Daniel Bruce - Music Director

Conductor Daniel Bruce is a professional pianist and conductor with experience in many diverse styles, from classical to jazz, from Broadway to rock and pop. In addition, he is Director of Music at Peoples Academy in Morrisville. He conducts annual performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Green Mountain Mahler Festival and Handel’s Messiah in Stowe. He has music directed over 100 school, amateur, and professional musical theater productions in Vermont, Illinois, and New York. When he is not selling real estate, in his free time he can be found running or cycling on the back roads of East Montpelier and beyond. 

Ensemble Members

Violin I

Cathy Metz, Concert Master

Ruth Einstein

Daryl Grout

Lotta Suter

Irene Nagle

Evonne Cho

Violin II

Jane Tulloh, Principal

Marta Cambra

Celia Reichel

Laura Weickert

Diana Valverde

Viola

Hannah Brown, Principal

Drusilla Macy

Ellen Drysdale

Kristen Morgan-Davie

Cello

Suzanne Smith, Principal

Kim Hardy

Andreas Lehner

Polly McMurtry

Michael Read

Bass

Eben Bodach-Turner

Andrew Albright

Dan Weiss

Flute

Laurel Maurer, Principal

Brooke Carleton

Ally Tarwater

Oboe

Arthur Max De Rienzo, Principal

Kristopher Hammer

Joni McGraw

Clarinet

Margaret Barsumian, Principal

Anthony Barrows

Marge Tassey

Bassoon

Jim Duncan

Leslie Welts

Horn

Cynthia Smith, Principal

Jan Little

Trumpet

Don Wheater, Co-principal

Daniel Marcy, Co-principal

Timpani

Peter Cressy