Assassins
DANIELLE DUQUETTE (Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone)
JENNIFER FROHLICH (Piccolo, Flute) has been playing flute for 11 years, and is currently principal flute for the Cornell Wind Ensemble. She has played in the orchestra for The Nutcracker with the San Diego Ballet. She is a Biology Major in the school of Arts and Sciences, and would like to thank her parents and twin sister for their continuous support in all her musical endeavors.
JAQUI WERTHEIM (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxaphone) is a freshman at Cornell University majoring in physics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her hometown is Beachwood, Ohio. She plays clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, and tenor saxophone for the show but has also been playing piano for 12 years. She also plays in the Cornell Big Red Marching Band. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, shopping, and spending time with her friends and family. She hopes to go to medical school and become a radiologist. This is her first orchestra experience, and she has greatly enjoyed it. She would like to congratulate the cast, crew, directors, and orchestra for doing a wonderful job and thank her friends and family for their love and support.
JORDAN EPSTEIN (Trumpet) is currently a freshman Applied Economics and Management major at Cornell from Long Island. He has been playing the trumpet since the fourth grade and has performed in the All-County Symphonic Band four times, and in the Valley Stream District Music Festival for the past four years as well. He was a member of his high school’s marching band, wind ensemble, and orchestra, playing for shows such as Anything Goes, Fiddler on the Roof, and Hello, Dolly!. Currently, he is a proud member of the almighty Big Red Trumpet section in the Big Red Marching Band. In addition to his musical interests, Jordan was a six-time Varsity, three-time All-Conference high school tennis player and he is an avid skier. Jordan is thrilled to be working with such a great orchestra and cast and wishes everyone involved good luck.
LAURA SUTTLE (Trumpet, Flugelhorn)
JIN HAO (Guitar) is a ghetto-Asian guitar virtuoso/fledgling chemistry pre-med at Cornell University. He was born in The People’s Republic of China in 1985, and moved to the US in 1994. Jin spent his first years in Ithaca, NY, and picked up guitar in 6th grade at Ithaca Guitar Works in the Commons. Every weekend he would carry his case down to the Commons to take lessons. In the summer of 1998, Jin moved to Ridgefield, CT after his father landed a job at a German pharmaceutical company. Jin continued taking guitar lessons, and performed in the jazz band and marching band in school. Due to the allure of an Ivy League education, and a talk about what he wanted to do with his future with the parents, academics became Jin’s priority during High School, and guitar became an informal, part-time hobby. When he came to Cornell, he brought his guitar, expecting to simply let it gather to dust under the bed, but one night, he got an e-mail from Carlos about Assassins auditions, and it changed his life.
LEE LEVITER (String Bass)
CRYSTAL CUN (Keyboard) is a sophomore from Wilbraham, MA, and after a year-long stint as a hotelie, has decided to become an econ major in Arts and Sciences. She is a life-long musician and an avid musical theatre fan. Previous shows includeCrazy For You and The Sound of Music as a violinist, and a semester with “Anything Goes” theater troupe as an accompanist. With the Melodramatics, she keeps busy filling in various parts as a keyboardist and as the vocal accompanist. The Big Red Marching Band is another primary commitment, and every weekend you can catch her marching bells on Cornell campus.
DANIEL JONES (Keyboard) has played piano for 8 years, and is playing in his second orchestra, having played in Crazy for You in high school. A sophomore transfer, he appeared last year last year with the Tufts Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Grieg piano concerto. He has also served as the substitute organist for St. Edward’s Parish in Medfield, MA, his hometown. He is currently studying mechanical engineering.
CATHERINE MENG (Keyboard) is a freshmen at Cornell University, and is very excited to be a part of the Orchestra for Assassins. She has been playing piano since she was in third grade, and also plays the violin. This is only the third musical that she has performed in, but she has previously played in the orchestras for her high school productions of Les Miserables and Cinderella. Catherine is an architecture major, and tries to not spend the entire night working away in studio whenever possible. She is looking forward to many future productions of the Melodramatics!
SCOTT WESTERMAN (Percussion)