John Ericson

Horns Seen at the International Horn Competition of America

While family commitments have made it so that I have not been able to attend recent editions of the International Horn Competition of America, I was...

The Single F Horn Dare, a challenge to horn teachers

We need more horn players in the schools. I would offer readers a challenge in two parts. The first part is a general challenge to...

Frøydis on Breaking the Rules of Horn Playing

I recently noted an interesting online article from Frøydis Ree Wekre on the rules of horn playing. Basically she says in “Never Say Never...

Review: The Buzzing Book, and What Does a Warm-up Look Like?

For a lot of horn players it looks something like the Farkas warm-up. But it is interesting; you can see that some writers of...

Before Farkas: Birchard Coar

I recently updated my list of horn pedagogy resources in my studio site. It is not a comprehensive list but reflects what I think...

A Wrap-up of the 1989 SWRHW

The last session that I have a video of in the archive of the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop is the master class with...

Natural Horn at the 1989 SWRHW

The fourth of five archive videos I just converted to DVD from the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop is of the session by Kristin...

Sessions with Saxton and Sellers at the 1989 SWRHW

The next two sessions that I have VHS tapes of from the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop are by Earl Saxton and Jacquelyn Sellers....

A Master Class with Philip Farkas at the 1989 SWRHW

One of the guest artists at the 1989 Southwest Regional Horn Workshop was Philip Farkas. Among the studio materials I inherited from then ASU...

Break the “Rules” of Horn Playing

One thread between several of the recent posts is that in various ways the quotes point to spoken or unspoken “rules” of horn playing...