Violinist Christina Bouey takes up the leading role alongside five other violin appointments

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Violinist Christina Bouey

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The Albany Symphony has announced the appointment of ten new orchestra musicians, including new concertmaster Christina Bouey.

Five violinsts have been appointed to join the orchestra. They are Amelia Bailey, Ariana Cappon, Colin Laursen, Eliane Menzel and Alisa Wyrick. Caleb Breidenbaugh joins as principal percussion, Lauren Henning as principal bassoon, Sarah Bobrow as second basson and Daniel Ketter as principal clarinet.

Bouey said she was ‘ecstatic’ to have won the concertmaster position. She begins her role with concerts this weekend under music director David Alan Miller.

’We are so excited to welcome these ten extraordinary musicians to our orchestra family,’ said Miller. ’They are all absolutely brilliant artists who won highly competitive auditions.

’We are particularly honoured and delighted to welcome Christina Bouey as our new concertmaster; she is an absolutely world-class artist, as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. We can’t wait to share with you how beautiful our great orchestra sounds!’

Bouey performs with the Ulysses Quartet and is an assistant professor at Ithaca College. She has won prizes at the Waldo Mayo Violin Competition, Vietnam International Chamber Competition, Schoenfeld International String Competition, Fischoff Competition, American Prize and the Osaka International Chamber Competition.

She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow among others, and earned her Bachelor of Music from the Boston Conservatory.

Bouey plays a 1790 Storioni violin on generous loan from a private donor.

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