2026 Valade Concertmasters and Valade Fellows
High School Orchestra and Wind Symphony students at Interlochen Arts Camp will have the opportunity to learn from Valade Concertmasters and Valade Fellows—a distinguished cohort of professional string, woodwind, and brass musicians.
Valade faculty for summer 2026
- Sharon Sparrow | Assistant Principal Flute, Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Matt Roitstein | Principal Flute, St. Louis Symphony
- Linda Strommen | Professor of Oboe, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
- Dwight Parry | Principal Oboe, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
- Gabriel Campos Zamora | Principal Clarinet, I.A. O'Shaughnessy Chair, Minnesota Orchestra
- Alexander Fiterstein | Professor of Clarinet and Chair of Winds, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
- Carin Miller | Scott Showalter Principal Bassoon Chair, Oregon Symphony
- Nicki Roman | Associate Professor of Saxophone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Timothy McAllister | Associate Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance; Soprano Saxophone, PRISM Quartet
- Bruce Henniss | Associate Professor of Horn and Area Coordinator of Brass, Ohio State University
- Brad Gemeinhardt | Principal Horn, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- John Aley | Principal Trumpet, Marilynn G. Thompson Chair, Madison Symphony Orchestra
- Marco Gómez | Tenor and Bass Trombone, Royal Danish Orchestra
- Ben Green | Trombone, Bern Symphony Orchestra
- Philip Sinder | Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, Michigan State University
- Martin Chalifour | Principal Concertmaster, Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair, Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Kimberly Kennedy | Associate Concertmaster, Schwartz and Shapero Family Chair, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Eric Gratz | Director of the American Chamber Music Society in Chicago
- Dennis Kim | Concertmaster, Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair, Pacific Symphony
- Jeff Thayer | Deborah Pate and John Forrest Concertmaster Chair, San Diego Symphony
- Jun Iwasaki | Concertmaster, Miller Nichols Chair, Kansas City Symphony
- Eric Nowlin | Principal Viola, Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Natalie Helm | Principal Cello, Allan Friedman Chair, Sarasota Orchestra
- Kurt Muroki | Professor of Double Bass, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
- Lawrence Hurst | Professor Emeritus of Strings, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
