John Ericson

For many years there have been two dominant “flavors” of double horn, Kruspe and Geyer style, in use in the United States. The question...

As I have been preparing for my session at the IHS symposium that involves performing on a vintage piston valve horn, I have been...

A massive new biography of the great British horn virtuoso Dennis Brain was just published this month by UNT press, Dennis Brain: A Life...

Back in 2009 I noted that Jeffrey Agrell had out a new publication, Improv Games for One Player. This year at the Midsouth Workshop...

Besides performing, a lot of advanced horn students have dreams of teaching the horn full time at the college level. In The Musician’s Way...

Among a growing library of publications from Mountain Peak Music are a pair of books - Daily Routines for Horn and Daily Routines for the...

At the upcoming international horn symposium I will be presenting a session titled “A Horn like Dennis Brain Played.” On it I will be...

FECHOPS -- Iron Chops -- that was on the license plate of Calvin Smith. It is with sadness we at Horn Matters report his...

By design I have not quoted much in this series from recent publications. I am a firm believer in actually reading books and especially...

Etude practice has long been a standard way to train and cross-train horn technique. The thing to think about though is the topic of...