{"id":5380,"date":"2010-10-01T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:05:38","slug":"new-musicians-join-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/01\/new-musicians-join-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"new musicians join symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a spate of auditions at the end of last season, and the results netted us three new musicians who are all now settled in Portland and playing with the orchestra.\u00a0 They are Principal timpanist Jonathan Greeney, oboist and English hornist Kyle Mustain, and violist Silu Fei.\u00a0 Here’s a little info about each:<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Greeney, principal timpani \u2013 Greeney earned a graduate degree in percussion performance at Cleveland State University following undergraduate study at Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Peabody Institute in Baltimore. From 2006 to 2008, he was assistant principal timpanist for the Orquestra Sinfonica de Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico. Greeney also has performed with the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra and the Youngstown and Toledo symphonies in Ohio.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Mustain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kyle Mustain, oboe and English horn \u2013 Mustain, a Virginia native, earned his master\u2019s degree in music at Yale University and bachelor\u2019s at Philadelphia\u2019s Curtis Institute of Music. Before winning the Oregon Symphony\u2019s audition in spring 2010, he played English horn for two seasons with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Minas Gerais in Brazil and had been a member of the Indianapolis, Richmond and Houston symphonies. Since 2004, Mustain also has performed each summer with the Santa Fe Opera orchestra.<\/p>\n

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Silu Fei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Silu Fei, viola \u2013 Fei holds an artist diploma from Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles and an undergraduate degree in viola performance from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China. He joins the Oregon Symphony following a decade of experience with both symphony and youth orchestras in Asia and the United States, including the San Francisco Symphony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a spate of auditions at the end of last season, and the results netted us three new musicians who are all now settled in Portland and playing with the orchestra.\u00a0 They are Principal timpanist Jonathan Greeney, oboist and English hornist Kyle Mustain, and violist Silu Fei.\u00a0 Here’s a little info about each: Jonathan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[238,2],"tags":[3676,2390,2387,2389,3668,2388,3660],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auditions","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-auditions","tag-english-horn","tag-new-hires","tag-oboe","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-timpany","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5708,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/06\/oregon-symphony-welcomes-four-new-musicians\/","url_meta":{"origin":5380,"position":0},"title":"oregon symphony welcomes four new musicians","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"After a series of auditions held this past Fall, the Oregon Symphony will welcome four new musicians to its ranks after the winter break concludes Friday.\u00a0 With violist Silu Fei, timpanist Jonathan Greeney and English hornist Kyle Mustain already here (and sounding fantastic), this brings our number of new musicians\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "auditions"","block_context":{"text":"auditions","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/auditions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Ted-Botsford-200x337.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7464,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/01\/concert-report-for-march-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":5380,"position":1},"title":"concert report for march 31","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight we played a concert that seems completely standard by modern symphony orchestra standards. 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