Her father was a violinist and a concertmaster. He recruited London Symphony Orchestra leader Alexander Barantschik to become SFS concertmaster. He studied under Isidor Saslav, concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In orchestra, the concertmaster (principal first violin player) is the instrumentalist leader of the orchestra. At age sixteen he worked as assistant concertmaster for the Central Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. The unlikely musician thus became the concertmaster of his school orchestra. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Rainer Honeck. Geoffrey Trabichoff is Concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic. The Philadelphia Orchestra's current concertmaster is David Kim. Four years later he became its concertmaster/conductor. Its concertmaster, Ferdinand David, had invited Brahms to have his concerto performed there. He first studied violin with a local concertmaster. The concertmaster usually sits to the conductor's left, closest to the audience. The first-chair clarinet concertmaster will, in common practice, play all solos for their instrument. The Principal Concertmaster is Honoured Artist of Russia V. Brodsky.