The Columbus, Ohio-based ProMusica Chamber Orchestra has appointed STEPHANIE BLAHA as principal horn and ILYA SHTERENBERG as principal clarinet, effective with the start of the current season.
Stephanie Blaha is currently the assistant principal horn of the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago and serves as third horn with the Pittsburgh Opera. Previously, she was the third/associate principal horn of the Winston-Salem Symphony and performed regularly with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Blaha held the position of fourth horn with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 2005-2009. She has also performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, North Carolina Symphony, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Ilya Shterenberg, who currently also holds the position of principal clarinet with the San Antonio Symphony, has been featured as a soloist with San Antonio and Charleston symphonies, performing works by Mozart, Weber, Rossini, Debussy, and Strauss, as well as rarely heard clarinet concertos by Krommer and Kurpinsky. He has been featured as principal clarinet with the Cincinnati and Seattle symphonies and has collaborated with conductors including Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Barenboim, George Solti, and Pierre Boulez.
In addition, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra has named JENNIFER ROSS as principal second violin and KOKO WATANABE as section violin. Violinist REBECCA WILLIE, who has been with ProMusica since 2015, has been appointed assistant concertmaster.
Posted September 25, 2018
