List of horn players

This list of horn players includes notable horn (French horn) players.

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• Alessio Allegrini,Principal Horn of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome.
• Radek Baborák (former Principal horn Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Phil.Orch, Czech Phil.Orch. winner of the ARD,Geneva,Marktneukichen
• Julie Landsman, former Principal Horn, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (1985–2010), Juilliard Faculty since 1989.
• Robert Routch (the only former french horn artist member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Leopold Stokowski quote "Robert Routch is one of the world's finest french horn players." Performed with TASHI with Peter Serkin, Ida Kavafian, Fred Sherry and Richard Stoltzman, and expanded to perform with many others, such as Jerry Mulligan, Wynton Marsalis, Barry Tuckwell, Queen Latifa, Elvis Costello, and many others)
• Hermann Baumann, (former principal horn Philharmonisches Orchester Dortmund and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, winner of the ARD International Music Competition in 1964, soloist, performing on natural horn and valved horn
• Richard Bissill, player, composer and arranger at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London
• Myron Bloom, principal Cleveland Orchestra 1954–1977
• Aubrey Brain, father of Dennis Brain
• Dennis Brain, principal horn in both Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra, soloist
• Arthur C. Brooks
• Timothy Brown, principal horn in BBC Symphony Orchestra and Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Melos Ensemble
• Edward Brown (Massachusetts, USA, 1948), Principal Lima national Symphony Orchester (1972–1984), Principal Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra.
• William Caballero, principal Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 1989–present
• John Cerminaro, principal New York Philharmonic (1969–79), principal Seattle Symphony 1996–present
• Alan Civil, second horn Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (to Dennis Brain), later principal. In 1955, joined the Philharmonia, and in 1957 became principal horn, after the death of Dennis Brain, principal of BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1966–1988
• Dale Clevenger, principal Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1966–present
• Geoff Collinson, principal horn, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
• David Cripps, London Symphony Orchestra
• Peter Damm, principal horn Dresden Staatskapelle 1969–2002. He is professor of horn at the Carl Maria von Weber music conservatoire.
• Lizzie Davis, head of horn at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and horn tutor at Royal Northern College of Music. She plays with the Lancashire Sinfionetta
• Vincent DeRosa, LA studio player
• Simon de Souza, Professor of Horn at the Birmingham Conservatoire
• Stefan Dohr, principal horn, Berlin Philharmonic
• Pip Eastop, Professor of Horn at Royal Academy of Music in London
• Philip Farkas, principal Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1936–41 and 1947–60, Cleveland Orchestra 1941–45 and 1946–47, Boston Symphony 1945–46, also horn professor at Indiana University from 1960–82
• Randy Gardner, Professor of Horn at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and former 2nd Horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra, author of Mastering the Horn's Low Register
• Anthony Halstead
• Anton Joseph Hampel, horn player of the 18th century who developed the technique of hand-stopping
• Max Hess, Boston Symphony Orchestra 1905–25, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1925–37
• Barbara Hill, Principal French Horn, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Hartford, CT
• Douglas Hill
• Heinrich Hübler
• Ifor James
• Lin Jiang, Barry Tuckwell Brass Prize winner
• Thomas Jostlein, American Horn Competition Winner, former Assistant Principal New York Philharmonic, associate principal horn at St. Louis Symphony (2010–present)
• Daniel Katzen, former member of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Associate Professor of Horn at the "University of Arizona School of Music" in Tucson
• Georg Kopprasch, composer of the Kopprasch Etudes
• Peter Kurau, principal Rochester Philharmonic and Professor of Horn at the Eastman School of Music
• Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, Bohemian horn player and composer of Horn concertos.
• Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto
• Joseph Leutgeb
• Boštjan Lipovšek
• Frank Lloyd
• John MacDonald
• Joseph Masella, principal horn of both the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Montreal Orchestra from 1943-1969.
• Philip Myers, principal, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1980–present)
• Jeff Nelsen, horn player for Canadian Brass, on faculty at Indiana University
• Hermann Neuling
• David Ohanian, former horn player for the Canadian Brass
• Martin Owen, principal BBC Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Horn at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music
• Valery Polekh
• Giovanni Punto
• William Purvis
• David Pyatt, London Symphony Orchestra
• Eugene Rittich
• Neill Sanders, Melos Ensemble, London Orchestras
• Will Sanders, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Lorenzo Sansone, member of major North American symphony orchestras, music editor, educator, and horn manufacturer.
• Gunther Schuller, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and composer
• Bernhard Scully
• James Sommerville, Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Stephen Stirling, principal horn City of London Sinfonia, co-principal horn Academy of St Martin in the Fields, teaches at Trinity College of Music, soloist, chamber musician
• Franz Strauss
• Esa Tapani, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
• James Thatcher, LA studio player
• Michael Thompson, former principal with Philharmonia Orchestra, teacher at Royal Academy of Music, soloist/chamber musician/clinician
• Barry Tuckwell, former principal horn London Symphony Orchestra, soloist and clinician
• William VerMeulen, principal horn of the Houston Symphony 1990–present, soloist, professor of horn at Rice University, member of International Horn Society Advisory Council
• Radovan Vlatkovic, former principal of Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982–1990, teacher at Mozarteum in Salzburg, soloist
• David Wakefield, American Brass Quintet, Professor at Juilliard College
• Richard Watkins, principal horn of Philharmonia Orchestra from 1985–1996, teaching at Royal Academy of Music, soloist, chamber musician, clinician
• Froydis Ree Wekre, member of Oslo Philharmonic from 1961–1991, co-principal from 1965 on, Professor of Horn at Norwegian Academy of Music, soloist, clinician
• Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) Franz Strauss's son

Use of the horn in jazz

The horn is used only rarely in jazz, but there have been a few notable players (see also [1]):

• Pietro Amato, member of The Luyas, Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre and Torngat
• David Amram
• John Clark
• Vincent Chancey
• Sharon Freeman
• John Graas
• Dave Lee
• Bob Northern
• Willie Ruff
• Arkady Shilkloper (articles in German and Russian Wikipedias)
• Gunther Schuller
• Robert Routch
• Charles Mingus
• Si Johnson
• Tom Varner
• Julius Watkins
• Giovanni Hoffer, member of HofferQuattro

External links

• Harlan Feinstein's List of Jazz Horn Players