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St. Louis Symphony ANNOUNCES NEW MUSICIANS

(ST.LOUIS)  – Music Director David Robertson and The St. Louis Symphony (SLSO) announced the appointment of three new full-time musicians: Erin Schreiber, Assistant Concertmaster; William James, Principal Percussion, and Sébastien Gingras, Section Cello.

 

Erin Schreiber, 21, is a native of Elsah, Illinois and a former member of the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. She already has an extensive recital career and has received numerous awards including the prestigious Buder Foundation Music Grant. She is also a three-time recipient of the Anita Crane Music Scholarship. Her past teachers have included Roland and Almita Vamos, Elisa Barston (former SLSO Associate Concermaster), and Robert Lipsett. Schreiber continues to pursue her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music as she takes on her responsibilities as Assistant Concertmaster. At Curtis her teachers include Joseph Silverstein and Pamela Frank.

 

William James, 26, also joins the SLSO via the New World Symphony. The new Principal Percussion received his Masters of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Will Hudgins of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. James received his Bachelors of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied with Michael Burritt, and active clinician and soloist, and James Ross of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

  

Sébastien Gingras, 24, joins the cello section of the SLSO after, most recently, performing as a Fellow with the New World Symphony in Miami. Gingras is a native of Quebec, Canada, and received a Bachelor of Music degree from Conservatoire de Musique de Chicoutimi, and a Masters of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Laurence Lesser and David Ellis.

 

All three of the new Orchestra musicians will be on the Powell Hall stage this week as the SLSO officially begins its 129th season.