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Natalie Gaynor
Natalie’s professional orchestral career began in March 2017 by leading the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra’s second violin section in Götterdämmerung , the last of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and almost six hours in length. She later served as Concertmaster for Houston Grand Opera’s production of “My Favorite Things,” a program of selections from The Sound of Music in May 2021. Natalie performs frequently with the Houston Symphony and is a first violinist at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, collaborating
During her master’s degree at Rice University, Natalie served as concertmaster for the Shepherd School Opera and Chamber Orchestras. In this role with the Shepherd Opera Orchestra, she performed the violin solos in Handel’s Giulio Cesare , collaborating directly with onstage Cesare in “Se in fiorito ameno prato.” She has performed in Carnegie Hall with both the New York String Orchestra Seminar and the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, and toured Japan with the Pacific Music Festival. In July 2021, she wa
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