Susan McGinn

Flute

Susan McGinn has been a member of the Spring Wind Quintet since 2004 and has served as principal flutist of the Honolulu Symphony since 1990. A native of Detroit, she has studied with some of the world's most respected flutists at several major universities in the United States and in England. She has been awarded positions in major music festivals throughout the United States and Europe, where she has served as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. Currently, she is principal flutist of Oregon's Peter Britt Festival, and has also played in some of Italy's summer opera festival and chamber orchestras. Sue has instructed flute students at several universities in the United States and at many institutions in Hawaii. 

J. Scott Janusch

Oboe

Scott Janusch, Principal Oboe of the Honolulu Symphony, was a scholarship student at the Manhattan School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, respectively. His teachers include John Mack, Elaine Douvas, Henry Schuman and Marc Lifschey. Prior to joining the Honolulu Symphony he performed in musical ensembles in Jamaica and Mexico. Scott has also performed as Principal Oboe with the San Antonio Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and the Santa Barbara Symphony, where he was a featured soloist in April 2004. He has also been featured as a soloist with the Honolulu Symphony on three occasions, performing the Mozart Oboe Concerto in 1990 and 2002, and the Vivaldi d minor Concerto in 1999. Scott has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and participated in the Maui Chamber Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, and the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Also a keyboard artist, Scott has performed on the piano, harpsichord, and celesta for the Honolulu Symphony, Ballet Hawaii, Chamber Music Hawaii, and for many faculty recitals at the University of Hawaii.

James Moffitt

Clarinet

James Moffitt has held the position of Associate Principal and Bass Clarinet with the Honolulu Symphony since 1981, serving four different seasons as acting Principal Clarinet. Clarinetist with Chamber Music Hawaii's Spring Wind Quintet since 1986, he served as Acting Assistant Principal and E-Flat Clarinet with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for two seasons. He has performed, toured and recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Winds. A former member of the Alabama Symphony, he performed with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra for ten seasons and has performed with the Colorado Symphony, the Britt Festival Orchestra, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival.

Jonathan Parrish

Horn

Jonathan Parrish has been Assistant Principal Horn with the Honolulu Symphony since 1998 and has served as Acting Associate Principal and Acting Principal Horn. Before coming to Honolulu he was a member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra for four seasons. Jonathan has also held Principal Horn positions with the National Chamber Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony, and Maryland Symphony and has appeared as guest Principal with the orchestras of Richmond, Fairfax, and New Haven. He has also performed with the Broadway production of Jekyll and Hyde and several festivals including Rutgers Summerfest and the Music Festival of the Hamptons. Jonathan is originally from Virginia and received degrees from James Madison University and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He has also studied horn design and construction and performs on an instrument he built himself as an apprentice to horn craftsman George McCracken.

Marsha Schweitzer

Bassoon

Marsha Schweitzer, Associate Principal Bassoon of the Honolulu Symphony, graduated from Oberlin College. She has studied bassoon with Leonard Sharrow, Kenneth Moore, Artemus Edwards, Steven Maxym, and chamber music with Marcel Moyse. Marsha has been principal bassoonist of the Hawaii Chamber Orchestra, Hawaii Symphony, Maui Symphony, and the Honolulu City Ballet Orchestra, and appeared as soloist with the Hawaii Chamber Orchestra in 1977, the Honolulu Symphony in 1986, and Chamber Music Hawaii in 2000. From 1994 to 2000 Marsha was a member of the Cleveland Ballet/Opera Orchestra. Marsha is a music publisher and a prolific arranger, having expanded the SWQ's repertoire through her many arrangements and transcriptions for woodwinds, many of which are published and recorded. Marsha co-founded and served as the initial executive director of Chamber Music Hawaii and now administers Live Music Awareness, an organization that sponsors musician-run projects. Also active in the labor movement, she currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Musicians' Association of Hawaii, Local 677 AFM. In the 1990's Marsha became nationally known as a labor journalist and from 1996 to 2002 edited Senza Sordino, the newsletter of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians.