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 David Cramer
Associate Principal Flutist
Philadelphia Orchestra |
| David Cramer, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1981 as Assistant Principal, and became the Associate Principal Flute in 1984. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, his teachers have included Murray Panitz, William Hebert, Barbara Peterson, and James Pappoutsakis. He also played in Master Classes with Marcel Moyse. He has participated in the Tanglewood Festival and the Central City Colorado Opera Festival. Before joining The Philadelphia Orchestra he was a member of the Montreal and Pittsburgh Symphonies. He is a frequent chamber-music performer in the Philadelphia area and has appeared as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Haddonfield (NJ) Symphony, the West Jersey Chamber Symphony, and the Temple University Orchestra. Mr. Cramer has served on the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University and the New School of Music and currently teaches at Temple University |
 Loren Lind
Flutist
Philadelphia Orchestra |
| A member of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1974, Loren N. Lind was born in Honolulu, where he attended the University of Hawaii. He studied with the principal flutists of the Honolulu Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, and the NHK Symphony of Tokyo. In Philadelphia, he studied with Murray Panitz, who was The Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal flute at the time. Mr. Lind has served in the flute sections of the Honolulu Symphony and the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Orchestra, and has appeared as soloist with the Honolulu Symphony and the Hawaii Youth Orchestra. In the Delaware Valley, he is a member of the Conwell Woodwind Quintet at Temple University. He has appeared on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Chamber Music Series on numerous occasions, and has performed in many concerts, both orchestral and chamber, throughout the region. |
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 Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia
Oboist
Philadelphia Orchestra
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Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1995. An active English horn soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Masoudnia premiered Nicholas Maw’s English Horn Concerto, a piece commissioned for her by The Philadelphia Orchestra, in 2005. Her performance of the work was subsequently broadcast on National Public Radio. Ms. Masoudnia, fomerly with Minnesota Orchestra, has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and performed with the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia (now the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia) and the New York Symphonic Ensemble on four tours of Japan and Southeast Asia. She is a featured artist on a CD of Beethoven and Triebensee oboe trios, released on the ASV Quicksilver label. A native of Philadelphia, Ms. Masoudnia graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with John de Lancie. |
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| Bassoon |
 Mark Gigliotti
Co-Principal Bassoonist
Philadelphia Orchestra
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Mark Gigliotti, former Principal Bassoonist of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Solo Bassoon of the Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, has been a member of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1982. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including a solo performance with The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Music Directors Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. In 2001 he recorded the Weber Bassoon Concerto and Andante and Hungarian Rondo, the Mozart Bassoon Concerto, and the Richard Strauss Duet-Concertino with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, later performing all nine Mahler Symphonies with Klaus Tennstedt. He has been on the faculty of The College of New Jersey and the New School of Music, has taught chamber music at the Curtis Institute, and has presented master classes in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. Mr. Gigliotti made his conducting debut at The Curtis Institute of Music in 1979, and was recently one of five finalists for the position of Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra. His musical ties extend to his family, having studied with his father, former Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Anthony Gigliotti, and his grandfather, Joseph Gigliotti, and studied piano with his mother, BiAmelia Gigliotti. |
