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Ramona Pansegrau
Music Director, Kansas City Ballet

William Whitener. Photographer Ken Coit  
   

Kansas City Ballet Music Director Ramona Pansegrau comes to Kansas City via the Boston and Tulsa ballet companies, where she held the positions of principal pianist, solo pianist, music director, and conductor respectively.

She has been called one of the best ballet pianists in the world. Robert Joffrey said of her ballet class, “The perfect music for every combination.” She was music director for Tulsa Ballet for nine years, and conductor of the Tulsa Symphony orchestra for ballet performances before she became the Kansas City Ballet music director in October of 2006. She was principal pianist/solo pianist for ten years at the Boston Ballet and tenured keyboard for the Boston Ballet Orchestra for fifteen years.
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Kansas City Symphony
Michael Stern, Music Director
Steven Jarvi, Associate Conductor

FIRST VIOLINS
Gregory Sandomirsky,
  Associate Concertmaster
Sunho Kim
  Assistant Concertmaster
Ginni Rader
Alex Shum
*Vladimir Rykov
*Anne-Marie Brown
Susan Goldenberg
Paul Hatton-Soto
*Jessica Wakefield Hao
*Anthony DeMarco
*Tomoko Iguchi
*Andrew Fuller
*Dorris Dai Janssen

SECOND VIOLINS
Tamamo Someya Gibbs, Principal
Kathy Haid Berry, Associate Principal
Kristin Velicer, Assistant Principal
*Kevin Hao
*Sara Hurst
*Mary Garcia Grant
*§ Eri Kosaka
*Karen Klein
*David Repking
*Francesca Manheim
*Nancy Beckmann
*§ Chia Fei Lin
*‡ Tina Cho Johnson

VIOLAS
Christine Grossman, Principal
Matthew Rombaum, Associate Principal
Jessica Nance, Assistant Principal
*Jenifer Richison
*Laura Fuller
*Marvin Gruenbaum
*Kent Brauninger
*Duke Lee
*Sean Brumble

CELLOS
Mark Gibbs, Principal
Robert A. Kipp Chair
Susie Yang, Associate Principal
Alexander East, Assistant Principal
*Lawrence Figg
*Rung Lee
*§ Richard Bell
*‡ Matthew Johnson
*Ho Anthony Ahn
*John Eadie
*Allen Probus

DOUBLE BASSES
Jeffrey Kail, Principal
Nancy Newman, Associate Principal
*§ Brian Johnson
* Kenneth Mitchell
Louis Newman, Principal Emeritus
* Ed Paulsen

FLUTES
Michael Gordon, Principal
Shannon Finney, Associate Principal
Diane Schick

PICCOLO
Diane Schick

OBOES
§ J. Scott Janusch, Principal
Shirley Bush Helzberg Chair
Barbara Bishop, Associate Principal
Kenneth Lawrence

ENGLISH HORN
Kenneth Lawrence

CLARINETS
Raymond Santos, Principal
Boris Allakhverdyan, Associate Principal
Forrest Philpott

E-FLAT CLARINET
Boris Allakhverdyan

BASS CLARINET
Forrest Philpott

BASSOONS
Ann Bilderback, Principal
§ Miles Maner, Associate Principal
Marita Abner

CONTRABASSOON
§ Miles Maner

HORNS
Alberto Suarez, Principal
David Sullivan, Associate Principal
Elizabeth Schellhase
§ Ross Snyder
‡ Kelly Cornell
Stephen Multer

TRUMPETS
Gary Schutza, Principal
Philip Clark, Associate Principal
Brian Rood

TROMBONES
Roger Oyster, Principal
Porter Wyatt Henderson,
   Associate Principal
Graeme Mutchler

BASS TROMBONE
Graeme Mutchler

TUBA
Steven Seward, Principal

TIMPANI      
Timothy Jepson, Principal

PERCUSSION
Christopher McLaurin, Principal
Joseph Petrasek, Associate Principal

HARP
Deborah Wells Clark, Principal

LIBRARIANS
Elena Lence Talley, Principal
Jennifer Feldman

                                                               

Justin White,
   Personnel Manager

Jim Vinzant, Stage Manager

Ben Julius, Assistant Stage Manager

 

 

* Rotating Musician
§ New Member
‡ On Leave of Absence