Canadian flutist Jeffrey Khaner joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as Principal Flute at the beginning of the 1990/1991 season following his Principal position with the Cleveland Orchestra from 1982 through 1990. Prior to his appointment in Cleveland, Mr. Khaner served as Co-Principal Flute of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Principal Flute of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the Atlantic Symphony in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Todd Palmer's virtuosity and ebullient stage presence have brought him a stellar reputation as a solo clarinetist that is attained by few artists on his instrument. He made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall as a winner of the 1987 Artists International Competition, and in 1988, he won the Grand Prize in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition in Houston (the first wind player to win this prestigious competition!).

Robert Rinehart joined the New York Philharmonic's viola section in September 1992. Mr. Rinehart has an extensive background in chamber music; as a founding member of the Ridge String quartet, be toured extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America beginning in 1979. The quarter was featured on all of New York's major chamber music series as well as the Spoleto, Schleswig-Holstein and Helsinki festivals.

Firmly established in her native Israel as an important young musician, violinist Carmit Zori was chosen at age 13 by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to perform on the international television special "Music from Jerusalem". Two years Inter, at the recommendation of Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern, she came to the United States to study at the Curtis institute of Music, where her teachers included Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo, and Arnold Steinhardt.