robert Vijay Gupta
Mischa Lefkowitz
Edith Markman
Judith Mass
Mitchell Newman
Barry Socher
Lawrence Sonderling, on sabbatical
Stacy Wetzel
Second Violins
Lyndon Johnston Taylor, Principal, Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair
Mark Kashper, Associate Principal
Kristine Hedwall
Johnny Lee
Dale Breidenthal
David Chernyavsky
Ingrid Chun
Chao-Hua Jin
Nickolai Kurganov
Guido Lamell
Varty Manouelian
Paul Stein
Yun Tang
Jonathan Wei
SuLi Xue
Violas
Position Vacant, Principal, John Connell Chair
Dale Hikawa Silverman, Associate Principal
Jerry Epstein
Richard Elegino
Dana Hansen
John Hayhurst
Ingrid Hutman
Hui Liu
Meredith Snow
David Stockhammer
Leticia Oaks Strong
Minor L. Wetzel
Cellos
Peter Stumpf, Principal, Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair
Daniel Rothmuller, Associate Principal, Sadie and Norman Lee Chair
Ben Hong, Assistant Principal
Jonathan Karoly
Stephen Custer
David Garrett
Barry Gold
Jason Lippmann
Gloria Lum
Serge Oskotsky
Brent Samuel
Peter Snyder
Basses
Dennis Trembly, Principal
Christopher Hanulik, Principal
Oscar M. Meza, Assistant Principal
David Allen Moore
Jack Cousin
Richard D. Kelley, on sabbatical
Peter Rofé
John Schiavo
Frederick Tinsley
Flutes
Anne Diener Zentner, Principal, Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair
Position Vacant, Principal, Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Catherine Ransom Karoly
Sarah Jackson
Piccolo
Oboes
Ariana Ghez, Principal
Marion Arthur Kuszyk, Associate Principal
Anne Marie Gabriele
Carolyn Hove
English Horn
Clarinets
Michele Zukovsky, Principal
Lorin Levee, Principal
Monica Kaenzig, Mauk/Nunis Chair
David Howard
E-Flat Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Bassoons
Shawn Mouser, Associate Principal
Michele Grego
Patricia Kindel
Contrabassoon
Horns
William Lane, Principal
Eric Overholt, Associate Principal
Elizabeth Cook-Shen, William and Sally Rutter Chair
Brian Drake, Loring Charitable Trust Chair
Bruce Hudson
Ethan Bearman, Assistant, Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
Trumpets
Donald Green, Principal
James Wilt, Associate Principal
Christopher Still
Boyde Hood
Trombones
Steven Witser, Principal
James Miller, Associate Principal, Abbott and Linda Brown Chair
Herbert Ausman
Bass Trombone
John Lofton
Tuba
Norman Pearson, Minturn Family Foundation Chair
Timpani and Percussion
Raynor Carroll, Principal Percussion
James Babor
Perry Dreiman
Keyboards
Joanne Pearce Martin, Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
Harp
Librarians
Kazue Asawa McGregor
Kenneth Bonebrake
Stephen Biagini
Personnel Manager
Production Director
Paul M. Geller
