Marcia McHugh Kämper is one of the new members to join the Baltimore Symphony for the landmark 2006-07 season under music director Marin Alsop.  Mrs. Kämper was invited to become a permanent member of the Baltimore Symphony after performing on the entire 2005-06 season which included the October European tour under music director Yuri Temirkanov. 

Marcia Kämper is co-director of ANALOG, a non-profit collective of artists and musicians from around the world.  Founded by her husband Dolf Kämper, ANALOG arts ensemble makes up a core of avant-garde conceptual artists and musicians that reach out to new audiences and new horizons.  Currently, the largest ANALOG project is ARTSaha!, Omaha’s only new-music festival.

STACIE HANELINE holds degrees in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and Converse College. While in New York, she served as studio accompanist for numerous vocal pedagogues, including Mignon Dunn, Marlena Malas, Cynthia Hoffman, Ellen Faull, Robert White, and Theodore Uppman, as well as playing master classes for Nico Castel. She was also an accompanist for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Columbia and Barnard Universities, Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music. Stacie has been an accompanist for the Hawaii Opera, Hawaii Vocal Arts, Symphony Chorus and University. While living in Australia, Stacie worked under the Director of the Sydney Opera House as a repetiteur. She was awarded the Yamaha Young Artist Award.

PATRICIA RITCHIE has taught orchestra in Omaha and Millard schools, and performed professionally as a cellist for the past 20 years. She received her Bachelor's degree in Music Education from Ball State University in Muncie. Indiana, and her Masters degree in cello performance from Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.  Whether coaching, adjudicating, conducting, or performing, Patricia is weaving a strong musical tapestry in the Omaha community.  Ms. Ritchie is currently teaching at Millard West, Russell Middle Schools, and was voted 1994 Nebraska Orchestra Teacher of the Year. She currently serves as Vice President of NeASTA (American String Teachers Association).

Associate Concertmaster ANN BEEBE has been with the Omaha Symphony since 1987.  Previously she played in the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, and served as Concertmaster for Chamber Orchestra Oklahoma City.  In  Omaha, Ann teaches privately, and also enjoys coaching sectionals for the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras.  A native Midwesterner, she grew up in Winnetka, Illinois.  She studied with James Buswell at the Indiana  University School of Music, where she earned Bachelor's and Master's  degrees in violin performance.  A veteran of many summer music festivals, Ann now spends summers in  Wyoming, performing in the Grand Teton Music Festival.  In addition to  playing symphony and chamber music with colleagues from orchestras all  over the country, the lure of hiking in the mountains continues to  draw her back to Jackson Hole.

WILLIAM RITCHIE, Assistant Principal Bass of the Omaha Symphony since 1983, began his professional career as the orchestra director for the St. Joseph Public Schools in his hometown of St. Joseph, Michigan, where he was also the first conductor of the Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra. He has been a member of the Florida Orchestra (Tampa Bay), Grand Rapids Symphony, and has performed with the Kansas City Symphony. Bill regularly performs with the Detroit Symphony at Orchestra Hall in Detroit and on  tour: two to Europe in 1998 and 2001, and one of Michigan in 2003.