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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.
In 1991 he received a patent for the "hornette," an instrument with the same range as a French Horn but with a forward-facing bell for greater projection. He taught at the State University of New York at Purchase from 2001 until 2008, subsequently moving to faculty at Manhattan School of Music.
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.
Sarah Willis was born in Bethesda, Maryland, United States, and grew up in Tokyo, Boston, Moscow, and London. [3] [4] She started playing the French horn at age 14, and attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department.
John Graas (March 14, 1917 – April 13, 1962) was an American jazz French horn player, composer, and arranger from the 1940s through 1962. He had a short but busy career on the West Coast, and became known as a pioneer of the French horn in jazz.
Myers was born in Elkhart, Indiana.He attended Carnegie Mellon University from 1967 to 1971, where he studied French horn with the renowned Forrest Standley.During the summers of 1970 and 1971, Myers attended the Blossom Festival, where he studied music with the principal horn of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Myron Bloom.
French horn, double bass Musical artist Willie Henry Ruff Jr. (September 1, 1931 – December 24, 2023) was an American jazz musician, specializing in the French horn and double bass , and a music scholar and educator, primarily as a Yale professor from 1971 to 2017.
Fred Fox (July 14, 1914 – May 21, 2019) was an American French horn player, brass instrument teacher, [2] and former namesake of the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music. [ 3 ] Musician