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Over 300,000 people each year attend performances of this Grammy -award-winning orchestra in Benaroya Hall , located in Downtown Seattle . Its season runs from September through July. Under Schwarz's leadership, the orchestra has become particularly known for performing works of 20th Century Composers , especially of neglected American composers. Together, Schwarz and the orchestra have recorded a sizable number of pieces, including the major orchestral works of Howard Hanson . In addition to its own concerts, the Seattle Symphony serves as the pit orchestra for most productions of the Seattle Opera , including that company's annual Wagner presentations each summer. Music directors prior to Schwarz have included the noted American composer Henry Hadley (1909-11), John Spargur (1911-21), Basil Cameron (1932-38), Nikolai Sokoloff (1938-40), renowned British conductor Thomas Beecham (1941-44), Manuel Rosenthal (1949-51), and longest of all by Milton Katims (1954-76). The orchestra's first performance was given on December 29 , 1903 , with Harry West conducting. Known from its founding as the Seattle Symphony, it was renamed in 1911 as the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1919 , the orchestra was reorganized with new bylaws under the name Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Even so, for most of its 100-year history, and especially today, the ensemble is known by the two-word name "Seattle Symphony." 2005-2006 MUSICIANS First violin Jennifer Bai Mariel Bailey Cecilia Poellein Buss Jun Liang Du Ayako Gamo Timothy Garland Simon James Peter Kaman Leonid Keylin Maria Larionoff Mikhail Shmidt Clark Story John Weller Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Arthur Zadinsky Second violin Stephen Bryant Linda Cole Xiao-po Fei Gennady Filimonov Wesley Fisk Sande Gillette Artur Girsky Virginia Hunt Luce Michael Miropolsky Kenneth Moore Eric Scott Kathleen Stern Andrew Yeung Viola Susan Gulkis Assadi Vincent Comer Penelope Crane Wesley Anderson Dyring Mara Gearman Timothy Hale James T. Kilian Arie Schachter Dorothy Shapiro Richard Skerlong Rachel Swerdlow Cello Bruce Bailey Theresa Benshoof Raymond Davis Roberta Hansen Downey Walter Gray Vivian Gu David Sabee Susan Williams Amos Yang Bass Jordan Anderson Jonathan Burnstein Jennifer Godfrey Jonathan Green Nancy Page Griffin Joseph Kaufman Sandra Lambert Ronald Simon Flute Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Scott Goff Judy Kriewall Oboe Ben Hausmann Nathan Hughes English horn Stefan Farkas Clarinet Laura DeLuca Larey McDaniel Christopher Sereque Bassoon Mike Gamburg Seth Krimsky Paul Rafanelli Horn Susan Carroll John Cerminaro Jeff Fair Adam Iascone Mark Robbins Scott Wilson Trumpet Geoffrey Bergler David Gordon Richard Pressley Trombone Stephen Fissel David L. Ritt Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Tuba Christopher Olka Percussion Randolph Baunton Michael Clark Michael Crusoe Ron Johnson Harp Valerie Muzzolini EXTERNAL LINKS |
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