Hollis Ulaky

Hollis Ulaky is currently Principal Oboist of the Charlotte Symphony.  She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied with Thomas Fay and James Gorton.   Before joining the CSO,  Ms. Ulaky was principal oboist in the Wheeling Symphony,  and Opera Festival Orchestra in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  She has performed chamber music at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Charles Ives Center for the Performing Arts  and at Piccolo Spoleto.  As a  founding member of the chamber music group, Rhodora, Ms. Ulaky continues to perform recitals throughout the southeast.   She recently premiered works for oboe and organ, and oboe , bassoon and piano at the IDRS conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

Ms. Ulaky has been featured in Today’s Charlotte Woman Magazine,  The Charlotte Observer , and was voted Best Female Instrumentalist in 2004 by Charlotte Magazine.

An avid educator, Ms. Ulaky  serves on the faculties of Winthrop University and Queens University of Charlotte  and was a member of the faculty  of Cannon Music Camp at Appalachian  University and woodwind coach for the Youth Symphony of the Carolinas

Hollis Ulaky is a Yamaha Performing Artist

Erica Cice

New to the Charlotte Symphony as of November is oboist Erica Cice from Natick, Massachusetts. She comes from a musical family and has played the piano  longer than she has played the oboe.  Erica's early oboe studies were with Ron Kaye and Wayne Rapier.

She did her undergraduate studies at Temple University where she studied with Louis Rosenblatt and she has interrupted her graduate studies with famed oboe teacher Richard Woodhams to come to Charlotte after winning the CSO's national oboe auditions last summer.

So far her favorite piece played with the CSO is Bartok"s "Concerto for Orchestra". Her leisure time activities include playing the piano, cooking, skiing and aural music theory.

Erica is the newest (and probably the youngest) member of the Symphony.
This is her first full-time orchestral position. Welcome to Charlotte, Erica!

Terry Maskin

Terry Maskin, English hornist of the Charlotte Symphony since 1986, has held English horn positions with the Richmond Symphony, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Grand Teton Music Festival and at Eastern Music Festival. He has also performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Maskin has appeared as a soloist with the Charlotte Symphony on both oboe and English horn, including performances of Persichetti's "English Horn Concerto" on the CSO's Classics series. His Eastern Music Festival performance of Copland's "Quiet City" was featured on National Public Radio.

Terry Maskin is a graduate of Harvard, where he studied Economics and served as captain of the table tennis team.

Mr. Maskin is a member of Mensa International, and he was one of the winners in the 2007 Charlotte Observer Sonnet Contest. He is married to Jennifer Sperry, the founder of Brightstar Music Festival and a former member of the CSO oboe section. Jenny and Terry have two children, Rachel and Sharon.

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