Faculty Bios
Trumpets
Douglas Lindsay*
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1991. B.M., Baldwin Wallace University. Primary Teachers include James Darling, William Vacchiano, Phillip Collins and Mary Squires.
Steven Pride*
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1980. B.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Primary Teachers include Eugene Blee and Arnold Jacobs.
Christopher Kiradjieff
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1996. B.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Primary Teachers include Phillip Collins and Micheal Sachs.
French Horns
Elizabeth Freimuth
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2006. B.M., Eastman, M.M., Rice University. Primary teachers include Verne Reynolds, W.Peter Kurau and William VerMeulen.
Molly Norcross
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2019. B.M. and M.M., Juilliard. Primary teachers include William Purvis, Jennifer Montone and Richard Sebring.
Lisa Conway
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2008. B.A., Yale and M.M., Juilliard. Principal Teacher, William Purvis.
Duane Dugger
Member of the CSO since 1991.
Charles Bell
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1982. B.M. and M.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Principal Teacher, Michael Hatfield.
Thomas Sherwood*
1988-2019 Associate Principal Horn, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (retired) B.A., Oberlin College. Primary teachers include Hermann Baumann, Arnold Jacobs, Roland Pandolfi and Robert Fries.
Trombones
Cristian Ganicenco
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1999. B.A., National University of Music (Bucharest, Romania), M.A., Carnegie Mellon. Principal teachers include Byron McCulloh, Rebecca Cherian and Joseph Alessi.
Joseph Rodriguez
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2015. A.D., Juilliard. M.M., DePaul University and B.M. University of Texas at Arlington. His primary teachers include Joseph Alessi, Mark Fisher, Jay Friedman, Charles Vernon, Darren McHenry, Dennis Bubert and Andrew Russell.
Peter Norton
Member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 1985. B.M., University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Primary teacher Tony Chipurn.
Tuba
Christopher Olka*
B.M., from the University of Central Florida, and a M.M., from the Juilliard School. Member of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2016. Primary teachers include Warren Deck, Abe Torchinsky and Joseph Alessi.
Conductors
Daniel Wiley
Jaime Morales
Gary Speck
Faculty at Miami University since 1991. B.M. and B.M.E., Baylor University, M.M., University of Michigan.
* Denotes Miami University Faculty who are also members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra