Video: Reicha Trios, Horn, Bass Trombone, Tuba

Recent summers I have been privileged to serve on the faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp and also the Brevard Music Center. If you are thinking about summer study, I really value it, as I outline here: Summer Festival Study (and Summer Study in General) As I note in that short article, “a serious horn [...]

One goal this semester is to use repertoire as not only a broad overview of history but also to look at performance of literature that is encountered often by high level performers but is not often studied prior to a student arriving at this course. Thus, this week our focus is on works that are [...]

About five days ago the index finger on my left hand became extremely irritated. Over the course of a few days this irritation swelled to dramatic proportions and over the weekend, I was incapable of using that finger during practice sessions. I have absolutely no idea how this happened, other than having done some front-yard [...]

This question was so beautifully written that I will leave it exactly as it came in: Hi there! I’m a Junior in high school, and I’m the first horn at my school. When I hear movie soundtracks, I get the chills from all the exemplary horn parts. It would be so cool to be involved [...]

This week we get into the first of several readings that were initially posted last year specifically for the repertoire course at ASU. My overview of the horn before 1750 (the very first article in the University of Horn Matters Series) may be accessed here: The Horn Before 1750 A work that will a focus [...]

One topic that comes up occasionally talking to other hornists is that of slide inserts on the horn. Slide inserts are made from cut off bits of slide tubing, such as seen here. What you do is take the inserts and put them inside the slides to the point that the slide is pulled out [...]