Orchestra Roster

Juraj Valčuha

Music Director Designate Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair Steven Reineke Principal POPS Conductor Yue Bao Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation, Assistant Conductor Betsy Cook Weber Director, Houston Symphony Chorus

FIRST VIOLIN

Yoonshin Song, Concertmaster

Max Levine Chair Eric Halen, Co-Concertmaster

Ellen E. Kelley Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster

Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker Tong Yan MiHee Chung Sophia Silivos Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin

SECOND VIOLIN

MuChen Hsieh, Principal Amy Semes, Associate Principal Annie Kuan-Yu Chen Mihaela Frusina Jing Zheng Martha Chapman* Tianjie Lu Anastasia Ehrlich Tina Zhang Boson Mo Teresa Wang+

VIOLA

Joan DerHovsepian, Acting Principal Wei Jiang, Acting Associate Principal George Pascal*, Assistant Principal Sheldon Person Fay Shapiro Phyllis Herdliska Samuel Pedersen Elizabeth Golofeev+ Suzanne LeFevre+ Yvonne Smith+

CELLO

Brinton Averil Smith, Principal

Janice and Thomas Barrow Chair Christopher French, Associate Principal Anthony Kitai Louis-Marie Fardet Jeffrey Butler Maki Kubota Xiao Wong Charles Seo Jeremy Kreutz

DOUBLE BASS

Robin Kesselman, Principal Timothy Dilenschneider, Associate Principal Mark Shapiro Eric Larson Andrew Pedersen Burke Shaw Donald Howey

FLUTE

Aralee Dorough, Principal

General Maurice Hirsch Chair Matthew Roitstein, Associate Principal Judy Dines Kathryn Ladner

PICCOLO

Kathryn Ladner

COMMUNITY-EMBEDDED MUSICIANS

David Connor, double bass Rainel Joubert, violin

ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS

Luke Bryson Hae-a Lee

STAGE PERSONNEL

Stefan Stout, Stage Manager José Rios, Assistant Stage Manager Nicholas DiFonzo and Justin Herriford, Stage Technicians Giancarlo Minotti, Recording Assistant