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He is professor of horn at the Carl Maria von Weber music conservatoire. Vincent DeRosa, LA studio player; Richard Dunbar, was a player of the French horn, playing in the free jazz scene. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 29, 1944, and he died suddenly at the age of 61, apparently of a heart attack, on the way to a gig on February 8, 2006.
The following horn players have publicly acknowledged studying with DeRosa. Nathan Campbell (Professor of French horn, The Master's University) [27] James Thatcher (Session player, recipient of the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences) [28] Brian O'Connor (Professor of Horn at UCLA) [28]
He toured Europe in 1900 with the Sousa Band. From 1902 until his retirement in 1946, Horner performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, [3] whose director Eugene Ormandy later called him "not only one of the greatest horn players of his time, but of all time”. [4] Horner also taught for many years at the Curtis Institute of Music. [5]
Richard Bissill is a French horn player, composer and arranger, and Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. [1]Born in Leicestershire, he was a member of the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra and he then studied horn and piano at the Royal Academy of Music before joining the London Symphony Orchestra in 1981.
In 1969, Watkins played French horn for the beat poet Allen Ginsberg's album Songs of Innocence and Experience (1970), a musical adaptation of William Blake's poetry collection of the same name. [4] Suffering from diabetes, liver and kidney problems, and chronic alcoholism, Watkins died from a heart attack in Short Hills, New Jersey, at the age ...
Schuller was born in Queens, New York City, [1] the son of German parents Elsie (Bernartz) and Arthur E. Schuller, a violinist with the New York Philharmonic. [2] He studied at the Saint Thomas Choir School and became an accomplished French horn player and flute player.
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]
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.