The Hanover Wind Symphony’s members are from the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and represent many professional backgrounds. Approximately half are professional music educators and the rest have a diverse set of occupations including business executives, teachers and engineers to name a few. The musicians’ average tenure is 15 years, with one-third having tenures of 20 years or more. All of the musicians are selected by audition and are strongly committed to volunteering their time and talents to the group.

FLUTE

 Ellen Bloemeke

* Drusilla Gaffney

Lynne Hendricks

Barbara Hutchins

Krista Jadro

Mindy Kahn

Ruth Pace

 KarenBeth Wilderotter

OBOE

* Karen Cavaliere

Lynn Grice

BASSOON

 Deb Irmiter

* Elaine Schlatter

Joanne Willans

Bb CLARINET

Adolph Austin

Jeanette Basilicato

Tom Burtnett

Carol Carpasso

John Centenaro

Janet Clifford

Dimitry Chernavsky

Peter D’Angelo

Joe Elliott

George Estes

Karen Ford

Susanne Hughes

Maria Komoroski

* Carlyn Smith

Joseph Streit

BASS CLARINET

 Brendan Hughes

Allison Testa

ALTO SAXOPHONE

 Christine Paterno

* Margaret Sodt

TENOR SAXOPHONE

 Ed Abelew

BARITONE SAXOPHONE

 Russell Ford

TRUMPET

Mike Aleshevich

Omar Arnouk

Peter Bauer

Charles Christine

Eric Mazurkiewicz

Christian Orrico

* John Schumacher

Len Stern

Matt Testa

Dan Traglia

Kurt Zimmermann

HORN

Kevin Bidwell

Genevieve Costa

* Michele Hughes

Emily Palmieri

Betty Peters

Renee Sachs

Jillian Vogel

TROMBONE

 Lisa Mac Vicar

Chris Montague

* Paul Somer

Glenn Sullivan

Steve Sullivan

Robert Vogel

EUPHONIUM

Megan Alexander

Adam Freeman

Dan Masi

Max Oh

TUBA

Phil Hughes

* Doug Hummer

Joe Melody

Colin Murray

Rob Ruth

 TIMPANI

 Aldo Cugnini

PERCUSSION

* Jim Doyle

Mariam Kahn 

Jared Penn

Kevin Schadel

Daniel Vazquez

 THE VOICE

Jim Sodt

* Principal/Section Leader

updated 10/15/11