Toronto Symphony recruits 7 new musicians
NewsThe orchestra is having a seven percent personnel turnover on the eve of its centenary season.
The new intake are:
Michael Casimir, Principal Viola; Alex Liedtke, Associate Principal Oboe; Luri Lee, Violin; Song Hee Lee, Lucia Ticho and Oleksander Mycyk, Cellos; Christopher Reiche Boucher, Principal Librarian.
By my count, the OSM has eight new musicians listed on the program this year, two internal promotions (Victor Fournelle-Blain from associate to principal viola, Catherine Turner from 2nd to principal horn), as well as 15 open positions (including some filled by interims). Among those open positions is a concertmaster post to replace Richard Roberts, retiring this week after 40 years on the job (alongside Andrew Wan).
By the time positions are filled, Rafael Payare will have replaced a quarter of the orchestra in his first year as full MD.
I did not know librarians are musicians. Are any of these folks musicians of color, or were they actually hired because of their talent?
Librarians are as much musicians as conductors are — intimate knowledge of the score to every piece in an orchestra’s season, plus all the responsibility if something goes wrong.
TSO’s auditions are fully screened.
The female string players are beautiful (no surprise). Best wishes
TSO’s auditions are fully screened. And are you saying that the men are not beautiful?!?!
It is good musicians have employment.
Thank you for including the librarian this time!