Meet the APO
Music Director | Bass | Bass Clarinet | Bassoon | Cello | Clarinet | Flute | French Horn | Oboe | Percussion | Piano | Piccolo | Saxophone | Trombone | Trumpet | Tuba | Viola | Violin |Music Director
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David Felberg (Conductor)
David Felberg, conductor, is currently the music director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra and music director/co-founder of Chatter, a chamber orchestra dedicated to presenting 20th and 21st century chamber orchestra repertoire. He is also principal conductor of the Albuquerque Chamber Soloists. David made his operatic conducting debut with the Emerald City Opera’s production of The Magic Flute in the summer of 2003. David has guest conducted both the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Symphony, and the Beaux Arts Festival Orchestra in Steamboat Springs, CO. For the past two years, he has co-conducted the NMSO in their yearly production of the Nutckracker. David holds a master of music degree in instrumental conducting from the University of New Mexico, where he studied with Dr. Jorge Perez-Gomez. He has attended the Conductor’s Workshop at Bard College under the tutelage of Harold Farberman, and has also studied privately with maestro Bernard Rubenstein. In the summer of 2000, David attended the prestigious American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, where he worked with maestros David Zinman and Murray Sidlin, and with renown conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula. David is also in demand as a violinist, and he is currently the associate concertmaster with the New Mexico Symphony. He has been a concerto soloist with the NMSO, and the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, and is in demand as a recitalist and chamber musician, in New Mexico and the Southwest. He made his NYC, Merkin Hall violin recital debut in the summer of 2005.
Bass
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String Bass Principal
Stuart Zimny
- Jim Hontas
Bass Clarinet
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Bassoon Principal
Brian Tuffnell (President)
- Icel Kendrick
Cello
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Cello Principal
Richard Strauss (Publicity)
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Assistant Cello Principal
Merrill (Pete) Palmer
- Enid Bradley
- Jill Bunting
- Sam Clark
- Christin Dobbeck
- Adriana (Janie) Foris
- Vicki Hontas
- Robin Purto
- Merry Wadsworth
- Priscilla Williams
Clarinet
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Clarinet Principal
Cindy Farslow
- Beverly Ortiz
Flute
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Flute Principal
Carolyn Anderson
- Kelly Brown
- Mary Sebring
French Horn
Top- Anne Ferguson-Laird
- Melissa Freeman
- Barbara Lukes
- Bill Swift (Director of Development)
- Sue Thomas
Oboe
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Oboe Principal
Mary Anne D'Arcangellis
Percussion
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Percussion Principal
Jon Sundell
- Josh Etzkin
- Rick Kennedy
Piano
Top- Anne Ferguson-Laird
Piccolo
Top- Kelly Brown
Saxophone
Top- Cindy Farslow
Trombone
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Trombone Principal
Rich Anderson
- Alan Clawson (Treasurer)
- Jed Rowley
Trumpet
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Trumpet Principal
Joe Walters
- Kinley Culbertson
- John Golobic
Tuba
Top- Brad Boyce
Viola
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Viola Prinicpal
Karl Winkler
- Jessica Coyle
- Antoinette Drabek-Lazarin
- Tammy Kasprzak
- Chris Lombardo
- Ramona Myers
- Gretchen Obenauf
- Susan Rati Lane (Secretary)
- Karen Schindwolf
Violin
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Concertmaster (one year leave of absence)
Marianne Walck
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Principal 2nd Violin
Canice Laubhan
- Christine Brush
- Joyce Carabajal (Personnel)
- Catherine Castro
- Adam Church
- Wendy Cieslak
- Patrick Clark
- Andrew Frostman
- Kate Gentry
- Kim Heintzman
- Hillary Higgins
- Betty Hume
- Judy Jones
- Larry Jones (Librarian)
- Melissa Kennedy
- Maria Eugenia Kuajara
- Lynn Landrigan
- Carolyn Muggenburg
- Debbie Risberg
- Elizabeth Rivers
- Martha Strauss
- Julie Taylor
- Jeremiah Wall
- Cindy Young