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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.
Willis worked and co-created an album called "Mozart y Mambo" with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra, which is "a chamber orchestra made up of young and talented Cuban musicians and their Cuban conductor José Antonio Méndez Padrón (Pepe), and also well-known musicians from the Cuban popular music scene." It features famous French Horn solos ...
In 1968, Brubaker received his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music [2] and later pursued a Master of Music degree from the Catholic University of America. [3] Brubaker served for 30 years in the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., as a French horn soloist and composer and arranger. In 1985, he became the band's chief ...
Georges Barboteu (1924–2006), Former professor at CNSM, member of the French French-horn school, horn instructor of many current French French hornists Hermann Baumann (1934–2023), former principal horn Philharmonisches Orchester Dortmund and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , winner of the ARD International Music Competition in 1964 ...
Concerto in E-flat for solo horn, 2 flutes, 2 horns, and strings; Trio for Horn, Violin and Cello in E-flat; Anton Teyber. Two Concertos for Corni da Caccia; Othon Vandenbroek 1st Symphonie concertante E-flat major for 2 horns solo and orchestra; Johann Christoph Vogel. Concertante No. 1 in E major for 2 Horns and Orchestra
From 1980 to 2017, Myers was the principal horn of the New York Philharmonic and frequently appeared as soloist with the orchestra. [1] Before arriving at the New York Philharmonic, he was principal horn of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1971 to 1974, third horn of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1974 to 1977, and principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra ...
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.
He resigned from the orchestra in 1968 to pursue a career as a soloist and conductor. For the next thirty years, he carved out a career exclusively as soloist – one of the few horn virtuosos to have done so [citation needed], rather than combining occasional concert performances with an orchestral position or a teaching post.