FLUTE/PICCOLO

Ellen Fisher-Deerberg, Principal
Kevin Willois

OBOE

Melissa Bohl, Principal
Anne McGabe

 

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CLARINET/BASS CLARINET

Deborah Gers, Principal
George Hicks
Christopher Nichols,  Principal (Substitute)

BASSOON

Elizabeth Randolph, Principal
Brent Sandene


FLUTE/PICCOLO

Ellen Fisher Deerburg

Ellen Fisher-Deerberg is the principal flutist of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, and director of its Young Artists Concerto Competition. She graduated from Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music where she majored in music performance and studied with Murray Panitz, former principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ellen is a well-respected freelance artist in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and has performed in a wide variety of instrumental ensembles in both the USA and Germany. She has been teaching flute for over 30 years, formerly at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music and the Music School of Delaware, and has been on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey, since 2005. As a founding member of the flute quartet, The Lyra Ensemble, Ellen has been invited to perform and present seminars and master classes at numerous colleges in the Mid-Atlantic states, and has been selected to perform for the National Flute Association’s annual convention as well as for the Mid-Atlantic, Philadelphia, and New York Flute Fairs. Ellen also performs frequently with the Bay Atlantic Symphony.

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Melissa Bohl is the principal oboist of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also served as the principal oboist for the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, and the American Repertory Ballet Orchestra, and was a member of the Louisville Orchestra.   Ms. Bohl received her degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Notre Dame, and Princeton University.  She has studied oboe with Ray Still, Robert Sprenkle, and Jerry Sirucek, and has performed in master classes for Richard Woodhams, James Caldwell, and Marcel Moyse.  Ms. Bohl is the head of the wind department at the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, NJ.  She has taught oboe, music history, and music theory at Rider University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Notre Dame.  As a former member of the New Arts Ensemble and the Fiati Chamber Players, she has performed in Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C.