2023-2024 BSO Annual Report

▪ Susan W. and Stephen D. Paine Resident Fellow 
* participating in a system of rotated seating  
˚ on leave 

ANDRIS NELSONS Ray and Maria Stata Music Director, endowed in perpetuity, and Head of Conducting at Tanglewood  

SEIJI OZAWA (1935–2024) Music Director Laureate  

THOMAS WILKINS Germeshausen Youth and Family Concerts Conductor, endowed in perpetuity 

FIRST VIOLINS  

Nathan Cole Concertmaster Charles Munch chair, endowed in perpetuity 

Tamara Smirnova ˚ First Associate Concertmaster Helen Horner McIntyre chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Alexander Velinzon Associate Concertmaster Robert L. Beal, Enid L., and Bruce A. Beal chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Elita Kang Assistant Concertmaster Edward and Bertha C. Rose chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Yuncong Zhang John and Dorothy Wilson chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Lucia Lin Dorothy Q. and David B. Arnold, Jr., chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Ikuko Mizuno Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Jennie Shames* Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser chair  

Valeria Vilker Kuchment* Kristin and Roger Servison chair  

Tatiana Dimitriades* Donald C. and Ruth Brooks Heath chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Si-Jing Huang* Ronald G. and Ronni J. Casty chair  

Wendy Putnam* Robert Bradford Newman chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Xin Ding* Mary B. Saltonstall chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Glen Cherry*  

Lisa Ji Eun Kim*  

Jenny Ahn*  

Takumi Taguchi* 

SECOND VIOLINS  

Haldan Martinson Principal Carl Schoenhof Family chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Julianne Lee˚ Assistant Principal Charlotte and Irving W. Rabb chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Sheila Fiekowsky Shirley and J. Richard Fennell chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Nicole Monahan David H. and Edith C. Howie chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Aza Raykhtsaum*  

Bonnie Bewick*  

James Cooke*  

Victor Romanul*  

Catherine French*  

Jason Horowitz*  

Ala Jojatu*  

Bracha Malkin* Brooks and Linda Zug chair  

Sophie Wang* 

VIOLAS  

Steven Ansell Principal Charles S. Dana chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Cathy Basrak Assistant Principal Anne Stoneman chair, endowed in perpetuity 

Danny Kim Lois and Harlan Anderson chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Rebecca Gitter*˚  

Michael Zaretsky*  

Rachel Fagerburg*  

Daniel Getz*  

Kathryn Sievers*  

Mary Ferrillo*  

Steven O. Laraia*  

Leonardo Vásquez Chacón  ▪   

CELLOS  

Blaise Déjardin Principal Philip R. Allen chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Oliver Aldort Assistant Principal Vernon and Marion Alden chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Alexandre Lecarme˚ Mischa Nieland chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Mickey Katz Stephen and Dorothy Weber chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Owen Young* John F. Cogan, Jr., and Mary L. Cornille chair, endowed in perpetuity 

Mihail Jojatu* Sandra and David Bakalar chair  

Adam Esbensen* Richard C. and Ellen E. Paine chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Will Chow* Nancy and Richard Lubin chair  

Jonah Ellsworth*  

Christine Lee*  

Roric Cunningham* 

BASSES  

Edwin Barker Principal Harold D. Hodgkinson chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Lawrence Wolfe Assistant Principal Maria Nistazos Stata chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Benjamin Levy Leith Family chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Dennis Roy  

Todd Seeber* Eleanor L. and Levin H. Campbell chair, endowed in perpetuity  

John Stovall*  

Thomas Van Dyck* E.D. Rushworth chair  

Carl Anderson*  

Joseph Hearne  

Andres Vela ▪ Volpe Family chair 

FLUTES  

Elizabeth Rowe Principal Walter Piston chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Clint Foreman Myra and Robert Kraft chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Elizabeth Klein Associate Principal Marian Gray Lewis chair, endowed in perpetuity  

PICCOLO  

Cynthia Meyers Evelyn and C. Charles Marran chair, endowed in perpetuity  

OBOES  

John Ferrillo Principal Mildred B. Remis chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Mark McEwen James and Tina Collias chair  

Keisuke Wakao Assistant Principal Farla and Harvey Chet Krentzman chair, endowed in perpetuity  

ENGLISH HORN  

Robert Sheena Beranek chair, endowed in perpetuity  

CLARINETS  

William R. Hudgins Principal Ann S.M. Banks chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Christopher Elchico  

Thomas Martin Associate Principal & E-flat clarinet Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis chair, endowed in perpetuity 

BASS CLARINET  

Andrew Sandwick  

BASSOONS  

Richard Svoboda Principal Edward A. Taft chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Suzanne Nelsen John D. and Vera M. MacDonald chair  

(position vacant) Associate Principal Diana Osgood Tottenham/ Hamilton Osgood chair, endowed in perpetuity  

CONTRABASSOON  

Samuel Watson Helen Rand Thayer chair  

HORNS  

Richard Sebring Principal Helen Sagoff Slosberg/ Edna S. Kalman chair, endowed in perpetuity  

(position vacant) Associate Principal Margaret Andersen Congleton chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Rachel Childers*˚ John P. II and Nancy S. Eustis chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Michael Winter Elizabeth B. Storer chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Jason Snider Jean-Noël and Mona N. Tariot chair  

TRUMPETS  

Thomas Rolfs Principal Roger Louis Voisin chair, endowed in perpetuity 

Benjamin Wright  

Thomas Siders Associate Principal Kathryn H. and Edward M. Lupean chair 

Michael Martin Ford H. Cooper chair, endowed in perpetuity  

TROMBONES  

Toby Oft Principal J.P. and Mary B. Barger chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Stephen Lange  

BASS TROMBONE  

James Markey John Moors Cabot chair, endowed in perpetuity  

TUBA  

Mike Roylance Principal Margaret and William C. Rousseau chair, endowed in perpetuity  

TIMPANI  

Timothy Genis Sylvia Shippen Wells chair, endowed in perpetuity  

PERCUSSION  

J. William Hudgins Peter and Anne Brooke chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Daniel Bauch Assistant Timpanist Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Linde chair  

Matthew McKay Peter Andrew Lurie chair, endowed in perpetuity 

HARP  

Jessica Zhou Principal Nicholas and Thalia Zervas chair, endowed in perpetuity by Sophia and Bernard Gordon  

VOICE AND CHORUS  

James Burton BSO Choral Director and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky chair, endowed in perpetuity  

LIBRARIANS  

D. Wilson Ochoa Principal Lia and William Poorvu chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Mark Fabulich  

Russel Allyn  

ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS  

Earl Lee Anna E. Finnerty chair, endowed in perpetuity  

Samy Rachid  

STAGE MANAGER  

John Demick