This list of horn players and pedagogues includes notable players of French horn, German horn, natural horn, Vienna horn, tenor (alto) horn, and alphorn.

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* Radek Baborák, former Principal horn Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Phil. Orch, Czech Phil. Orch. winner of the ARD, Geneva, Markneukirchen, Concertino Praga Hochschule für Musik Saar. * Andrew Bain, principal horn of the

Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic, commonly referred to as the LA Phil, is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at th ...

, LA studio player, horn professor at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, California *

Georges Barboteu Georges Yves Barboteu (1 April 1924 – 30 September 2006) was a French horn player and composer. Biography He was the son of a horn teacher at the Conservatoire d'Alger, he himself started playing the horn at the age of nine, and won first p ...

(1924–2006), Former professor at CNSM, member of the French French-horn school, horn instructor of many current French French hornists *

Hermann Baumann Hermann Baumann may refer to: * Hermann Baumann (social anthropologist) (1902–1972), German Africa expert * Hermann Baumann (musician) Hermann Baumann (born 1 August 1934) is a German horn player. Biography After starting his musical career ...

(*1934), former principal horn Philharmonisches Orchester Dortmund and

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: ''Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR'') was a German radio orchestra based in Stuttgart in Germany. History The ensemble was founded in 1945 by American occupation authorities as the orchest ...

, winner of the

ARD International Music Competition The ARD International Music Competition (german: link=no, Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD) is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is organised by the Bayerischer Rundfunk and held once a year in Munich. Si ...

in 1964, soloist, performing on natural horn and valved horn * Richard Bissill, player, composer, arranger and professor *

Aubrey Brain Aubrey Brain (12 July 189321 September 1955) was a British horn player and teacher. He was the father of Dennis Brain. Biography Aubrey Harold Brain was born in London in 1893. He came from a musical family. His father, Alfred Edwin Brain Sr. w ...

, player (1893–1955) * Dennis Brain, player (1921–1957) *

Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and academic. Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of twelve books, including ''Love Your Enemies'' (2019), The ''Co ...

, social scientist whose previous profession was horn player * Timothy Brown, principal horn in BBC Symphony Orchestra and Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Melos Ensemble

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* John Cerminaro, principal New York Philharmonic (1969–79), principal Seattle Symphony 1996–2011 * Alan Civil, second horn

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London, that performs and produces primarily classic works. The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable ...

(to Dennis Brain), later principal. In 1955, joined the Philharmonia, and in 1957 became principal horn, after the death of Dennis Brain, principal of BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 1988 * Dale Clevenger, principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 2013 * Thomas Coates, hornist with Pomp's Cornet Band, Easton, Pennsylvania (1840s to 1850s) and conductor, regimental band,

47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment The 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Formed by adults and teenagers from small towns and larger metropolitan areas of Pennsylvania, this regiment ...

(1861-82) *

Geoff Collinson Geoff Collinson is an Australian horn player and was the head of the brass department at the University of Melbourne. He was the principal horn with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra from 1990 until 2000; he was also guest principal horn o ...

, principal horn,

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra The Opera Australia Orchestra (based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a full-time salaried orchestra, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Opera Australia. It is one of three salaried orchestras in Sydney, along with the Sydney Symphony Orches ...

David Cripps David Cripps is a British active horn-player and conductor. He was principal horn in the London Symphony Orchestra during the years that they played Star Wars and Superman. He has also performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hal ...

Star Wars ''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop-culture Cultural impact of S ...

original trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983) and

Superman (1978 film) ''Superman'' (stylized as ''Superman: The Movie'') is a 1978 superhero film based on the character by DC Comics. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Panama and the United States, it was supervised by Alexand ...

principal horn, principal horn London Symphony Orchestra for 10 years.

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Stefan Dohr Stefan Dohr (born September 3, 1965 in Münster) is a German horn player and currently the principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker). Apart from being a sought-after masterclass teacher, he teaches the horn at t ...

, principal horn, Berlin Philharmonic, hailed as the
king of his instrument
. Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music, the Sibelius Academy, and a permanent faculty member at the

Herbert von Karajan Academy The Karajan Academy is a music academy in Berlin, Germany, associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, that trains young orchestral musicians. Background The Academy is a non-profit organization, financed by donations; its work is supported by a volun ...

and the Hochschule für Musik 'Hanns Eisler' in Berlin. * Peter Damm, principal horn Dresden Staatskapelle 1969–2002. He is professor of horn at the Carl Maria von Weber music conservatoire. * Vincent DeRosa, LA studio player *

Richard Dunbar Richard Dunbar was a player of the French horn, playing in the free jazz scene. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 22, 1944. He began studying the French horn in high school and never put it down. He also was known to play the bass guita ...

, 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. * Simon de Souza, professor of horn at the Birmingham Conservatoire *

Vladimir Djambazov Vladimir Djambazov ( bg, Владимир Джамбазов) (born Sevlievo, Bulgaria, 28 October 1954) is a Bulgarian composer and horn player. Education He first studied at the Music academy in Sofia under Professor Karel Stari (1976–78). ...

, second horn of the Sofia Philharmonic and composer

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Pip Eastop Pip Eastop (born 1958) is a virtuoso horn player from London, England. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1974 to 1976, leaving to take up the position of Principal Horn with the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra (now known as the Royal F ...

, professor of horn at

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...

in London *

John Entwistle John Alec Entwistle (9 October 194427 June 2002) was an English musician who was the bassist for the rock band The Who. Entwistle's music career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers", he was the band's only member ...

, bass player from The Who, also played horn

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Philip Farkas Philip Farkas (March 5, 1914 – December 21, 1992) was the principal French horn player in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many years, and he left in 1960 to join the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include ''T ...

, principal Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1936–41 and 1947–60, Cleveland Orchestra 1941–45 and 1946–47, Boston Symphony 1945–46, also horn professor at Indiana University from 1960–1992

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Jacques-François Gallay Jacques-François Gallay (8 December 1795 – 18 October 1864)"Gallay, Jacques François". Grove Music Online. was a French horn player, academic and composer of music for the instrument. His ''Méthode'' for the natural horn was published in 1845. ...

(1795–1864), French player, academic at the Paris Conservatoire and composer; author of ''Méthode pour le Cor'' (1845) *

Livia Ruth Gollancz Livia Ruth Gollancz (25 May 1920 − 28 March 2018) was the first female principal horn of a major UK symphony orchestra. Early life and education Livia Ruth Gollancz was born in London on 25 May 1920. Gollancz was the eldest child of the arti ...

(1920–2018), principal horn of the Hallé, BBC Scottish Orchestra and other UK ensembles during the 1940s-50s * David Guerrier, French trumpeter and hornist, former professor at CNSM of Lyon

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Anthony Halstead Anthony Halstead (born 18 June 1945 in Manchester, England) is a leading figure in the period-instruments movement. First known as a virtuoso on the natural horn, he has gradually moved into the role of conductor and has directed the Academy o ...

(horn, natural horn, piano, organ and conductor), exponent of period-instrument performance notably with the Hanover Band *

Anton Joseph Hampel Anton Joseph (A. J.) Hampel (1710 – 30 March 1771) was a horn player who is generally credited with having developed, somewhere between 1750 and 1760, the technique of hand-stopping which allows natural horns to play fully chromatically. Thi ...

, horn player of the 18th century who developed the technique of hand-stopping * Max Hess,

Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, ...

1905–25, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1925–37 * Douglas Hill *

Heinrich Hübler Carl Heinrich Hübler ( Wachwitz, near Dresden, 4 December 1822 – 14 April 1893) was the hornist in the Dresden Royal Court orchestra from 1844 until his retirement in 1891. He was appointed royal chamber musician in 1851 and 1886 was given ...

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Ifor James Professor Ifor James (30 August 1931 – 23 December 2004) was a French horn, horn player and teacher, numbering among his pupils many future Principal Horns and horn professors at British music schools. James was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, Ca ...

* Stefan de Leval Jezierski, Berlin Philharmonic *

Lin Jiang Lin Jiang is an Australian French Horn player. He was born in Shanghai in 1986 and moved to Australia at the age of five. He began playing French horn when he was ten. He has played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orches ...

, Barry Tuckwell Brass Prize winner, principal horn of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and

Australian World Orchestra Australian World Orchestra (AWO) is a symphony orchestra based in Australia. History The Australian World Orchestra was established in 2011 by Australian conductor Alexander Briger AO and his sister, film maker Gabrielle Thompson AM. The ...

. * Timothy Jones, Principal Horn, London Symphony Orchestra

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Daniel Katzen Daniel Katzen is a French horn teacher and player, and, since September 2008, has been the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Arizona's Fred Fox School of Music in Tucson. Prior to that, he was Second Horn in the Boston Symphony O ...

, former member of

, Associate Professor of Horn at the "University of Arizona School of Music" in Tucson *

Georg Kopprasch Georg Kopprasch () was a German composer and horn player primarily known for his second set of sixty horn studies (op. 6), currently used by most horn students studying at an advanced level. From a musical family, Kopprasch was the son of composer ...

, composer of the ''Kopprasch Etudes'' *

Helen Kotas Hirsch Helen Kotas Hirsch (1916December 15, 2000) was an American horn player who played principal horn in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She was the first woman wind principal musician in any major American orchestra. Early life and education Kota ...

, principal horn, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1941-1948), first female brass musician hired by Chicago Symphony Orchestra *

Peter Kurau W. Peter Kurau is the Professor of Horn and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music as well as the Principal Horn of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He currently resides in Honeoye Falls, New York, with his wife, soprano singer Pamela K ...

, principal Rochester Philharmonic and Professor of Horn at the Eastman School of Music

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Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith (Prague, 7 July 1746 – Paris, 3 October 1820) was a Bohemian horn player and versatile composer influenced by Joseph Haydn and Ignaz Pleyel. Today he is chiefly remembered because of his adaptations of operas by Wolfgang ...

, Bohemian horn player and composer of Horn concertos. *

Julie Landsman 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-pr ...

, former Principal Horn, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (1985–2010), Juilliard faculty since 1989. *

Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto (January 30, 1909 – April 13, 1991) was a Danish-born horn player. He is credited with inspiring a generation of Scandinavian horn players. He was educated in Copenhagen as a pianist, organist and horn player. During his l ...

* Joseph Leutgeb * Boštjan Lipovšek * Frank Lloyd

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* Joseph Masella, principal horn of both the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Montreal Orchestra from 1943 to 1969. * Susan McCullough, professor at

Lamont School of Music Lamont School of Music is the school of arts of the University of Denver, based in city of Denver, United States. In 1941, the school merged with the University of Denver. History Despite its separation from Denver University's main campus for m ...

. *

Brown Meggs Brown Moore Meggs (October 20, 1930October 8, 1997) was an American writer and music executive with Capitol Records. Meggs is known for signing the Beatles to their first distribution contract in the United States. He started the music magazine ...

, writer,

Capitol Records Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007) is an American record label distributed by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-based record label of note ...

executive. Wrote a solo horn variation on the Beatles melody " I Want to Hold Your Hand". *

Christian Mengis Christian Mengis (flourished c. 1745 – c. 1766) was a German composer and horn player of the late Baroque era. Life Mengis was born in Treffurt, Thuringia. His birth year is unknown. On March 1, 1745 he became a "Kammermusikus" and horn pl ...

, hornist and composer at the court of Frederick the Great from 1745. *

Ethel Merker K. Ethel Merker (1923–2012) was a prominent freelance and orchestral horn player in Chicago, who collaborated with the Frank Holton Company on the design and development of the Merker-Matic line of horns. Early life and education Kathryn Ethe ...

, prominent horn player in Chicago beginning in the 1940s, design collaborator on the Holton Merker-Matic line of horns * Philip Myers, principal, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1980–2017) *

Ricardo Matosinhos Ricardo Matosinhos (born 6 December 1982) is a Portuguese horn player and pedagogue. Biography Matosinhos was born in 1982. He studied horn with Ivan Kučera at ESPROARTE and with Bohdan Šebestik at ESMAE. In 2012 he presented his master diss ...

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Marie-Luise Neunecker Marie Luise Neunecker (born 17 July 1955) is a German horn player and professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". Professional career Neunecker was born in Erbes-Büdesheim. She studied musicology and German studies. She completed h ...

, former professor at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, former principal horn at the

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra The Bamberg Symphony (German: Bamberger Symphoniker – Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie) is a German orchestra based in Bamberg. It is one of the most prestigious orchestras in Germany. The orchestra was formed in 1946 mainly from German musicians e ...

and the

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (german: hr-Sinfonieorchester) is the radio orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk, the public broadcasting network of the German state of Hesse. From 1929 to 1950 it was named ''Frankfurter Rundfunk-Symphonie-Orchester''. F ...

. * Jeff Nelsen, horn player for

Canadian Brass The Canadian Brass is a Canadian brass quintet formed in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, by Charles Daellenbach (tuba) and Gene Watts (trombone), with horn player Graeme Page and trumpeters Stuart Laughton and Bill Phillips completing the quintet. , ...

, on faculty at Indiana University * Hermann Neuling

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Martin Owen Martin Owen (born 22 September 1973) is a British classical horn player. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He was principal horn of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) 19982008. In 2008, he was appointed principal horn of the BBC Symp ...

, principal BBC Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Horn at the

and

Trinity College of Music Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...

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Vicente Zarzo Pitarch Vicente Zarzo Pitarch (6 May 1938 – 14 September 2021) was a Spanish horn player. He played as a soloist in several European and North American orchestras. He was also the author of several books on the history and technique of the horn. Life ...

, for 25 years the horn soloist in the Residentie Orkest in the Hague *

Abel Pereira Abel José Carvalho Pereira (born 15 April 1990) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for ADC Santa Marta de Penaguião as a right-back. Club career Born in Alijó, Vila Real District, Pereira started playing with Atlético Clube Alijoense in h ...

Valery Polekh Valery Vladimirovich Polekh (5 July 1918 – 6 September 2006) was a Soviet horn player. The horn concerto Op.91 by Reinhold Glière Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purp ...

Giovanni Punto Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto (28 September 1746 in Žehušice, Bohemia – 16 February 1803 in Prague, Bohemia) was a Czech horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater ...

* William Purvis

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Eugene Rittich Eugene Rittich (15 August 1928 – June 18, 2006) was a Canadian musician who taught horn, chamber music, conducting and ensemble master classes and seminars for over 30 years in Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In ...

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Neill Sanders Neill Joseph Sanders (24 November 1923 – 19 April 1992) was a British horn player, principal horn of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and for 29 years a member of the Melos Ensemble. He was a professor at West ...

, Melos Ensemble, London Orchestras * Will Sanders, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra *

Lorenzo Sansone Lorenzo Sansone (1881–1975) was a horn player, a member of major North American symphony orchestras An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. Ther ...

, member of major North American symphony orchestras, music editor, educator, and horn manufacturer. * Gunther Schuller, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and composer *

František Šolc František Šolc (June 25, 1920 – March 11, 1996) was a Czech French hornist and horn teacher. Life He was born in Přerov on 25 June 1920. He grew up in a musical environment; his father was a music director (Kapellmeister) of the local cit ...

, Czech hornist and horn teacher *

James Sommerville James Sommerville is a Canadian orchestral hornist and conductor. He was the current principal hornist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and former Conductor and Music Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic, in Hamilton, Ontario.

* Stephen Stirling, principal horn

City of London Sinfonia City of London Sinfonia (CLS) is an English chamber orchestra based in London. CLS performs regularly across the city of London in venues from East London clubs to traditional Central London concert halls. CLS is orchestra-in-residence at Opera ...

, co-principal horn Academy of St Martin in the Fields, teaches at

, soloist, chamber musician * Franz Strauss

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Esa Tapani Esa Tapani (born 1968) is a Finnish horn player. A member of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, he served as the soloist at its recording of Magnus Lindberg Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. ...

, former principal horn

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Finnish: ''Radion sinfoniaorkesteri'', Swedish: ''Radions symfoniorkester'') is a Finnish broadcast orchestra based in Helsinki, and the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). The orchestra prima ...

James Thatcher James Thatcher may refer to: * James Thatcher (musician), American hornist * James Thatcher (MP), English politician * James W. Thatcher, American computer scientist See also * James Thacher James Thacher (February 14, 1754 – May 26, 1844 ...

, LA studio player * Michael Thompson, former principal with

Philharmonia Orchestra The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, W ...

, teacher at

, soloist/chamber musician/clinician * Barry Tuckwell, former principal horn London Symphony Orchestra, soloist and clinician *

Bedřich Tylšar Bedřich Tylšar (born 9 July 1939 in Vrahovice, Prostějov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech horn player and music pedagogue. He is the brother of hornist Zdeněk Tylšar, and a long-term member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra The Česká filha ...

, former horn player with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist and pedagogue *

Zdeněk Tylšar Zdeněk Tylšar (29 April 1945 – 18 August 2006) was a Czech horn player and music pedagogue, brother of hornist Bedřich Tylšar. He was the principal hornist and leader of the horn section with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for almost 40 yea ...

, former principal horn with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist and pedagogue

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William VerMeulen William VerMeulen is an American horn player and horn professor. He has been Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony Orchestra since 1990. He is also Professor of Horn at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas. In add ...

, principal horn of the

Houston Symphony Orchestra The Houston Symphony is an American orchestra based in Houston, Texas. The orchestra is resident at the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts. History The first concert of what was to become the Houston Symphony took place on June 21, 1 ...

, Professor of Horn at Rice University since 1990 *

Eugène Léon Vivier Eugène Léon Vivier (1821–1900) Percy A. Scholes. "Vivier, Eugène Léon" in ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music''. Oxford University Press, 1964. was a French horn player, admired by Napoleon III. Life He was born in 1821 in Ajaccio, Cors ...

, French player (1821–1900) * Radovan Vlatkovic, former principal of Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to 1990, teacher at Mozarteum in Salzburg, soloist *

Ondřej Vrabec Ondřej Vrabec (born 1979) is a Czech conductor and horn player, currently solo horn of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2022 season he will become Chief Conductor of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. Biography Vrabec studied at the P ...

, current solo horn of Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

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Richard Watkins Richard Watkins (born 1962) is a horn player. He performs as a concerto soloist and chamber music player. He was Principal Horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra from 1985 to 1996, a position he relinquished to devote more time to his solo career ...

, principal horn of

from 1985 to 1996, teaching at

, soloist, chamber musician, clinician *

Joan Thelma Watson Joan Thelma Watson (June 28, 1953 – March 12, 2015) was a Canadian french horn musician and teacher. She served as principal horn of the Canadian Opera Orchestra and was a founding member of the True North Brass quintet. Life Watson was born ...

, principal horn of the

Canadian Opera As an old form of art in a new country, opera came to Canada relatively late. Although the first composition can be traced back to the seventeenth century it was not until 150 years later that Canadian opera caught up. Canadian opera became especial ...

Orchestra and a founding member of the True North Brass quintet. * Froydis Ree Wekre, member of

Oslo Philharmonic The Oslo Philharmonic (Oslo-Filharmonien) is a Norwegian symphony orchestra based in Oslo, Norway. The orchestra traces its roots to the Philharmonic Society founded in 1847 and the Christiania Musical Association co-founded by Edvard Grieg in 18 ...

from 1961 to 1991, co-principal from 1965 on, Professor of Horn at Norwegian Academy of Music, soloist, clinician *

Kate Westbrook Kate Westbrook may refer to: *Kate Westbrook (musician) (born 1939), singer/songwriter *Kate Westbrook, pseudonym for Samantha Weinberg Samantha Weinberg is a British novelist, journalist and travel writer. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and ...

, tenor horn player * Jonathan Williams, British orchestral and solo horn player * Sarah Willis, fourth horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. *

Katy Woolley Katy Woolley is an English musician who plays the French horn. Early life and education Woolley was born in Exeter and began playing the French horn at age ten having previously played the cornet. Her early teachers include Sue Dent and Simo ...

principal horn of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Use of the horn in jazz

The horn is used only rarely in jazz, but there have been a few notable players: * Pietro Amato, member of

The Luyas The Luyas are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2006 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. History The Luyas did their first live performance in December 2006. Their first album, ''Faker Death'' came out in August 2007, and was re-released in Januar ...

, Arcade Fire,

Bell Orchestre Bell Orchestre is a six-piece instrumental band from Montreal. It was formed in 1999 by multi-instrumentalist Richard Parry and violinist Sarah Neufeld. Both also joined Arcade Fire. They were joined in Bell Orchestre by Michael Feuerstack (ste ...

and Torngat * David Amram *

John Clark John Clark may refer to: Entertainment *John Clark or Signor Brocolini (1841–1906), Irish-born American operatic singer and actor * John Clark (actor) (born 1932), English actor and theatre director *John Clark (American actor) (1933–2011), ...

Vincent Chancey Vincent Chancey (born February 4, 1950) is an American jazz hornist. Early life and education Chancey was born and raised in Chicago. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the SIUC School of Music in 1973 and studied under Julius W ...

Sharon Freeman 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. I ...

John Graas 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 ...

* Stefan de Leval Jezierski * Dave Lee * Bob Northern * Willie Ruff * Gunther Schuller *

Arkady Shilkloper Arkady Shilkloper (born 17 October 1956) is a Russian multi-instrumentalist (horn, alphorn, flugelhorn, corno da caccia, didgeridoo, shofar, and others) and composer, currently living in Berlin. He is known as one of the best jazz performers ...

* Richard Todd *

Tom Varner Tom Varner (born June 17, 1957 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States) is an American jazz horn (French horn) player and composer. Varner grew up in Millburn, New Jersey, and studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, Ne ...

* Julius Watkins

References

External links

Harlan Feinstein's List of Jazz Horn Players
{{Brass instruments Horn players