Welcome to the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée
Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director
The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the Mostly Mozart Festival and is the only orchestra in the U.S. dedicated to the music of the Classical period. Members of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra come from all over the world, performing in such premier orchestras and ensembles as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, MET Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others.
Internationally celebrated conductor Louis Langrée has been music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival since December 2002, and was named Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director in August 2006. Each summer since 2005, the Festival Orchestra’s David Geffen Hall home at Lincoln Center is transformed into an appropriately intimate venue for its performances. Over the years, the Festival Orchestra has toured to such notable festivals and venues as Ravinia, Great Woods, Tanglewood, Bunkamura in Tokyo, and the Kennedy Center.
Conductors who made their New York debuts leading the Festival Orchestra include Jérémie Rhorer, Edward Gardner, Lionel Bringuier, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, and Edo de Waart. Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, flutist James Galway, soprano Elly Ameling, and pianist Mitsuko Uchida all made their U.S. debuts with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
Violin
Ruggero Allifranchini, ConcertmasterLaura Frautschi, Principal Second
Martin Agee
Eva Burmeister
Robert Chausow
Lilit Gampel
Michael Gillette
Suzanne Gilman
Amy Kauffman
Sophia Kessinger
Katherine Livolsi-Landau
Kayla Moffett
Maureen Nelson
Ronald Oakland
Michael Roth
Deborah Wong
Mineko Yajima
Viola
Shmuel Katz, PrincipalMeena Bhasin
Danielle Farina
Chihiro Allen
Elzbieta Weyman
Cello
Ilya Finkelshteyn, PrincipalTed Ackerman
Ann Kim
Alvin McCall
Bass
Lou Kosma
Jeffrey Turner
Principal
Flute
Jasmine Choi, PrincipalTanya Dusevic Witek
Oboe
Nick MastersonClarinet
Jon Manasse, PrincipalChristopher Pell
Bassoon
Marc Goldberg, PrincipalTom Sefčovič
Horn
Lawrence DiBello, PrincipalRichard Hagen
Trumpet
Neil Balm, PrincipalRaymond Riccomini
Timpani
David Punto, PrincipalMusic Librarian
Michael McCoyPersonnel Managers
Neil BalmJonathan Haas