Orchestra Member Bios
Lauren Cadiz has a BA in Music Performance from Southern Oregon State University and a BA in Music Education from University of Oregon. She completed formal Suzuki Teacher training from John Kendall at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and currently teaches full time at Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle. Lauren moved from Portland, OR to Seattle four years ago. She taught music lessons and performed with several orchestras in the Portland area. Besides music, she enjoys cooking and hiking.
Bradley Clem began playing the double bass in the fifth grade. He studied with James Harnett at the University of Washington and has played with the Mid-Columbia Symphony, Cascade Symphony and, since 1994, with Philharmonia Northwest. Bradley earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington and a Master of Science from MIT. After many years as an engineer at Boeing, he has spent the last decade as a software engineer and currently works for Boston Scientific developing software for implanted cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators. He lives in Kirkland with his wife, Claudia Jensen, who is a music historian and author. Their two daughters are in college at Boston University and MIT. Other than bass playing, Bradley enjoys hiking in the Cascades, good books, and cheap wine.
Matt Drumm began playing drums and percussion at age nine. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2000 with a degree in percussion performance, studying primarily with Michael Crusoe of the Seattle Symphony. Matt began playing with Philharmonia Northwest as a substitute timpanist and percussionist in 1994 and has been Principal Timpanist/Percussionist since 1998. Matt serves as principal timpanist for Tacoma Symphony (1999-present), Bellevue Philharmonic (2001-present) and Cascade Festival of Music (2006-07). Matt is in demand as a freelance timpanist and percussionist, frequently performing with Seattle Symphony (including recordings and performances of music from Lord of the Rings movies), Seattle Opera (including an onstage appearance in Billy Budd), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Northwest Sinfonietta and more. He also plays with the Route 66 big band, chamber ensembles, musical theater and movie and video game soundtracks, including "Akeelah and the Bee" and "Valkyrie". He has taught percussion lessons for 20 years and coaches percussion for schools, youth symphonies and summer festivals. In 2004, Matt performed the Thärichen Timpani Concerto with Philharmonia Northwest. Outside of music, Matt enjoys reading, backpacking and Mariners baseball. He lives in Lynnwood with his wife, Molly. Thanks to the Lord for the musical gift He has given.
 Amy Duerr Day began playing the oboe, self-taught, in high school. She next attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and received a Bachelor of Music Performance. Continuing study has been with principal teachers William Banovetz/San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Barbara Herr/St. Louis Symphony, and Dan Williams/Seattle professional. In three final world premiers of composer Allen Strange, she performed, was a featured soloist, and also doubled on claves and temple bells (for the first time.) She has recorded for Hat Factory Film Studio and has also performed with various ensembles including Orchestra Seattle, Island Soundscape Players, Bremerton Symphony, Ovation Theater, Declassified Chamber Series, Opera San Jose, Monterey Symphony, St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony, and Nebraska Chamber Orchestra. Amy also holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from San Jose State University and is an interior and building designer with award winning and nationally published projects.
 Kellyn Haley received her Master of Music in trombone performance from Yale School of Music in 2002 and has been an active freelance musician in the Greater Puget Sound area ever since. Kellyn has performed with orchestras and music groups around the globe in a vast array of styles making appearances with groups including: Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, The Red Note, Rome Festival Orchestra, Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, Superfly Tribute, and the Soul Pistols. A passionate chamber musician and solo artist Kellyn performs regularly with the Evergreen Brass Quintet and with critically acclaimed soprano, Laurie Rubin. Kellyn's teachers include: Scott Hartman, John Swallow, Alain Trudel, and Michael Bequet.
 Michel Jolivet has been an active bassoonist and contrabassoonist in the Puget Sound area for 30 years and has played with most of the region's musical organizations, ranging from the Hot Air Bassoons and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra to the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Opera. He has performed frequently as a soloist on both instruments with groups in Seattle, Olympia, and Wenatchee. In 2001 he participated in performances of the Schubert Octet and Beethoven Septet with renowned violinist Joseph Silverstein. He has also played for a variety of movie soundtracks and can be heard on recordings with the Rainier Chamber Winds and with Arthur Grossman.
Dr. Jolivet has published articles on the contrabassoon and on the sarrusophone, an unusual double reed instrument. In 2002 he gave very likely the world's first solo recital on bass sarrusophone at the International Double Reed Society convention held in Banff, Alberta. His primary mentors have been Morgan Griffin, Arthur Grossman, Sydney Rosenberg, and Paul Rafanelli.
Sara Jolivet A long time admirer of Dennis Brain and his beautiful french horn, Sara picked the flute at the age of eleven simply because the case was too big! From then on, she never looked back. A native Olympian, she studied through middle school and high school with fellow Olympian Richard Lince and Zart Dombourian-Eby, piccoloist with the Seattle Symphony. During those early years, she participated and won awards in local and state competitions. Sara continued her further studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York with Bonita Boyd. While a flute performance major there, she performed with such legendary groups as the prestigious Eastman Wind Ensemble. Among her solo appearances, Sara was invited to play The Star Spangled Banner for the Seattle Thunderbirds Hockey Team and performed in the Governor’s Mansion Concert Series on two different occasions. She has performed as soloist with many local groups including the Olympia Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest. When not playing the flute or piccolo, she can sometimes be found struggling mightily on the bassoon. Her article "My Secret Life - Confessions of a Flutist" was internationally published in the International Double Reed Journal in 2008. She shares her home with a brilliant bassoonist, four dogs, three cats, and a kiddy wading pond full of water turtles. Her non-musical interests include Boston Terrier Rescue, special needs animal care, native plant gardening, and the outdoors.
Doug Longman has been playing in the orchestra for 30 years, with just a couple of short seasons off when his children were born. He is a transplanted Californian who went to Cleveland for his violin training, and then to USC to get his teaching credential. When California passed Prop. 13 and laid off all of its new teaching corps, he came north to make his home, and has been teaching in the Issaquah School District ever since. It was there that he founded the district's orchestra program that has become one of the leading programs in Washington and which has kept him very busy ever since. Doug feels that it is important for music teachers to keep playing in ensembles themselves and to keep making music from both sides of the podium. Philharmonia Northwest has been a part of his life for a long time.
 Ian Newhall received his Bachelor of Arts from Western Washington University. While at Western, Ian played under the direction of Alfred Reed, Robert Reynolds, Frank Battisti and Dr. Frederick Fennell.
An active musician in the Seattle area since 1998, Ian currently holds the principal trumpet position with Philharmonia Northwest, under the direction of Roupen Shakarian. He has played with many large ensembles including Tacoma Opera, Bellevue Philharmonic, Philharmonia Northwest, Lake Union Civic Orchestra, and Northwest Symphony. He has also performed in smaller chamber settings with the St. James Cathedral Brass, St. Therese Trumpets, St. Thomas Brass Quintet and many more.
Ian currently works at the St. James Cathedral music office as the Special Projects Coordinator. He lives in North Seattle with his wife Ailisa, who is a Cantor at St. James and is the choir director at Canyon Park Junior High.
 Victoria Parker began studying the violin at age two-and-a-half with her mother, Sharyn Peterson. Born into a musical family, she grew up performing and touring with her family quintet. Victoria holds a B.M. from Western Michigan University and a M.M. from Manhattan School of Music, where she worked closely with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, and Charles Dutoit. She has been a featured soloist with One World Symphony, Las Vegas Music Festival Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Starry Night Chamber Orchestra, Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra, and Philharmonia Northwest, with whom she recently premiered a violin concerto composed by Roupen Shakarian. Victoria and her husband Robert collaborate as the Parker Duo and are co-founders of multi-media project Helix Series in New York City. They perform regularly with the band Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and can be heard on their debut album. Currently a resident of Seattle, Victoria maintains a private teaching studio and substitutes regularly with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera. She frequently records for The House of Breaking Glass studios, and can be heard on many motion picture soundtracks. Victoria is the creator and artistic director of Invisible Thread, a new Seattle-based concert series.
 A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Richard V. West studied French Horn at UCLA, the Music Academy of the West, and the Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kuenste, Vienna. His teachers included Arthur Frantz, Sinclair Lott, Fred Fox, and Gottfried von Freiberg. After appointments to the U.S. Navy Band and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, West left professional music to undertake a career in art history, but continued to play with such organizations as the Oakland Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Currently director of the Frye Art Museum, West has been a member of the Philharmonia Northwest since 1997.
 Stephen Whyte has played horn with Philharmonia Northwest since 1994. He has enjoyed the horn since fifth grade band in Longview in 1968, under the steady direction of Doran Lindelien. Attending Pacific Lutheran University from 1975 through 1979, he studied horn under William Scharnberg, later with Kathleen Vaught Farner, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Economics. Among his favorite musical memories was attending the Young Musicians summer camps in Oregon during their earliest years in Corbett (Menucha) and Mount Angel, led by Sister Ann Miriam. Steve currently plays a Lawson horn with a Moosewood mouthpiece.
Steve’s non-musical life is occupied by family and business. His company, Pacific Housing Advisors, develops and owns multi-unit rental affordable housing throughout the U.S., using tax incentives and other government programs. In the field of affordable housing, Steve is actively involved at a national policy/advocacy level, and often speaks at conferences and other group gatherings.
Steve lives on Mercer Island with his wife Leslie and their son Matthew. He also enjoys hiking, travel, and a nice wine now and then.
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