Orchestra
Carl & Sally Gable Music Director
Arthur Fagen
Arthur Fagen has been the Carl and Sally Gable music director at The Atlanta Opera since 2010, and continues to be in great demand as a conductor of symphony and opera both in Europe and the United States. He is a regular guest at the most prestigious opera houses, concert halls, and music festivals at home and abroad, and his career has been marked by a string of notable appearances including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Staatsoper Berlin, Munich State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and New York City Opera.
From 1998 to 2001, Fagen was invited regularly to be guest conductor at Vienna State Opera. On the concert podium, Fagen has appeared with internationally renowned orchestras, including Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and RAI Orchestras of Turin, Naples, Milan, and Rome. From 2002 to 2007, he was the music director of Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera. He serves as Chair and Professor, Department of Orchestral Conducting at Indiana University in Bloomington.
A former assistant of Christoph von Dohnanyi (Frankfurt Opera) and James Levine (Metropolitan Opera), he served as principal conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, as chief conductor of Flanders Opera of Antwerp and Ghent, as music director of Queens Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the conducting staff for Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Fagen was born in New York and studied with Laszlo Halasz, Max Rudolf (Curtis Institute) and Hans Swarowsky. Fagen has an opera repertoire of more than 75 works and has recorded for Naxos and BMG. His Naxos recording of Bohuslav Martinůs works was awarded Editor’s Choice in the March 2010 issue of Gramophone Magazine.

Orchestra
The Carl & Sally Gable Music Director
Arthur Fagen
Violin
Peter Ciaschini
The Loraine P. Williams Orchestra Concertmaster Chair
Helen Kim
Assistant Concertmaster
Fia Durrett
Prinicipal Second Violin
TBA
Assistant Principal Second Violin
Edward Eanes
Felix Farrar
Sally Gardner-Wilson
Robert Givens
Patti Gouvas
Lisa Morrison
Shawn Pagliarini
Virginia Respess-Fairchild
Patrick Ryan
Angèle Sherwood-Lawless*
Jessica Stinson
Rafael Veytsblum
Viola
William Johnston
Principal
Catherine Allain
Assistant Principal
Ryan Gregory
Julie Rosseter
Karl Schab
Joli Wu
Cello
Charae Krueger
Principal
TBA
Assistant Principal
David Hancock
Mary Kenney
Cynthia Sulko
Bass
Daniel Tancredi
Principal
Emory Clements
Samuel Dugo
Flute
James Zellers
Principal
Kelly Bryant
Oboe
Christina Gavin
Acting Principal
TBA
Clarinet
David Odom
Principal
John Warren
Bassoon
Carlos Clark
Principal
Debra Grove
Horn
David Bradley
Principal
Jason Eklund

Trumpet
Yvonne Toll-Schneider
Principal
Alexander Freund
Trombone
William P. Mann
Principal
Richard Brady
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Donald Strand
Principal
Timpani
John Lawless
Principal
Percussion
Mike Cebulski
Principal
Harp
Susan Brady
Principal
Personnel Manager
James Zellers
Musicians employed are represented by the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.