Nathaniel Yaffe

Nathaniel Yaffe joined the North Carolina Symphony cello section in 2013, and has served as its archival recording engineer since 2016. When the North Carolina Symphony stopped performing live during the pandemic, Nathaniel produced, recorded, and edited over 25 concerts for broadcast during the 2020-2021 virtual season. As audiences return to the concert hall, these […]

Samuel Sykes

Samuel Sykes began studying the cello at age three at the Northeast Iowa School of Music and made his concerto debut with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra at age twelve. He was named a National YoungArts Winner and has also won first prize in several competitions across the country. He was recently a prize winner in […]

Lisa Howard Shaughnessy

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Marc Moskovitz

The son of a professional violinist, cellist Marc Moskovitz has taken a musical path from North Carolina to Indiana, Berlin, Ohio, Boston, and finally back to North Carolina. Principal cellist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Ohio, he has also performed and toured with The Boston Pops and The Handel and Haydn Society. His recordings […]

David Meyer

Cellist David Meyer joined the North Carolina Symphony in 2013. After childhood musical training in Southern California with Rick Mooney,  Eleonore Schoenfeld, Victor Sazer, and Nathaniel Rosen, he continued his cello studies with Lawrence Lesser in Boston. He holds degrees from University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and the New England Conservatory of […]

Yewon Ahn

Yewon Ahn joined the North Carolina Symphony cello section in 2018, after two seasons and an eight-concert European tour with the Houston Symphony. She earned an artist diploma and professional studies certificate from the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where she also performed in the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices founded by James […]

Peng Li

Peng Li joined the North Carolina Symphony as Assistant Principal Cello in the fall of 2008. He was a member of the San Antonio Symphony, as well as a substitute musician for the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, and Houston Ballet. Li attended the Tanglewood Music Center in the summers of 2005 and 2006 and […]

Elizabeth Beilman

Elizabeth Beilman, a native of Wichita, Kansas, joined the North Carolina Symphony in 1988 and serves as the orchestra’s Associate Principal Cello. Since coming to Raleigh, she has performed in numerous recitals and ensembles in North Carolina and has appeared as soloist with the North Carolina Symphony. As a founding member of the chamber music ensemble […]

Bonnie Thron

Bonnie Thron joined the North Carolina Symphony as principal cellist in 2000. She is an active chamber musician and recitalist and locally has been a guest artist with the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the Ciompi Quartet, as well as occasionally joining the Jacobowitz-Larkin Duo to form a clarinet trio called Three For All. In the […]