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25/26 MUSICIANS Roster

Musical Director / Conductor / Cellist

Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin

Under the direction of conductor Mark Dupere, Philharmonie Austin explores a wide array of repertoire from early baroque to late romantic, often in collaboration with the Philharmonie Austin Chorus.

As a cellist, Dupere has performed throughout Europe as an orchestral and chamber musician. He has performed with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Haagsche Hofmuzieck, Anima Eterna and as an apprentice with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London. Dupere was an “Emerging Artist” at the Victoria Bach Festival, performed in the Leipzig Bach Competition, and was recently named a national finalist in the American Prize in Conducting.

Photo: Danny Damiani

Mark Dupere

Concert Master / Violinist

Australian violinist Emily Dupere has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout Europe, the USA, and Australia. She has performed with The English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Les Passions de l’âme, Haagsche Hofmuziek, Les Inventions, Bach Collegium Japan, Anima Eterna Brugge, Madison Bach Musicians, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and with the award-winning Sartory String Quartet.

Emily has been the concertmaster of Philharmonie Austin for the past ten years, performing a broad range of orchestral and chamber music on period instruments from Baroque to Late Romantic. She has worked with artists such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Maasaki Suzuki, Malcolm Bilson, Anton Nel, Petra Somlai, Shunske Sato, Steuart Pincombe, Mark Dupere and Jaap Ter Linden. Emily studied with Paul Wright, Kati Debretzeni, Walter Reiter and Ryo Terakado. She currently loves spending most of her time raising her three young children.

Photo: Danielle Stoffel

Emily Dupere

  • Emily Dupere, concertmaster
    Evan Few, principal second violin
    Joanna Becker
    Madlen Breckbill
    Ben Campbell
    Joan Carlson
    Bruce Colson
    Taylor DeCastro
    Aniela Eddy
    Chloe Fedor
    Paul Grobey
    Marika Holmqvist
    Fiona Hughes
    Eleanor LeGault
    Kiyoe Matsuura
    Stephanie Noori
    Reynaldo Patiño
    Gabe Roethle
    Maria Jose Romero
    Asako Takeuchi
    Joseph Tan

  • Nicole Divall, principal
    Ames Asbell
    Aniela Eddy
    Katherine Grobey
    Caitlin Hedge
    Mathew Michelic
    Kathryn Steely

  • Steuart Pincombe, principal
    Kivie Cahn-Lipman
    Eric Taeyang Mun
    Rene Schiffer
    Sydney ZumMalen

  • Jerry Fuller, principal
    David Dawson
    Mark Urness
    Sue Yelangian

  • Joseph Monticello, principal
    Kelsey Burnham
    Lars Johannesson
    Melanie Williams

  • Thomas Carroll, principal
    Elise Bonhivert

  • Andrew Blanke, principal
    Matthew Hudgens
    Billy Traylor

  • Marc Vallon, principal
    Allen Hamrick
    C. Keith Collins

  • Elisabeth Axtell, principal
    Katy Ambrose
    Sadie Glass
    Rachel Niernenberg

  • Brian Shaw, principal
    Chris Carrillo
    Aaron Romm

  • Bodie Pfost, principal
    Brian Taylor
    Simon Wood

  • Ben DePasquale

  • Michael Sponseller
    Guy Whatley

  • Jessica Beebe
    Katelyn Grace-Jackson
    Chelsea Helm
    Jenny Houghton
    Gitanjali Mathur
    Elizabeth McGee
    Juli Orlandini
    Kayla Suter
    Emily Yocum Black
    Erin Yousef

  • Ryland Angel
    Nicholas Garza
    Laura Mercado-Wright
    Clara Osowski
    Page Stephens
    Susan Thomas
    Nick Zammit

  • Cristian Cantu
    Donghyu Chung
    Stephen Dugdale
    Robbie LaBanca
    Fran David Laucerica
    Luke Lusted
    Steven Soph
    Eduardo Tercero

  • John Buffett
    Eric Johnson
    Morgan Kramer
    Cody Müller
    John Proft

Philharmonie Austin is the resident period instrument orchestra and chorus of Arts on Alexander (AoA), a nonprofit organization in the heart of East Austin.

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