| Not to worry, my list is from a bass online forum called talkbass.com - there's a thread there that lists who wins jobs throughout the year.
Anyway, onto more illustrious bassists --
Boston Symphony section
Ed Barker (principal) - NEC
Larry Wolfe (assistant) - NEC
Ben Levy - NEC
Dennis Roy - NEC
Joseph Hearne - Juilliard
Jim Orleans - IU, Boston Conservatory
Todd Seeber - BU
John Stovall - UT, transferred to NEC
Chicago Symphony section
Joe Guastafeste (principal) - Juilliard
Dan Armstrong - Juilliard
Roger Cline - Juilliard, U Michigan
Joe DiBello - University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Rob Kassinger - MSM, Juilliard, IU
Brad Opland - Curtis
Met Opera
Tim Cobb (principal) - Curtis
Leigh Mesh (associate principal) - SUNY Purchase, Curtis
Jeremy McCoy (assistant) - Curtis
Dan Krekler - MSM, Yale, IU
Rest of the section - ??
NY Phil Section
Eugene Levinson - Leningrad Conservatory
John Deak - Juilliard, Oberlin, U of Illinois, Fulbright scholar at Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome
Orin O'Brien - Juilliard
Randall Butler - current PhD candidate at Columbia
David Grossman - Juilliard
Satoshi Okamoto - Juilliard, Tokyo University of Fine Arts
Michele Saxon - Juilliard
Baltimore Symph section
Robert Barney (principal) - Peabody
Hampton Childress (assistant) - University of Montana
Arnold Gregorian - Peabody
Mark Huang - Peabody, Curtis
Jonathan Jensen - Northwestern
David Sheets - Eastman
Eric Stahl - Northwestern
Philly Orchestra section
Hal Robinson (principal) - Northwestern, Peabody
Michael Shahan (assistant) - Curtis
Neil Courtney - Eastman
John Hood - U Michigan
Emilio Gravgano - DePaul, Curtis
Henry Scott - Eastman, Rochester
David Fay - Eastman, Royal Academy of Music, U Michigan
Duane Rosengard - CIM
Robert Kesselman - Curtis, Temple |