Several additions to the musician roster for 2011-12 have been announced by the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Symphony Orchestra. GEORGIY BORISOV, a native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan with degrees from Interlochen Arts Academy and Manhattan School of Music, has been named principal clarinet and artist-in-residence. In the latter post, one of nine full-time KSO positions created in 2000 through an endowment gift from the Ford Foundation, Borisov will coach students in the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony, and will teach in the KSO’s Partner School program and at Crescendo Academy of Music, a community music school in downtown Kalamazoo. Tokyo native YUKIE OTA has been appointed principal flute. She has performed with the Osaka Philharmonic and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and is currently pursuing a graduate degree at DePaul University as a student of Mathieu Detour, principal flute in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. LINDSAY LEACH, named to the third flute/piccolo position, holds degrees from London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where she was the first graduate of Peabody’s Piccolo Performance Program in 2004. SUNSHINE SIMMONS joins the KSO as third clarinet/E-flat clarinet. A clarinet instructor at Chicago’s Loyola University, she holds a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University. MICHAEL BROZICK, appointed to the second trumpet post, has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Grant Park Festival Orchestra. He holds degrees from Duquesne University and Rice University and studied in Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship.
Georgiy Borisov photo courtesy Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Posted October 7, 2011
