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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.
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]
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 was the main horn player of the Orchestre Lamoureux and from 1969 onwards of the Orchestre de Paris. He taught his instrument at the Conservatoire from 1969 to 1989. He left an important discography, recording many pages of chamber music and concertante music, from the 17th century to the contemporary era.
Ahnee Sharon Freeman is a jazz pianist, French horn player and arranger. Freeman played French horn for the jazz opera Escalator over the Hill, Gil Evans's 1973 album Svengali, and in 1983 she worked on a piece of jazz Christmas music. [1] In 1982 she joined Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and recorded three albums with the group ...
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.
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.
John Zirbel. John Zirbel is an American-born French horn player and teacher. He was the principal horn of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (1978/1979–2019) and one of the principal horns at the Aspen Music Festival and School orchestra (from 2000), and also spent a season as principal horn at the San Francisco Symphony (in 2000) and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (in 2005).