Membership History
1st Violin:
- Leonard Sorkin (1946–1982)
- Ralph Evans (1982-current)
2nd Violin:
- Joseph Stepansky (1946–1954)
- Abram Loft (1954–1979)
- Lawrence Shapiro (1979–1983)
- Efim Boico (1983-current)
Viola:
- Sheppard Lehnhoff (1946–1952)
- Irving Ilmer (1952–1963)
- Gerald Stanick (1963–1968)
- Bernard Zaslav (1968–1980)
- Jerry Horner (1980–2000)
- Michael Strauss (2000–2001)
- Yuri Gandelsman (2001–2008)
- Chauncey Patterson (2008–2009)
- Nicolò Eugelmi (2009-current)
Violoncello:
- George Sopkin (1946–1979)
- Wolfgang Laufer (1979-2011)
- Robert Cohen (2012-current)
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