Lynne Turner (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography)
Harpist Lynne Turner will conclude her 63-year tenure with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the end of the current 2024-2025 season, the orchestra has announced.
Appointed to the orchestra in 1962 by then-music director Fritz Reiner, Turner is, along with principal trombone Jay Friedman, the longest-serving musician in the CSO’s history. Turner has been a vital member of the orchestra during the Solti, Barenboim, and Muti eras. She also served on the faculty of DePaul University and Lake Forest College
Turner’s final performances at Orchestra Hall will take place later this month with two Mahler symphonies. She’ll then take part in the orchestra’s European tour. Turner will retire following the CSO’s residency at the Ravinia Festival this summer.
Turner’s father was a long-serving violinist with the CSO, her mother was a piano teacher, and her brother was the Winnipeg Symphony’s principal harpist for over 45 years.
