• First Violins
Biographies >
Pieter Schoeman
Leader
Vesselin Gellev
Sub-Leader
Chair supported by John and Angela Kessler
Katalin Varnagy
Catherine Craig
Thomas Eisner
Tina Gruenberg
Martin Höhmann
Chair supported by
Richard Karl Goeltz
Geoffrey Lynn
Robert Pool
Sarah Streatfeild
Yang Zhang

• Second Violins
Biographies >
Jeongmin Kim
Joseph Maher
Kate Birchall
Chair supported by David and Victoria Graham Fuller
Nancy Elan
Fiona Higham
Nynke Hijlkema
Marie-Anne Mairesse
Ashley Stevens
Andrew Thurgood

• Violas
Biographies >
Robert Duncan
Gregory Aronovich
Katharine Leek
Susanne Martens
Benedetto Pollani
Emmanuella Reiter-Bootiman
Laura Vallejo

• Cellos
Biographies >
Kristina Blaumane
Principal
Susanne Beer
Co-Principal
Francis Bucknall
Laura Donoghue
Santiago Sabino Carvalho'
Jonathan Ayling
Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie and Zander Sharp
Gregory Walmsley
Susanna Riddell
Sue Sutherley


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• Double Basses
Biographies >
Kevin Rundell
Principal
Tim Gibbs
Co-Principal
Laurence Lovelle
George Peniston
Richard Lewis

• Flutes
Biographies >
Jaime Martin
Principal
Susan Thomas
Stewart McIlwham

• Piccolo
Stewart McIlwham
Principal

• Oboes
Biographies >
lan Hardwick
Principal
Angela Tennick
Sue Bohling

• Cor Anglais
Sue Bohling
Principal
Chair supported by
Julian & Gill Simmonds

• Clarinets
Biographies >
Robert Hill
Principal
Nicholas Carpenter
Paul Richards

• E flat Clarinet
Nicholas Carpenter
Principal

• Bass Clarinet
Paul Richards
Principal

• Bassoons
Biographies >
Gareth Newman
Simon Estell

• Contra Bassoon
Simon Estell
Principal

• Horns
Biographies >
John Ryan
Principal
Martin Hobbs
Mark Vines
Co-Principal
Gareth Mollison

• Trumpets
Biographies >
Paul Beniston
Principal
Anne McAneney
Chair supported by
Geoff and Meg Mann
Nicholas Betts
Co-Principal
Daniel Newell

• Trombones
Biographies >
Mark Templeton
Principal
David Whitehouse

• Bass Trombone
Biography >
Lyndon Meredith
Principal

• Tuba
Biography >
Lee Tsarmaklis
Principal

• Timpani
Biography >
Simon Carrington
Principal

• Percussion
Biographies >
Andrew Barclay
Co-Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Keith Millar

• Harp
Biography >
Rachel Masters
Principal

• Board of Directors
Martin Höhmann
Chairman
Lord Currie of Marylebone*
Jonathan Dawson*
Stewart McIlwham
Vice Chairman
Gareth Newman
George Peniston
Sir Bernard Rix*
Kevin Rundell
Sue Bohling
Timothy Walker AM


*Non-Executive Directors

' Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco

Teaching positions held by Orchestral members >