meet your
Musicians
to a performing arts high school in Las
Vegas. Kämper played the violin and
piano by age 10 before switching to
flute. The performing arts school, where
she was surrounded by creative peers,
was pivotal to her artistic growth.
When she’s not chasing toddlers,
Kämper loves playing beach volleyball
and card games. Of course, rehearsals
take plenty of time, but for Kämper,
the BSO feels like family. As a student
at Peabody, she attended BSO performances weekly, so when she joined
permanently in 2006, she became a part
of “the orchestra I grew up with.”
Marcia
Melissa
Q
Q
What do you like most about
being a part of the BSO?
Who or what first inspired you
to pick up your instrument?
As a student at Peabody,
I would attend the BSO weekly.
So I feel like this is the
orchestra I grew up with.
My first instrument was
piano, inspired by my father,
who was a professor of music
at Indiana University.
I was always surrounded by
music and musicians.
Melissa Zaraya
Second Violin
Melissa Zaraya is a master of the onehanded bandit. That’s no euphemism