FIRST VIOLIN

Zsolt Eder, Concertmaster
Topeka Symphony League Chair
Kristin Mortenson, Associate

Concertmaster
Virginia Wade Chair
Molly Wisman
Norma A. Pettijohn Chair

Kenya Patzer

Prof. Dr. Charles A. Goetz Memorial Chair
Carlos Cabezas
The Rev. Roger M. Goetz Chair
Jonathan Eddy
Anne-Katharine E. Goetz Memorial Chair

Cheng Hu

Betty Bokelheide Goetz Chair

Kimberly Marlin

Dr. John W. Strickler Chair

given by Rev. Roger Goetz Family
Joanna Metsker

Anne-Katharine E. Goetz’s son Jayson Smith Chair

Katherine Okesson

Anne-Katharine E. Goetz’s son Alexander “Ike” L. Holm Chair

Jill Woodhouse
Craig Yorke

SECOND VIOLIN

Donna L. Mealy, Principal

Herbert and Esther Moses Family Chair
Julie Wykert
Maxine Anton Chair
Matthew Bennett

James M. Gannon
Anna Kraxner

Ethan Loewen

Laura McGill*

Mary Lyndal Nyberg
Carolyn Roy
LeAnne Baehni Schultz

Melanie Paris Wambsganss


VIOLA

James Starr, Principal

Everett Fetter Memorial Chair

Lisa Janssen

Virginia & Helen Hocker Chair

Solmer Alvarez

Lois Dexter Chair given by Drs. Grace and Michael Morrison

Carlos Espinosa
Donita McLeland
Art Sandquist
Shokhrukh Sadikov

Carolyn Sandquist

Gloria Scolari

Molly Zahn

CELLO

Ellen O’Hayer, Principal

Stan and Jody Teeter Family Chair
Carolyn Rich Voth
Rebecca Sisk Foerschler Chair

Martha G. Barnhill

Alice Bean

David Boese

Eman Chalshotori
Jenith Hoover
Hyerim Jeon

Lan Jiang
Brigetta Sandquist

Joseph Teeter
Tracy Teague Tugman*

BASS

Breta Bloomberg, Principal
Oswald Backus V

Kathleen Covert Maag Chair
Brian Council

JoEllen McGranahan

Matt McGrory

Noah McNair

Bobby Scharmann


FLUTE

Katie Howard, Interim Principal
Jonathan Borja


PICCOLO

Carla E. Stone
Diana Osterhout Chair


OBOE

Mark Rustman, Principal

James M. Mosher*

Katherine Woolsey

ENGLISH HORN

James M. Mosher*

CLARINET

J.D. Parr, Principal
James K. Van Slyke Memorial Chair
Lynne Leifer
Lolafaye Coyne Chair

BASS CLARINET

Frank Sidorfsky
Marvin W. Maydew Chair

BASSOON

Allan Comstock, Principal
Floyd C. Hedberg Memorial Chair
Ginger R. Patterson

CONTRABASSOON

Bruce Gbur

FRENCH HORN

Katie Grose, Principal
Joanne Marie Field
Virginia & Helen Hocker Chair
Breanna Ellison
Dwight Purvis
Jamie Sanborn

TRUMPET

William D. Cooper, Principal
Peter E. Stern
Virginia Wade Chair
Don McDaniel
Stephen J. Patterson

TROMBONE

Neal C. Purvis, Principal
Rick Baker, Interim
Jeremy Dowden**

BASS TROMBONE

Scott Bradley

TUBA

Jason Tacker

TIMPANI

Neil Dunn

PERCUSSION

Bob Keckeisen, Principal
Shawn Evans*
Jack and Ilene Ecord Chair
Andrea Michel-Cox
Michael Sisk Memorial Chair
Amie Walter

HARP

Tabitha Reist Steiner

PIANO

Char Taggart
Dr. Phillip Sisk Memorial Chair

Art Sandquist, Librarian

Aaron Springer, Stage Manager


Seating within string sections changes with each concert.

Names are listed alphabetically with the exception of first stands and musicians sitting in endowed chairs.

*Orchestra Committee Member

**On leave of absence