Violist Rebecca Young joined the Philharmonic in 1986 as its youngest member and in 1991 was named the Orchestra’s Associate Principal Viola. After serving as principal of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1992–93, she resumed her Philharmonic Associate Principal position in 1994. She has performed chamber music with groups such as the Boston Chamber Music Society, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has recorded Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Pamela Frank, and Edgar Meyer (on Sony Classical). In 1999 Ms. Young performed the world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Two Paths, a work commissioned by the Philharmonic and underwritten by then-Music Director Kurt Masur’s wife, Tomoko, for Ms. Young and Philharmonic Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps. The two reprised the work with the Philharmonic on several of the Orchestra’s tours. She made her most recent Philharmonic solo appearances in December 2008. Ms. Young is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

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Violist Dorian Rence is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Max Aronoff and Joseph De Pasquale. At the completion of her studies, in 1976, she joined the New York Philharmonic. She has been a participant at the Marlboro, Arcady, and Marland music festivals. Ms. Rence has performed extensively as a chamber musician, playing regularly with the Philharmonic Ensembles and the Hofstra Quartet. She has appeared as soloist with the Oklahoma City Symphony, The Curtis Institute of Music Orchestra, the Ridgefield Symphony, the Endymion Ensemble, and the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.

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