Distinguished Alumni
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There are Meadowmount alumni performing in virtually every major orchestra and teaching in virtually every major University and Conservatory in the United States. Alumni of Meadowmount have won every major string competition worldwide. In addition, the following alumni are soloists, chamber music performers, concertmasters and principals of major orchestras.
“The thing that makes Meadowmount so unique is the atmosphere that comes from the history of this place. My experience has been so enriching and so much fun that it seems this is the only place I should be during the summers. “…Student quote
Maria Bachman
Zuill Bailey
Rachel Barton Pine
Martin Beaver
Joshua Bell
James O. Buswell IV
Andrés Cárdenes
Stephanie Chase
Kyung-Wha Chung
Glenn Dicterow
James Ehnes
Miriam Fried
Lynn Harrell
Daniel Heifetz
Ulf Hoelscher
Chin Kim
Dong-Suk Kang
Soovin Kim
Young-Uck Kim
Jaime Laredo
Huei Min Lee
Sergiu Luca
Yo-Yo Ma
Robert McDuffie
Itzhak Perlman
William Preucil
Eugene Sarbu
Gerardo Ribeiro
Dmitri Sitkovetsky
Janet Sung
Charles Treger
Kathleen Winkler
Peter Zazofsky
Pinchas Zukerman
Marjorie Bagley – Formerly Arcata String Quartet
Amy Barlowe – Duo[AB] 2
Martin Beaver – Montrose Trio, formerly Tokyo Quartet
Alan Bodman – Duo[AB] 2
Aaron Boyd – Escher String Quartet, Chamber Society of Lincoln Center
Earl Carlyss – Formerly Juilliard String Quartet
Andrés Cárdenes – Diaz Trio
Laurie Carney – American String Quartet
Charles Castleman – Formerly Raphael Trio
Ivan Chan – Formerly Miami String Quartet
John Marcus – Enso String Quartet
Kathy Meng – Miami String Quartet
Violaine Melançon – Peabody Trio
Stephen Miahky – Blair String Quartet
Daniel Morganstern – American Chamber Trio
Clancy Newman – Weiss/Kaplan/Newman Trio
Peter Oundjian – Formerly Tokyo Quartet
Daniel Panner – Formerly Mendelssohn String Quartet
Daniel Phillips – Orion String Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Todd Phillips – Orion String Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Gerardo Ribeiro – Meadowmount Trio
Keith Robinson – Miami String Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Sara Sant’Ambrogio – Eroica Trio
David Salness – Formerly Audubon Quartet
Amy Schwartz Moretti – Ehnes Quartet
Lawrence Shapiro – Formerly Audubon Quartet, Fine Arts Quartet
Camden Shaw – Dover String Quartet
Laurie Smukler – Founding member of Mendelssohn Quartet
Frantisek Soucek – Zemlinsky Quartet
Arnold Steinhardt – Guarneri String Quartet
Michael Tree – Guarneri String Quartet
Brandon Vamos – The Pacifica String Quartet
Walter Verdehr – Verdehr Trio
David Ying – Ying Quartet
Ira Weller – Formerly Mendelssohn String Quartet
Matthew Zalkind – Harlem String Quartet
Peter Zazofsky – Muir Quartet
Daniel Andai – Miami Symphony Orchestra
Cecylia Arzewski – Formerly Atlanta Symphony
Nurit Bar-Josef – National Symphony Orchestra
Emanuelle Boisvert – Formerly Detroit Symphony, Associate Concertmaster Dallas Symphony
Benjamin Bowman – Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Aaron Boyd – Formerly Tucson Smphony Orchestra
Andrés Cárdenes – Formerly Pittsburgh Symphony
Skye Carman – Formerly Netherlands Holland Symphonia
Martin Chalifour – Las Angeles Philharmonic
Robert Chen – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Steven Copes – Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
James Crawford – Grand Rapids (MI) Symphony
Glenn Dicterow – Formerly New York Philharmonic
Arturo Delmoni – New York City Ballet
Bruce Dukov – Formerly Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Nick Eanet – Formerly Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir – Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Joyce Hammann – Orchestra of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
William Harvey – Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Mexico
Charles Haupt – Formerly Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Hung – Dayton Philharmonic & Annapolis Symphony
Henry Hutchinson – Puerto Rico Symphony
Jacques Israelievitch – Formerly Toronto Symphony
Huie-Sheng Kao – Asst. Concertmaster Pittsburgh Symphony
Alexander Kerr – Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Marjorie Kransberg – Formerly Northwest Chamber Orchestra & Pacific Northwest Ballet
Aimee Kreston – Formerly L’Orchestre du Paris
Michael Lim – Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra
Malcolm Lowe – Boston Symphnony Orchestra
Jun-Ching Lin – Asst. Concertmaster Atlanta Symphnoy
David Nadien – Formerly New York Philharmonic
Ronald Neal – Dallas Opera Orchestra
Dene Olding – Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia)
William Preucil – Cleveland Orchestra
Anne McIlveen Rapson – Formerly Symphony Nova Scotia
Richard Roberts – Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Brian Reagin – North Carolina Symphony
Amy Schwarts Moretti – Formerly Oregon Symphony, Florida Symphony
Jan Mark Sloman – Formerly Associate Concertmaste Dallas Symphony
Josef Špaček – Czech Philharmonic
Semy Stahlhammer – Stockholm Royal Opera and Ballet Orchestra
Sheryl Staples – Associate Concertmaster New York Philharmonic
Denise Tarrant (neé Couch) – Houston Ballet and Grand Opera Orchestra
David Taylor – Assistant Concertmaster Chicago Symphony
Jing Wang – Hong Kong Philharmonic
Charles Weatherbee – Formerly Columbus (OH) Symphony
Andrew Zaplatynsky – Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Robert Zimansky – Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Zurich Symphony Orchestra
Neal Cary, Principal Cello, Richmond Symphony
Choong-Jin Chang, Principal Viola, The Philadelphia Orchestra
Daniel Domb, Principal Cello, Formerly Toronto Symphony
Robert DeMaine, Principal Cello, Los Angeles Philharmonic
John Ewing, Principal Second Violin, Columbus Symphony
Robert Gardner, Principal Cello, Formerly New York City Opera
Glenn Garlick, Asst. Principal Cello, National Symphony
Marc Ginsberg, Principal Second Violin, Formerly New York Philharmonic
Michael Grebanier, Principal Cello, San Francisco Symphony
Desmond Hoebig, Principal Cello, Formerly Cleveland and Houston Symphonies
Ronald Leonard, Principal Cello, Formerly Los Angeles Philharmonic
Roger Low, Principal Cello, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Stephen Majeske, Principal Second Violin, Formerly Cleveland Orchestra
Barbara Meek, Principal Second Violin, Formerly Louisville Orchestra
Daniel Morganstern, Principal Cello, Formerly Chicago Lyric Opera, American Ballet Theatre
Hai-Ye Ni, Principal Cello, Philadelphia Orchestra
Susanna Smith Onwood, Principal Cello, Formerly Louisville Symphony
Paul Pesthy, Principal Viola, South German Radio Orchestra
Jonathan Spitz, Principal Cello, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Peter Stumpf, Principal Cello, Formerly Los Angeles Philharmonic
Chong-Chien Tan, Principal Second Violin, Oregon Symphony
Robert Vernon, Principal Viola, Cleveland Orchestra
Isaias Zelkowicz, Assoc. Principal Viola, Formerly Pittsburgh Symphony
Carnegie Mellon University:
Andrés Cárdenes (retired)
Cleveland Institute of Music:
Robert Vernon, Jaime Laredo, Jan Mark Sloman, Jeffrey Irvine, Richard Weiss, William Preucil
Colburn School:
Martin Beaver, Robert Lipsett, Ronald Leonard, Arnold Steinhardt
Curtis Institute of Music:
Ida Kavafian, Yumi Ninomiya Scott, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree
Indiana University:
Allan deVeritch, Mauricio Fuks, Mimi Zweig, Alexander Kerr, Brandon Vamos
The Juilliard School:
Heidi Castleman, Ann Setzer(Pre-College Division), Sally Thomas, Sylvia Rosenberg, Donald Weilerstein, Lewis Kaplan, Laurie Smukler, Earl Carlyss
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts:
Ivan Chan, Michael Ma
Korea National University for the Arts:
Nam Yun Kim, Sungju Lee
The Manhattan School of Music:
Patinka Kopec, Glenn Dicterow, Kazuhida Isomuro, Pinchas Zukerman, Todd Phillips, Laurie Carnie
Mercer University Robert McDuffie Center for Strings:
Amy Schwartz Moretti, Director
Music Institute of Chicago:
Addison Teng
New England Conservatory:
Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Soovin Kim, Nicholas Kitchen, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Malcolm Lowe, Martha Strongin Katz
New World School of the Arts:
Daniel Andai
Northwestern University:
Hans Jørgen Jensen, Gerardo Ribeiro, Blair Milton
Oberlin Conservatory of Music:
Gregory Fulkerson
Peabody Conservatory:
Herbert Greenberg
Queens College:
Daniel Phillips
Rice University:
Desmond Hoebig, Kathleen Winkler, Paul Kantor
Seoul National University:
Young Uck Kim
Stockholm Royal Music College:
Semy Stahlhammer
Tel-Aviv Academy of Music:
Chaim Taub
Toho Gakuen School:
Koichiro Harada, Toshiya Eto, Kenji Kobayashi
University of Colorado, Boulder:
Charles Wetherbee
University of Houston:
Fredell Lack (retired)
University of Michigan:
Andrew Jennings
University of Minnesota:
Sally O’Reilly
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Kevin Lawrence, Janet Orenstein
University of So. California:
Martin Chalifour, Michael Tree
Yale University:
Peter Oundjian, Ani Kavafian