Music Director

Otto Tausk

VSO Music Director

Music Director Emeritus

Bramwell Tovey

Conductor

Conductor Laureate

Kazuyoshi Akiyama

Conductor

Assistant Conductor

Andrew Crust

Assistant Conductor (Marsha & George Taylor Chair)

First Violin

Nicholas Wright

Concertmaster (Ron and Ardelle Cliff Chair)

Timothy Steeves

Associate Concertmaster (William and Irene McEwen Chair)

David Lakirovich

Assistant Concertmaster (Robert G. and Suzanne Brodie Chair)

Jennie Press

Second Assistant Concertmaster

Jae-Won Bang

First Violin

Mary Sokol Brown

First Violin (Mrs. Cheng Koon Lee Chair)

Jenny Essers

First Violin

Akira Nagai

Associate Concertmaster Emeritus

Monica Pegis

First Violin

Xue Feng Wei

First Violin

Rebecca Whitling

First Violin

Yi Zhou

First Violin

Second Violin

Carina Vincenti

Karen Gerbrecht

Associate Principal Second Violin (Jim and Edith le Nobel Chair)

Jeanette Bernal-Singh

Assistant Principal Second Violin

Cassandra Bequary

Second Violin

Adrian Shu-On Chui

Second Violin

Daniel Norton

Second Violin

Ann Okagaito

Second Violin

Ashley Plaut

Second Violin

Viola

Victor de Almeida

Principal Viola

Andrew Brown

Associate Principal Viola

Stephen Wilkes

Assistant Principal Viola

Emilie Grimes

Viola (Dr. Malcolm Hayes and Lester Soo Chair)

Tegen Davidge

Viola

Matthew Davies

Viola (Estelle and Michael Jacobson Chair)

Angela Schneider

Viola (Professors Mr. and Mrs. Ngou Kang Chair)

Cello

Janet Steinberg

Acting Principal Cello

Zoltan Rosznyai

Assistant Principal Cello

Olivia Blander

Cello (Gerhard and Ariane Bruendl Chair)

Natasha Boyko

Cello (Mary and Gordon Christopher Chair)

Charles Inkman

Cello

Luke Kim

Cello

Cristian Márkos

Cello (Tim Wyman and Susan Gabe Chair)

Bass

Dylan Palmer

Principal Bass

Evan Hulbert

Associate Principal Bass

Noah Reitman

Assistant Principal Bass

David Brown

Bass

J. Warren Long

Bass

Frederick Schipizky

Bass

Flute

Christie Reside

Principal Flute (Ron and Ardelle Cliff Chair)

Chris James

Assistant Principal Flute, Piccolo (Hermann and Erika Stölting Chair)

Rosanne Wieringa

Flute (Michael and Estelle Jacobson Chair)

Piccolo

Chris James

Assistant Principal Flute, Piccolo (Hermann and Erika Stölting Chair)

Oboe

Roger Cole

Principal Oboe (Wayne and Leslie Ann Ingram Chair)

Beth Orson

Assistant Principal Oboe, English Horn (Chair in Memory of John S. Hodge)

Karin Walsh

Oboe (Paul Moritz Chair)

English Horn

Beth Orson

Assistant Principal Oboe, English Horn (Chair in Memory of John S. Hodge)

Clarinet

Jeanette Jonquil

Principal Clarinet (Robert G. and Suzanne Brodie Chair)

Michelle Goddard

Clarinet

Aidan Wong

Clarinet (One-Year Contract)

E-Flat Clarinet

Michelle Goddard

Clarinet

Bassoon

Julia Lockhart

Principal Bassoon

Sophie Dansereau

Assistant Principal Bassoon

Gwen Seaton

Bassoon

Contrabassoon

Sophie Dansereau

Assistant Principal Bassoon

French Horn

Oliver DeClercq

Principal French Horn

Russell Rybicki

French Horn (Werner and Helga Höing Chair)

David Haskins

Associate Principal French Horn

Andrew Mee

French Horn (Winslow and Betsy Bennett Chair)

Richard Mingus

Assistant Principal French Horn

Trumpet

Larry Knopp

Principal Trumpet

Marcus Goddard

Associate Principal Trumpet

Vincent Vohradsky

Trumpet (W. Neil Harcourt in memory of Frank N. Harcourt Chair)

Trombone

Brian Wendel

Principal Trombone

Bass Trombone

Ilan Morgenstern

Bass Trombone (Arthur H. Willms Family Chair)

Tuba

Peder MacLellan

Principal Tuba

Timpani

Aaron McDonald

Principal Timpani

Percussion

Vern Griffiths

Principal Percussion (Martha Lou Henley Chair)

Michael Jarrett

Percussion

Tony Phillipps

Percussion

Piano

Linda Lee Thomas

Principal Piano & Celeste (Carter (Family) Deux Mille Foundation Chair)