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This list of horn players and pedagogues includes notable players of French horn, German horn, natural horn, Vienna horn, tenor (alto) horn, and alphorn This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Anton Horner (June 21, 1877 – December 4, 1971) was an American horn player. He was part of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years and served for 28 years as its solo horn player. He is credited for introducing the double horn to the United States.
Alfred Edwin Brain (February 4, 1860 in Turnham Green, London – October 25, 1929 in London) was an English player of the French horn. He was the founder of a great school of English horn playing. His grandson Dennis Brain was to become perhaps the most famous horn player of all time. Brain was born in 1860.
Willis is the host of the regular online series Horn Hangouts, [12] which are streamed live on her website and archived on her YouTube channel. The series includes interviews with famous musicians, as well as tips on playing the instrument. She credits the series with helping to create an online community of horn players around the world. [13]
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Julie Landsman (born April 3, 1953) is an American-born French horn player and teacher. Landsman was Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera from 1985-2010. Prior to her appointment with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Landsman served as co-principal horn with the Houston Symphony, and has toured internationally with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Robert Lee Watt (born January 15, 1948) is an American horn player and the first African-American French hornist hired by a major symphony orchestra in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey , his father was a jazz trumpet player who did not approve of his choice of instrument—feeling Watt's background and race ...
In 2009, he performed Knussen's Horn Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms live on BBC Four TV and on BBC Radio 3. [10] In 2006, he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Music. He has been professor of horn there since 2008. [11] Martin Owen is represented by Worldwide Artists Management. [12]