Wetherbee died of cancer on Monday at age 56.
He served as concertmaster — a term for the first violinist and string section leader — from 1994 to 2011 and remained on Columbus stages as a founding member of the“When he’d walk out to tune the orchestra and he’d smile at the audience, I think everybody that he looked at felt like he was playing directly for them — and I think, in all honesty, he was,” said violist Korine Fujiwara, a former member of...
In 2021, however, Wetherbee experienced a return of his cancer, which metastasized and ultimately affected the vertebrae in his neck, a lung, his lower back, sacral bone and liver, said his wife, Karina Wetherbee, by email on Tuesday. A native of Buffalo, New York, Wetherbee studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. After he won the spot of concertmaster at the Columbus Symphony in 1994, he raised the level of playing in the symphony, said assistant principal cellist Wendy Morton.
In 2011, following a period of financial challenges for the symphony, Wetherbee resigned from the organization. By then, Carpe Diem had already established itself as a much-admired string quartet with both a strong local presence and an international reputation.
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