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Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Band, US
Classical and Soundtrack
A.k.a. The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1977 out of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Its members are also the members of the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Pops is managed by the same administration. Erich Kunzel, the Pops' founding conductor, continued to lead the Pops until his death on September 1, 2009. It was Maestro Max Rudolf who, in 1965, invited Erich Kunzel, then a young conductor on the faculty of Brown University, to join the Cincinnati Symphony. That October the Dartmouth graduate, who had been personal assistant to the great French conductor Pierre Monteux, conducted his first sold-out 8 O'Clock Pops concert. From this orchestra eventually sprang the Cincinnati Pops. It was the beginning of a modern orchestral legend and, 30 years later, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is still performing for packed houses in Cincinnati's Music Hall and gaining new fans the world over through tour performances and its recordings on the Telarc label. In May 2008, it was announced that the Cincinnati Pops received an invitation to play at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. They were the only American orchestra invited to play for the opening weekend. Erich Kunzel died in 2009. In December 2010, John Morris Russell was named as the new director of the Pops, effective September 1, 2011.

Members

	Jim Pugh tb *1950 US
	Gerri Sutyak vc US
	Kathleen Robertson vn
	Mike Sharfe b US
	Mark Cleghorn vl
	Frank Heintze bsn
	Norman Johns vc US
	Lois Reid vn
	Laura McLellan vc
	Vince DiMartino tr
	Denise Doolan vn
	Randy Sandke tr *1949 US
	Judith Martin vl
	Frank Proto b *1941 US
	Marie Speziale tr
	Richard Jensen vib, perc US
	Philip Collins tr
	Marc Wolfley perc US
	Robin Graham frh, alp FR
	William Winstead bsn
	Alexander Kerr vn
	Gillian Benet hrp
	Randolph Bowman fl US
	Gillian Benet Sella hrp US
	Timothy Berens g
	Larrie Howard vn, vl US
	Lon Bussell ob US
	Scott Belck tr
	Julie Spangler p, key US
	Yumi Hwang Williams vn KR
	Michael Thornton tu, frh, alp US
	Ronald Aufmann bcl US
	Wayne Anderson b US
	Michael Berkowitz dr US
	Marna Street-Ramsey vl US
	William Harrod eh
	Sylvia Mitchell vn US
	William Platt perc
	Stacey Woolley vn
	Michael Chertock key, p
	Susan Marshall-Peterson vc
	Eugene Espino perc
	Duane Dugger frh
	Michael Kenyon rec, ob
	Harold Byers vn
	David Fishlock perc US
	Matthew Zory, Jr.
	Sari Eringer-Thoman vl
	Rick Vizachero b
	Rebecca Kruger Fryxell vn
	Peter Norton tb
	Michelle Edgar Dugan vn
	Charles Bell frh
	Daniel Culnan vc
	Catherine Lange-Jensen vn
	Thomas Sherwood frh
	Paul Frankenfeld vl
	Eric Bates vn
	Chiun-Teng Cheng vn
	Gerald Itzkoff vn
	Joan Voorhees
	Dana Rusinak vc
	Drake Crittenden Ash vn
	Ronald Bozicevich b
	James Braid vn
	Charles Snavely vc
	Douglas Lindsay tr
	Stephen Fryxell vl
	Owen Lee b, cb
	Scott Mozlin vn
	Sylvia Samis vn
	Matthew Lad vc
	David Moore vn
	Steven Rosen vl
	Luo-Jia Wu vn
	Hugh Michie bsn
	Richard Johnson ob
	Eric Kim vc
	Darla De Deppo Bertolone vn
	Paul Patterson man, vn GB
	Borivoje Angelich vn
	Robert Schauer frh
	James Eastman tb
	Donald Gibson vn
	Martin James bsn
	Robert Howes vl
	Richard Porotsky cl
	Carmine Campione cl
	Conny Kiradjieff vn
	DeAnne Cleghorn vn
	Raymond Stilwell vl
	Milton Blalack frh
	Tony Chipurn tb
	Charles Van Ornum b
	Joseph Somogyi vl
	Oscar Rubens Fernandez vn
	Kyril Magg fl
	Julian Wilkison vl
	Richard Hawley cl
	James Lambert b
	Serge Shababian vn
	Rochelle Doepke fl
	Steven Pride tr
	Hye-Sun Park vn
	Mark Rike vn