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In the 1990s, Jenna Baumgart served the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra as principal viola, personnel manager and music librarian. She was responsible for locating and hiring import musicians, and making sure they got paid.

Belinda Waldron, cello, played in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s.

Virginia Himes began playing violin in the Casper Civic Symphony in 1974 and retired from what had become the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in 2019, totaling 45 years.

Amy Cowell played cello in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s when in high school. She now plays regularly as an import musician, commuting from Laramie, Wyoming.

Susan Stanton joined the orchestra in 1994, and still played violin in the symphony as of the end of the 2023-2024 season.

Richard Turner was principal bassoon with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra starting in 1996, and is still in the orchestra. The symphony featured him as a local soloist in spring 1999, when he performed the Mozart Bassoon Concerto.

Dino Madsen played cello in the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra while a student at Casper College, in the 1990s.

Holly Turner, a fund-raising fireball, was executive director in the 1990s. She implemented the Dream Home project, which involved a substantial proportion of Casper’s business community. Dream Home netted the symphony about $130,000, a new precedent in fundraising.

Carolyn Deuel played every percussion instrument except tympani, in the Casper and Wyoming Symphony Orchestras, from 1976 through the present. Her specialty is mallet percussion.

Rick Rognstad, cello and bass, played cello in the Casper Civic Symphony while in high school and also as an import during the years he attended college in Colorado. He won the Young Artist Competition on bass as a high school junior.