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Conductors and musicians

Our conductors

Chief conductor designate

Marc Albrecht

Honorary conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

Conductor emeritus

Jaap van Zweden

Our musicians

Concertmaster

Meruert Karmenova

 

Strings

First violin

Maria Kouznetsova°
Christophe Mourguiart°
Giannis Antonopoulos
Hui Cao
Filipe Costa Raposo
Nana Hiraide
Claire Lechien
Laie Lee
Sihong Liang
Roberto Quartararo
Māra Miķelsone
Natalia Tessak
Minori Yamato

Second violin

Orsolya Horváth*
Miki Tsunoda*
Linde Verjans**
Liesbeth Kindt
Ilse Pasmans
Marjolein Van Der Jeught
Maartje Van Eggelen
Frederic Van Hille
Ciska Vandelanotte
Hanneke Verbueken
Pierre Vopat

Viola

Sander Geerts*
Ayako Ochi*
Rajmund Główczynski**
Elaine Ng**
Wu Di
Dino Dragović
Marija Krumes
Lisbeth Lannie

Cello

Raphael Bell*
Marc Vossen*
Olivier Robe**
Dieter Schützhoff**
Mar Bonet Silvestre
Volodymyr Fedorov
Diego Liberati
Maria Mudrova

Double bass

Ioan Baranga*
Vlad Rațiu*
Jarosław Mróz**
Carlos Navarro Herrero**
Julita Fasseva
Jeremiusz Trzaska

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Woodwinds

Flute

Aldo Baerten*
Edith Van Dyck*
Charlène Deschamps
Peter Verhoyen (piccolo)

Oboe

Louis Baumann*
Eric Speller*
Sébastien Vanlerberghe
Dimitri Mestdag (English horn)

Clarinet

Luz Sedeño*
Benjamin Dieltjens*
Raül Verdú Sellés
Benoît Viratelle (bass clarinet)

Bassoon

Oliver Engels*
Graziano Moretto*
Juan Ruiz Bandoux
Tobias Knobloch (contrabassoon)

Brass

Horn

Michaela Bůžková*
Eliz Erkalp*
Jean-Baptiste Humbert
Koen Cools
Ana Maria Muñoz Koniarska
Koen Thijs

Trumpet

Alain De Rudder*
Luc Van Gorp
Steven Verhaert

Trombone

Lucas Tiefenthaler*
Adrián Castro Capuz
Roel Avonds (bass trombone)

Tuba

Bernd Van Echelpoel

Percussion

Timpani

Pieterjan Vranckx*

Percussion

Cristiano Menegazzo
Elías Blanco Del Prado
Dámaso Escauriaza

 

° deputy concertmaster
* leader
** deputy leader

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The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra is the symphony orchestra of Flanders and Belgium, having the world-renowned Queen Elisabeth Hall as its home base.

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