Simon Crookall, president and CEO of the orchestra, supports such extracurricular pursuits, telling The Indianapolis Star that the concertmasters he seeks are of an "extremely high caliber" and so naturally have careers as soloists and chamber musicians.
De Pue, formerly with the Philadelphia Orchestra, is a co-founder of Time for Three, a crossover string band; he also frequently plays chamber music with his three brothers, all of whom are professional string players.
Kerr has been the concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Charleston and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras in the U.S. He was appointed an endowed professorship at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music last year, becoming the youngest violin professor in its string department.
