List of horn players

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This list of horn players includes horn (French horn) players about whom there is a Wikipedia article.

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• Hermann Baumann, (formerly principal horn with 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
• Bill Barnewitz, principal of Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 1995 as well as principal of Santa Fe Opera and associate professor of horn at Northwestern University
• Richard Bissill
• Aubrey Brain, father of Dennis Brain
• Dennis Brain, principal horn in both Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra, soloist
• Arthur C. Brooks
• Richard Burdick, composer and principal horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra
• John Cerminaro, principal New York Philharmonic (1969–79), principal Seattle Symphony 1996–present
• Roger-Luc Chayer, lyrical french horn First Prize, Nice National Conservatory, France 1991, only Canadian horn player from the French-Russian school of interpretation under Paul Warin, author of The Lyrical Horn Method (2009)
• 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
• Jane Balkoski, second horn San Francisco Conservatory of Music
• 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
• Nicola Gomirato, french horn player, alphorn player and teacher [1]
• Anthony Halstead
• Anton Joseph Hampel, horn player of th 18th century who developed the technique of hand-stopping
• Mark Harding, principal horn in The Hallé Youth Orchestra
• Bruce Henniss, Professor of Horn at the Ohio State University
• Max Hess, Boston Symphony Orchestra 1905–25, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1925–37
• Douglas Hill
• Heinrich Hübler
• Ifor James
• Lin Jiang, Barry Tuckwell Brass Prize winner
• 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
• Joseph Leutgeb
• Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto
• Boštjan Lipovšek
• Frank Lloyd
• John MacDonald
• Philip Myers, principal, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1980–present)
• Jeff Nelsen, horn player for Canadian Brass, on faculty at Indiana University
• David Ohanian, former horn player for the Canadian Brass
• Hermann Neuling
• Martin Owen, principal BBC Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Horn at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music
• Valery Polekh
• Llewellyn Price, principal horn at CYM Orchestra
• Giovanni Punto
• William Purvis
• David Pyatt, London Symphony Orchestra
• Eugene Rittich
• Neill Sanders, Melos Ensemble, London Orchestras
• Will Sanders, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Gerd Seiferd, Berliner Philharmoniker
• Gunther Schuller, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and composer
• James Sommerville, Boston Symphony Orchestra
• 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
• Adam Unsworth, Professor of Horn at the University of Michigan, former member of Philadelphia Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, jazz composer
• William VerMeulen, principal horn of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, professor at the Rice University, international soloist
• Radovan Vlatkovic, former principal of Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982–1990, teacher at Mozarteum in Salzburg, soloist
• 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 State Academy of Music, soloist/clinician
• Gail Williams, soloist, former member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Horn at Northwestern University

[edit] Use of the horn in jazz

The horn is used only rarely in jazz, but there have been a few notable players (see also [2]):

• Pietro Amato, member of The Luyas, Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre and Torngat
• David Amram
• Roger-Luc Chayer (Montreal Horn Quartet available on Youtube)
• John Clark
• Vincent Chancey
• John Graas
• Dave Lee
• Jim Rattigan
• Willie Ruff
• Arkady Shilkloper (articles in German and Russian Wikipedias)
• Gunther Schuller
• Adam Unsworth
• Tom Varner
• Julius Watkins