Conductor  Brad Hershey

First Violin
Stephen McDougall Graham, Concert Master
Leila Brickley
Sarah Butler
Marie Fogli
Lynne Heidel
Jorgen Lawrence
Heidi Schiers
Gracie Shriver

Second Violin
Andy Moffat, Principal
Karen Bliss
Anne Cunyas
Shelly Filgo
Lynn Flickinger
Sebastian Hernandez Tello
Erika Kuhlman
Theo Thomason
Cora Ward

Viola
Fisher Hattula, Principal
Gracie Peak
Deanna Steffler

Cello
Richard Inouye, Principal
Shanna Angel
Dede Morris
Janice Moulton

Flute
Mila Lyon, Principal
Robyn Enders
Traci Morales

Clarinet
Thelma Cameron. Principal
Terri Orr
Emily Stone
Leslie Vontver
Nancy Warren

Trumpet
Dean Comley, Principal
Becky DeShields
Gary Donofrio
Larry Schiers

Trombone
Andrew Schiers

Timpani
Bonnie Marsh

Percussion
Ted Dyer
Courtney Stredder
Amy Trujillo

STEPHEN MCDOUGALL GRAHAM (VIOLIN) Concertmaster

Stephen is an orchestral and chamber musician with a professional background in nonprofit administration and public service. In addition to numerous performances with ensembles in New York City and Atlanta, he contributed to the album The Great Northwest, featuring members of the indie band Lucius, and the Amazon Original series Mozart in the Jungle. He performs regularly with The Chelsea Symphony, also serving as President and Executive Director. In May 2018 Stephen completed a MS in classical violin performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music. His principal teachers included Stephanie Chase, Juilliard professor Lara Lev, and Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet. In 2021, Stephen began serving as the elected Blaine County Clerk. During warmer months, Stephen performs at local weddings as a member of Valley Ensembles.

JANICE MOULTON (VIOLIN)

It was my great-grandfather’s violin that provided my first opportunity of playing music within a group. I was in the fourth grade, and I have been making music with groups ever since. Through high school and college my appreciation and wonder with the collective result of skilled musicians and their varied instruments grew. It served as a sustaining focus of my schooling and provided opportunities that I would not have experienced otherwise. I found no orchestras as a young mother and wife in remote Stanley, Idaho, so I picked up my fiddle, and blue grass became my gig — playing for fun, weddings, tourists and school programs.  When the Wood River Community Orchestra was formed in the fall of 2007, I enthusiastically joined. Being a member of an orchestra still provides me with great satisfaction and my talented fellow musicians have become my friends. I am amazed at the beautiful music friends can make together.

LYNN FLICKINGER (VIOLIN)

I started playing the violin when I was 55. It was quite a challenge but I have loved every minute of it. I took piano lessons as a child and guitar as a young adult but had never played in an orchestra. Sue Mendelsohn recruited me for the orchestra as I was relaxing on a beach in Hawaii in the spring of 2008. Music has always been an important part of my life. Practicing is like meditating. Playing in an orchestra is an amazing experience. We are able to learn so much from one another and produce something that is beautiful to share with each other and our audiences.

LYNNE HEIDEL (VIOLIN)

I started playing the violin in grade school and continued to play through high school and college. When I was a high school teacher, I continued to play in a community orchestra and with friends. But I put my violin under the bed during law school. Then came children and a busy law practice. When I retired and moved to Sun Valley, one goal was to start playing violin again. After 35 years, I trimmed my fingernails, had my violin spiffed up, and bought a new bow. I blew the dust off my violin exercise books and began to play again. Next, I attended a WRO concert to see if they were either too good for me to join or too bad for me to want to join. I am delighted to say, WRO is just right. The joy of playing in an orchestra is one of the greatest pleasures in my life.

ANDREW SCHIERS (TROMBONE)

Andrew has played the trombone since grade school in various concert, marching and jazz bands. He grew up and got his musical start in the Wood River Valley before playing at Idaho State University. He had a break after college but is happy to be back in the valley and for the opportunity to play in an ensemble again.

MARIE FOGLI (VIOLIN)  

Marie’s musical education began at McKinley Grammar School in Burlingame, California where lessons and instruments were provide as part of the standard curriculum. She began private lessons at the age of 10 under the able tutelage of Miss Marjorie McFarland. Marie is, however, indebted to Kate Stenberg, her best childhood friend and founding member of the Del Sol Quartet, and Don and Joanne Stenberg for immersing her in, and supporting Marie’s love of classical music.

BONNIE MARSH (PERCUSSION)

Music has always been a part of my life starting with piano, then flute and choir, then a short stint with the mandolin. As a parent with a son that played several instruments I stayed involved with music but on a different level. Though I sat down at the piano now and then, I hadn’t had a chance to play music with a group since early college years. Several years after putting down my flute, I picked it up again in 2007 when Andy Lewis and Sue Mendelsohn got the WRO going. I switched to percussion after a few years and when the opportunity to play tympani came along I joyously jumped at it.

ANDREW MOFFAT (PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN)

Andrew earned a BMus in violin performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, in 2004. A lateral career move led him to language teaching and academia. Now working (very) remotely as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, Andrew lives in Hailey with his twin nine-year-old daughters and patiently waits out the winters for summer peak-bagging in the Pioneers. He is delighted to have found people to make music with.

RICHARD INOUYE (PRINCIPAL)

Richard grew up near Philadelphia PA and studied with Francis DePasquale. While in high school, Richard played with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Philadelphia Doctors Orchestra, and spent a summer at the Interlochen Music Camp. After having completed degrees in Biology (BA, Reed College) and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (PhD, Univ Arizona), he has played with the Whitewater Opera, the Idaho State Civic Symphony, and the Symphony of the Potomac, and in 2023 joined the Wood River Orchestra. Now retired from a career spent mostly in academia, he looks for opportunities to play music, take river trips, and help his children and grandchildren. Watching beavers shape the landscape, fencing out cows, and work on an off-grid house north of Fairfield ID keep him occupied at other times.