Bonnie Thron joined the North Carolina Symphony as Principal Cellist in 2000. She is an active chamber musician locally and plays frequently with the Mallarme Chamber Players. She is a member of Three For All which is a clarinet trio with her husband, clarinetist Fred Jacobowitz and pianist Anatoly Larkin. During the summertime Bonnie has been a guest artist with the Sebago Long Lake Music Festival in Harrison Maine for over 20 years. She has also been a regular guest on the Washington Musica Viva series. Previously Bonnie was a member of the Peabody Trio, in residence at the Peabody Institute, during which time the group won the Naumberg chamber music competition. Early in her career Bonnie was assistant principal cellist of the Denver Symphony and she played and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. Bonnie has performed concertos with the North Carolina Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Panama National Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and various other orchestras in North Carolina and her original home state of New Hampshire. She received both a bachelors and a masters degree from the Juilliard School. Her teachers include Lynn Harrell, Norman Fischer and Elsa Hilger.
