Sylvia Alimena, recently voted by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the members of their Music Hall of Fame, has an active conducting schedule throughout the Washington, DC area as music director and conductor of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Brass of Peace, the venerated Friday Morning Music Club Orchestra and now The McLean Orchestra. She is currently also a hornist with the National Symphony Orchestra.
A native of Long Island, New York, she began playing the French horn in the Hicksville Public Schools at age nine. Her first private lessons were at age fifteen when she was awarded a full scholarship to study privately with Arthur E. Goldstein, formerly of the Chicago Symphony. Miss Alimena continued her musical studies at Boston University and was a pupil of Harry Shapiro of the Boston Symphony. In 1981 she was a first place winner of the Boston University Concerto Aria Competition and in the summer of that year was awarded a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center.
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Paula Sisson Akbar, violin
Carole Bean, flute
Natasha Bogachek, violin
Paul Cigan, clarinet
Mahoko Eguchi, viola
Carole Tafoya Evans, violin
Mark Evans, cello
Scott Fearing, horn
Cynthia Finks, violin
Ira Gold, bass
Holly Hamilton, violin
Truman Harris, bassoon
The Rose and Leo Kogan Memorial Chair, endowed by Alice Kogan Weinreb
David Howard
The Friedel and Fritz Linn Memorial Chair, endowed by Priscilla and Johannes Linn
Laurel Ohlson, horn
The Bartolo N. and Sylvia M. Alimena Chair, endowed by Sylvia G. Alimena
Tsuna Sakamoto, viola
Linda Schroeder, violin
Jane Bowyer Stewart, violin
David Teie, cello
Alice Kogan Weinreb, flute
The James Pappoutsakis Memorial Chair, endowed by Laurel B. Ohlson and Truman Harris
Jeffrey Weisner, bass
William Wielgus, oboe and English horn
