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.

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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
Principal

TBA

 

Clarinet
David Odom
Principal

John Warren

 

Bassoon
Carlos Clark
Principal

Debra Grove

 

Horn
David Bradley
Principal

Jason Eklund

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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.