Victoria was a percussionist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2006 to 2010. She went on tour to South Korea, served as publicity manager, and was part of the student committee for the appointment of Federico Cortese. A graduate of the Harvard/NEC dual degree program, she joint concentrated in Music and History of Art and Architecture. She is visiting assistant professor of music at Carleton College.

Cathy played viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1970–1974. She also performed in the Bach Society, Lowell House Opera, and numerous other pick-up ensembles during her years in Cambridge. Somehow she managed to fit in two years on the Radcliffe Crew Team (1972–73) as well, traveling with them to the European Championships in Moscow in 1973.

Cathy is a specialist in cultural diplomacy and creative industry development, and an independent producer with 25 years of experience working with the People’s Republic of China. She received a 2015 Silver Magnolia Award from the Shanghai government in recognition of her longtime contributions to the economic and social development of the city, and the 2018 Patrick Hayes Award from the International Society for the Performing Arts, in recognition of her transformative leadership in the performing arts.

Cathy has spent over 35 years managing and consulting to organizations including The Philadelphia Orchestra, the United States Department of State, The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, The Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, Arts Midwest, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Juilliard School, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, China Shanghai International Arts Festival, and the China National Centre for the Performing Arts. She was the lead architect of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s current China tour/residency project.

Cathy has served on the boards of the International Society for the Performing Arts and City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong), and currently services on the Ping Chong & Company (theater) board. She is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Maryellen was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1982–1984, and Development Manager of the HRO's 1984 Tour to Europe.

A natural leader, Gleason has overseen four nonprofits including three orchestras: Interim Executive Director for the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra; President and Executive Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; and, President and CEO of the Phoenix Symphony. The fourth nonprofit was an early career startup where Gleason served as Executive Director of the Senior PGA Tour Event GTE North Classic whose 501(c)3 she built from the ground up.

Throughout her career, Gleason has served on and administered a variety of fiduciary, advisory, endowment, foundation, and pension trust boards. While working as an accounts director at Qwest, she was appointed by then-Governor of Arizona, Jane Dee Hull, as the telecommunications industry representative for the Small Business Rural Incubator Advisory Board. She also chaired the Unsecured Creditors Committee in U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court for an Internet bankruptcy.

A long-time member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Gleason has served as Education Chair for the Women’s YPO Network, where she led “Board Talks” training seminars for YPOers in search of corporate board service. Gleason is chair-elect of the YPO Digital, Marketing and Media Network for 2018–2020. In addition to her work with YPO, Gleason is a member of the International Women’s Forum and Women Corporate Directors.

Gleason earned an undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied History and Literature. While she worked full-time in Phoenix, Gleason commuted to Chicago in order to earn an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Prior to transferring to Harvard, Gleason attended Boston University School of Music and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. An avid amateur violist, she has attended Kneisel Hall Adult Chamber Music Institute, Great Lakes Chamber Music seminar and the Manhattan String Quartet seminar.

Current board service includes Harvard Alumni Association.

Fred was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1988–1992, and later played in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra while a graduate student in computer science, and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra as a member of the first violin section. He was a camper and counselor at Greenwood Music Camp. In 2014, he and his father were awarded The David P. Robbins Prize in Algebra, Combinatorics, and Discrete Mathematics for their work on squaring the plane. Fred was a software architect at athenahealth and is now a data engineer at Prealize Health. He lives with his family in Connecticut, as his wife chairs the math department at Suffield Academy. Fred currently serves on the boards of the HRO Foundation, the Holyoke Civic Symphony, and Greenwood Music Camp.

Li-Wen was a first violinist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1988 to 1992 and was invited to participate in HRO’s 1988 East Asia tour the summer before his freshman year. He was also involved in the planning of HRO’s 1992 European tour, and it remains one of his few Harvard regrets to have chosen to skip that tour but instead started working on Wall Street in NY right after graduation. A native of Taiwan, Li-Wen came to Baltimore in 1985 to study at Peabody and Baltimore School for the Arts before Harvard. He has been a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch in Towson, MD since 2010 and has been in various roles in financial services in New York, London, and Baltimore since 1992. Li-Wen lives in Baltimore with his wife Sharon Solomon (H ’92 Mather) and their twin boys, and currently serves on the boards of Baltimore School for the Arts (first alum trustee and board chair) and the Shriver Hall Concert Series.

Caroline Choi Kim was a violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1992–1996. She served as concertmaster for three years and has many fond and formative memories of making music with friends in HRO on campus, serving the local community as part of HRO outreach initiatives and on tour in Italy (1996). After graduation, Caroline received a degree in medicine at Harvard Medical School while also serving as a pre-med and music resident tutor at Winthrop House.  She completed her internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and residency at the Harvard Combined Dermatology Program.  Caroline went on to a career in academic medicine as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and she is a nationally recognized expert in melanoma and atypical moles.  Caroline is currently Director of the Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Programs at Newton-Wellesley Dermatology Associates and at Tufts Medical Center, focused on optimizing and innovating the care of high-risk patients. Caroline enjoys spending time and enjoys music with her three children and husband, Howard Kim (’96).

Eugene was a violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2006–2010.  Eugene is a past HRO president, and was on the search committee that hired the HRO’s current Music Director, Federico Cortese.  He concentrated in economics for his undergraduate degree, then earned a master’s degree in applied mathematics.  In 2010, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he is currently a vice president specializing in multi-strategy investing, alternative energy investing, and emerging themes.

Mary Ellen was a bassoonist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1976–1979, and participated in the Berlin Tour. Mary Ellen is a Director of Sales Operations in Oracle Corporation’s public sector practice.  Mary Ellen has been on the Board of the HRO Foundation since 1986, serving as Secretary for many of those years.  She lived in Japan for several years after graduation, and has lived in the Boston area since 1982. She currently resides in Jamaica Plain with her teenage daughter.

Arpi was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2009–2013.  Arpi concentrated in neurobiology at Harvard, and even though she decided not pursue music professionally, being involved in HRO and chamber music was very important and central to her time in college. Arpi served as HRO’s Ticket Manager her freshman year (2009–2010), then as Financial Manager for two terms (2010–2012) through HRO’s tour to Cuba, and finally became Co-Tour Director for HRO’s Middle East tour in 2013.  Currently, Arpi works at Mass General Hospital in the cardiology division, helping conduct research trials on various cardiovascular devices prior to FDA approval.

Jenny Yu Wang is a Harvard College Class of ‘22 graduate, with a joint AB in Neurobiology and Music. She was a flutist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2018-2022, and served as General Manager for a semester (2019) and President for two years (2019–2022). During her time as President, she led the orchestra through the Covid-19 pandemic and oversaw the 2022 Tour to Mexico, the Orchestra’s first international tour post-pandemic in 5 years. In 2020, Jenny was awarded the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award by the Harvard Office for the Arts for significant contributions to the HRO.

​Jenny is currently a first-year medical school student at the University of Illinois in Chicago College of Medicine. She continues to serve as a director of Virtual Bedside Concerts, a Harvard Medical School organization that uses virtual performance to combat loneliness in hospitals. In Chicago, she expanded this organization to co-found HeartBeats with peers, a group which organizes performances by medical school students and other interested musicians for patients and community centers. This organization was created during the pandemic to harness the arts and technology to address issues of loneliness and isolation in hospitals. Outside of medicine and music, Jenny is also passionate about food and film.

NaYoung Yang was a violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2014–2018. She graduated from Harvard in 2018 as a premed, Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology concentrator with a secondary in Music and language citation in French. NaYoung served as HRO’s Ads Manager (2014), Director of Outreach (2015–2016), Co-TourDirector for the 2017 Argentina Tour (2015–2017), President (2017), and co-concertmaster (2017–2018), and traveled with the HRO on its tours to The Philippines and South Korea (2015) and Argentina (2017). She is pursuing a Master of Public Health at the Imperial College London and is a violinist in the London Doctors Orchestra and Choir.

Scott Yoo (A.B. '93) performed in the HRO from 1989-93 as a Physics concentrator in North (Pforzheimer) House. After graduation, he started the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra with Richard Lim, a fellow HRO violinist. Today, Scott is the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Music Director of Festival Mosaic in California, and Conductor of the Colorado College Music Festival. He is also host and executive producer of Now Hear This on PBS, presented by Great Performances.