News & Notes

Andrew Raciti was a member of the NRO in 1996, and principal in 1997. After getting his masters degree at Rice University under the tutelage of Paul Ellison, Andy won a position as Associate Principal Bass with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Australia. In 2006 he...

An alumna of the NRO when it was the Colorado Philharmonic located in Evergreen, CO, Carole Whitney was a member of the cello section in 1974.  Already a student at Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, she had carved out a dream to have a job as a member of a...

Richard Deane is the newly appointed Associate Principal Horn of the New York Philharmonic, joining that orchestra in the fall of 2014 after 28 years as Third Horn of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. While in Atlanta, Richard participated in almost 100 recordings with...

Pictured from left to right, Nicholas Caluori, Drew Mangus and Nicole (de la Cal) Caluori are all NRO alumni, all are graduates of Southern Methodist University under the tutelage of Gregory Hustis and all currently make up 3/4 of the horn section in the West Point...

Violinist Fiona Hughes holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Cleveland Institute of Music, and is an Artistic Director of Three Notch'd Road: the Charlottesville Baroque Ensemble (www.tnrbaroque.org) which is now in its fifth season.   She is a versatile...

NRO 2008 alumna, Christine Carter is now the Assistant Professor of Single Reeds at Memorial University in Canada.  Christine is also pursuing research on effective music practice strategies as a visiting scholar at Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute.  This...

After Jarrett McCourt attended the NRO in 2014, he was appointed as Principal Tuba of the New World Symphony. A few months before that, Mr. McCourt won the top prize in the brass division of the Montreal Symphony's Standard Life competition, and was the first tuba...

Young Kim, NRO 2012 horn, is in his third season as 4th Horn of the Sarasota Orchestra in Sarasota, FL! Mr. Kim states, "I've actually gone back to Breckenridge as a member of the Breckenridge Music Festival for the past two summers. It was not only good to see...