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Giancarlo Guerrero
- Music Director and Conductor
Marin Alsop - Conductor Laureate
Giancarlo Guerrero
Music Director and Conductor
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Now in his second season as Music Director and Conductor
of the Eugene Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero also serves as Associate Conductor of
the Minnesota Orchestra and appears regularly as guest conductor with symphony orchestras
and opera companies throughout the United States and Latin America.
Under Giancarlo Guerrero's leadership, the Eugene Symphony
will host four of America's premier composers. This season Pulitzer Prize winner
Aaron Jay Kernis, Pulitzer and Oscar winner John Corigliano, and much acclaimed Philadelphia
composer Jennifer Higdon join us for West Coast premieres of their latest works.
The Eugene Symphony brought John Adams, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and current
composer-in-residence at Carnegie Hall, to Eugene for a performance of the Adams
Violin Concerto in January 2003.
This summer Giancarlo returned to Costa Rica to conduct
their National Symphony and a new opera production of Bizet's Carmen. In addition
to the exciting season in Eugene, his 2003-04 season also brings debuts with the
Dallas Symphony and Seattle Symphony. Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances
with the Detroit Symphony, the national Symphony in Washington, DC, San Antonio Symphony,
Oregon Symphony and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. During his tenure with the Minnesota
Orchestra, he has distinguished himself by conducting programs featuring the works
of Prokofiev, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, de Falla, Chavez, Liszt and Stravinsky, and the
world premiere of John Corigliano's "Phantasmagoria on the Ghost of Versailles."
Born in Nicaragua and raised in Costa Rica, Mr. Guerrero
received his bachelor's degree in percussion from Baylor University in Texas and
his master's degree in conducting from Northwestern University in Illinois. Giancarlo,
his wife Shirley, and their two young daughters make their home in Minneapolis, with
frequent trips to Eugene.
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Marin
Alsop
Conductor Laureate
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Currently Music Director of the Colorado Symphony, the Cabrillo
Festival, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra,
Marin Alsop led the Eugene Symphony from 1989-1996 in her first full-time appointment
as Music Director and Conductor. During Alsop's tenure, the ESO achieved new levels
of artistic excellence and garnered national recognition, performing to critical
acclaim at the American Symphony Orchestra League's national conference and on NPR's
Performance Today. At the end of Alsop's seven seasons, the Eugene Symphony
named her Conductor Laureate in honor of her outstanding contribution to the orchestra
and to this community.
Newly appointed Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Britain,
Marin has been enjoying a busy career on three continents. In North America, recent
engagements include the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Minnesota and Toronto. Her international
presence has skyrocketed with guest engagements with the London Symphony, Orchestre
de Paris, Toulouse National Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony,
and a tour of Norway and Germany with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.
Early in her career, Marin Alsop was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Conducting
Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she studied with Mr. Bernstein,
Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier. She won the coveted Koussevitzky Conducting Prize,
the only woman in Tanglewood's history to receive that honor, and was also a prize
winner at the Leopold Stokowski International Conducting Competition in New York.
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VIOLIN I
Marka Wilcox Akins,
Concertmaster
Blayne Barnes, Assistant Concertmaster
Dan Athearn
Lisa Bieber
Stephen Chong
Tanya Couture
Anthony Dyer
Rosemary Erb
Dan Flanagan
Yvonne Hsueh
Dana Lines Mahoney
Sharron Smith
Siripong Tiptan
Norma Wilson
VIOLIN II
Angela Svendsen, Principal
Peggy G. Rubinstein, Assistant Principal
David Burham
Amy Jo Butler
Gale Fiszman
Jean N. Glausi
Virginia A. Kaiser
Claudia Miller
Susan Y. Powell
Gretchen Tucker
Marilyn Tyler
Linda D. Winn
VIOLA
Abigail Stoughton, Principal
Kjersten Oquist, Assistant Principal
Nathan Cammack
Hanya Etter
Anamaria Ghitea
Shauna Keyes
John Lundblade
Jacqueline Schmidt
Jacqueline J. Schwandt
(top)
VIOLONCELLO
Sylvie Spengler, Principal
David Chinburg, Assistant Principal
Dale Bradley
Jeffrey Eaton
Ann Grabe
James Pelley
Gabrielle Arness
Nancy Sowdon
Matthew Wilkinson
BASS
Richard Meyn, Principal
Forrest Moyer, Assistant Principal
Tyler Abbott
Rick A. Carter
Irene Katsura
Greg Nathan
Nathan Waddell
FLUTE
Kristen Halay, Principal
Wendy Karden Bamonte
Jill Pauls
PICCOLO
Jill Pauls
OBOE
Kelly M. Berge, Principal
Cheryl Wefler
Annalisa Morton
(top)
ENGLISH HORN
Annalisa Morton
CLARINET
Michael Anderson, Principal
Cindi Bartels
Carol Robe
BASS CLARINET
Carol Robe
BASSOON
Mike Curtis, Principal
Richard M. Long
Charlene Decker
David C. Hattenhauer
CONTRA BASSOON
Charlene Decker
HORN
Edward McManus, Principal*
Steve Hayworth, Acting Principal
Deanna McGlothin*
Michael Hettwer
Scott King
Matt Monroe*
TRUMPET
George Recker, Principal
Richard J. Berg Jr.
David Bender
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TROMBONE
Jeffrey Williams, Principal
Ronald K. Bertucci*
James P. Meyer
TUBA
Michael Grose, Principal
TIMPANI
Charles Dowd, Principal
PERCUSSION
Tim Cogswell, Principal
Brian Scott
Randal D. Larson*
Brenda Trowbridge
Sean Wagoner
KEYBOARD
Christine Mirabella, Principal
HARP
Jane Allen, Principal
Deanna McGlothin, Personnel Manager
Cynthia Thiessen, Librarian
*Denotes leave of absence.
String sections are listed alphabetically with the exception of the first two chairs
in each section.
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