After a three year search for a new concertmaster, the Seattle Symphony hired four violinists for the job last month. It’s a perhaps innovative, certainly unusual, arrangement where three of the concertmasters are actually out-of-towners who have full-time jobs elsewhere. Two are concertmasters of other orchestras. One is a professor at Yale. The fourth is Maria Larionoff, the Seattle Symphony violinist who was acting concertmaster during the search. She originally refused to be considered for the position but has obviously reconsidered now that she has the opportunity to share it with others, giving her a break from the added stress. Some insiders, who would not go on record, believe the shared situation was created to eventually place Larionoff into the role full-time.