Margot Golding, Principal Oboe Season Chair Sponsor: William & Lynn Callender Principal oboist Margot Golding joined the Marin Symphony in 1998. She spent 33 years as a commercial banking executive, while also performing with the Oakland Symphony, the California Symphony and the Fremont Symphony. Not one to slow down, she...
Meet Jeremy Constant, Concertmaster
Jeremy Constant, Concertmaster Chair Endowment: The Catherine Munson Chair Sponsor This Musician Bio: After winning the Grand Prize in the 1979 Du Maurier competition in Canada, Jeremy studied in New York with Ivan Galamian and then with the great violinist Itzhak Perlman before making the San Francisco Bay Area his...
Meet Jenny Douglass, Principal Viola
Jenny Douglass, Principal Viola Season Chair Sponsor: Steven & Sally Schroeder Chair Endowment: The Elsie Rigney Carr Chair Bio: Jenny began her musical life at age four as a Suzuki violinist in Chapel Hill, NC. She was introduced to the viola at age thirteen during a summer music camp in...
Meet Robert Ashley, Principal Bass
Interview by Lily O'Brien Season Chair Sponsor: Nancy Thelen Rehkopf Robert Ryan Ashley, the Principal Bassist with the Marin Symphony since 2009, is in demand. He commutes all over the Bay Area to perform with a number of orchestras, including the Silicon Valley Symphony, the Berkeley Symphony, and the Napa...
Meet Tyler Mack, Principal Timpanist
Interview by Lily O'Brien Season Chair Sponsor: The Hughes Family Oakland native Tyler Mack has always been fascinated by the sound of a symphony orchestra. He says the experience was riveting for him as a child when he attended youth concerts. His parents originally started him on piano and he...
Stuart Chafetz Named as New Principal Pops Conductor
In response to audience demand, and in an effort to reach a larger segment of the community, the Marin Symphony Association today announced that with its expansion of Pops programming Stuart Chafetz has been appointed to the new position of Principal Pops Conductor of the Marin Symphony. Maestro Alasdair Neale...
MSYO Tour 2019 – June 28th, Journey Home
MSYO Tour 2019 – June 27th, Budapest
MOM Cultural Center, Csorz
Vienna MuTH Concert Hall, June 25th
From the notebook of Michelle Glover, MSYO Task Force Volunteer We are now on the road to Budapest. The trip is flying by! Last night’s concert was a great success... it was held in a beautiful, modern venue (where the Vienna Boys Choir performs) and the audience, which was comprised...
MSYO Tour 2019 – Prague, June 22nd
Rehearsing (in the hotel’s breakfast room transformed into a rehearsal venue)! Downtown Prague MSYO Fearless Leader, Andrei Gorchov, Youth Programs Administrator