He participates in the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, Music in the Mountains in Durango, CO, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. In addition to three concerto performances with the Houston Symphony, he has appeared on the Chamber Players series, and with Da Camera of Houston and the Greenbriar Consortium. The Bad Boys have played in homeless shelters and elementary schools in an effort to eliminate the classist misconceptions about classical music.įrench is a graduate of North Park University in Chicago, where he won the Performance Award. He enjoys performing with the Bad Boys of Cello, the alter ego of the Houston Symphony cello section.
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French is the seventh of a full octave of musical siblings. Before joining the orchestra in 1986, he held titled positions in both the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and the Honolulu Symphony.
Joan has been a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra for 21 years.Ĭhristopher French is the associate principal cellist of the Houston Symphony. She attended the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg, Germany, where she studied with violist Kim Kashkashian. DerHovsepian holds a Bachelor and Master of Music degrees and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, studying with James Dunham of the Cleveland Quartet. She participates annually at the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the National Orchestral Institute, and as Principal Viola of the Peninsula Music Festival. She is regular guest faculty for the New World Symphony and has given master classes in the study of orchestral excerpts at the New England Conservatory and for the viola students of the Juilliard School.
DerHovsepian is an Artist Teacher of Viola at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, instructing students in viola orchestral repertoire and chamber music. She has appeared as guest principal viola with the Cincinnati Symphony. DerHovsepian was Principal Viola of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra for two seasons and played in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She joined the viola section of the Houston Symphony in 1999, hired by Christoph Eschenbach, and began serving as Associate Principal in the fall of 2010. This was verified on the ALTer EGO website.Joan DerHovsepian holds the position of Acting Principal Viola of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. The ALTer EGO 2020 date was Jan 18 at 7:30 PM. Billie Eilish, The Black Keys, Blink-182, Coldplay, The Lumineers, Rex Orange County, Shaed were all on the livestream schedule. The livestream was hosted by Woody of iHeartRadio ALT 98.7’s The Woody Show. There's was even an ALTer EGO live stream from LiveXLive, who was one of their partners. Learn more about the festival experience. This was its third year, and iHeartRadio promised to deliver ALTer EGO 2020 as the best one yet. Hit the ticket section below for more details on ALTer EGO tickets.ĪLTer EGO 2020 was done by iHeartRadio in Los Angeles as way to take the best Alternative Music heard on the music stream and bring it to a real experience as a live performance. The ALTer EGO 2020 lineup has Billie Eilish, The Black Keys, Blink-182, Coldplay, The Lumineeers, Rex Orange and more! See the complete ALTer EGO lineup farther below for details.ĪLTer EGO 2020 tickets are no longer on sale.