Daniel Katzen

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Daniel Katzen (born June 5, 1952) is a French horn player, and member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) since 1979. He is a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras in Boston and elsewhere, and has appeared on numerous recordings with the BSO, the Boston Pops, and the Empire Brass, among others. He has taught horn at Boston University and the New England Conservatory since 1981, and at CalArts and the University of California, Irvine since 2000. He has performed and records with various Los Angeles orchestras and film studios. Among the films in which he has played are Schindler's List and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Previously Katzen held the positions of fourth horn with the San Diego Symphony, and second horn with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago and the Phoenix Symphony. He also has played with the Chicago Symphony and various orchestras in Europe and Israel.

In addition to his teaching and performing, he is known for what the Boston Globe referred to as the "legend of Daniel Katzen, the horn player who auditioned 48 times before finally landing a spot with the BSO in 1979." [1]

He holds a B.M. with distinction from Indiana University, where he was a student of Philip Farkas and Michael Höltzel and a M.M. from Northwestern University, where he studied with Dale Clevenger. He also studied under Milan Yancich and Morris Secon at the Eastman School of Music.

Katzen was born in Rochester, New York, and is the brother of cookbook writer Mollie Katzen, high-tech lawyer Ezra Katzen and real estate developer/conservative commentator Josh Katzen.