WHO WE ARE
Scott A. Dessens, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
John Baril, Music Director
John Moriarty, Artistic Director Emeritus
Michael Baitzer, Administrator, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program and Principal Coach/Diction Coach
ADMINISTRATIVE
Sara Blackwelder, Controller
Ana Carrera, Accounting Clerk
Wanda M. Larson, Office Administrator and Gift Shop Administrator/Buyer
BOX OFFICE
Contact: boxoffice@centralcityopera.org or 303-292-6700.
Deb Mountain, Sales Operations Manager
Lilien Lemieux, Patron Services Associate
DEVELOPMENT
Katherine Nicholson, Director of Development
Jeremy Schwartz, Development Operations and Events Manager
Michael Walker, Annual Giving Manager
Elisabeth Boyce, Development Administrative Coordinator
Shira Zimmerman, Grants Officer
Sam Moody, Grants Coordinator
MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Gail Bransteitter, Director of Marketing and Communications
Erin Osovets, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications
Margaret Siegrist, Marketing Content Manager
Teila Theisen, Audience Development Manager
Melissa Rick, Art Direction and Graphic Design
HISTORIC PROPERTIES
Eric Chinn, Director of Historic Properties
Sam Carrington, Historic Property Maintenance
EDUCATION
Contact: education@centralcityopera.org
Emily Murdock, Director of Education, Podcast Host and Producer
Margaret Ozaki Graves, Education Coordinator
PRODUCTION STAFF
Karen T. Federing, Director of Production
MUSIC AND COACHING STAFF
John Baril, Music Director and Conductor
Brian Cook, Orchestra Personnel Manager
Angela Dombrowski, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager
Kirby Brayman, Assistant to the Music Director
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
John Baril, Music Director
Brian Cook, Orchestra Personnel Manager
Angela Dombrowski, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager and Music Librarian
VIOLIN
Byron A. Hitchcock, concertmaster
Takanori Sugishita, assistant concertmaster
Sharon Park, principal second
Chris Jusell, assistant principal second
Natasha Colkett
Angela Dombrowski
Emily Glover
James Wyn Hart
Filip Lazovski
Susie Peek
Ingrid Peoria
VIOLA
Kostadin Dyulgerski, principal
Leah Kovach, assistant principal
N. Samantha Headlee
Lora Stevens
CELLO
Jonathan Lewis, principal
Kimberly Patterson, assistant principal
VACANT
BASS
John Arnesen, principal
Andy Holmes
FLUTE
Masha Popova, principal
Ebonee Thomas
OBOE
Jeffrey Stephenson, principal
Sarah Bierhaus
CLARINET
Anna Brumbaugh, principal
Michelle Orman
BASSOON
Jill Dispenza, principal
Francisco Delgado
HORN
Carolyn Kunicki, principal
Josh East
Devon Park
Chandler Spoon
TRUMPET
Leslie Scarpino, principal
Jonathan Kaplan
TROMBONE
Bron Wright, principal
Andrew Wolfe
Jeffrey J. Craig
TUBA
Adam Snider, principal
HARP
Janet Harriman, principal
TIMPANI
Mike P. Tetreault, principal
PERCUSSION
Carl Dixon, principal
Peter Cooper
Nena Lorenz Wright