• First Violins
Biographies >
Pieter Schoeman
Leader
Vesselin Gellev
Sub-Leader
Chair supported by John and Angela Kessler
Ilyoung Chae
Chair supported by
Moya Greene
Katalin Varnagy
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Catherine Craig
Thomas Eisner
Tina Gruenberg
Martin Höhmann
Geoffrey Lynn
Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
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

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

• Cellos
Biographies >
Kristina Blaumane
Principal
Francis Bucknall
Laura Donoghue
Santiago Sabino Carvalho'
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 >
Sue Thomas
Chair supported by The Sharp Family
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
David Pyatt
Principal
Chair supported by Simon Robey
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
Principal
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Keith Millar

• Harp
Biography >
Rachel Masters
Principal
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

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