List of horn players
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This list of horn players includes horn (French horn) players on whom there is a Wikipedia article.
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- Thomas Bacon (soloist)
- Georges Barboteu
- John Barrows
- Hermann Baumann (Natural horn and Horn performer)
- Paul Basler (Horn player, horn professor at University of Florida, and composer)
- Kendall Betts (Minnesota Orchestra)
- Richard Bissill
- Alfred Brain (Uncle of Dennis Brain)
- Aubrey Brain (Father of Dennis Brain)
- Dennis Brain (principal horn in both Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, soloist)
- Vitali Buyanovsky
- Domenico Ceccarossi
- John Cerminaro ( principal New York Philharmonic(1969-79), principal Seattle Symphony1996-present)
- James Chambers (New York Philharmonic)
- Chi-chung Chow (Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Alan Civil (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
- Dale Clevenger (principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1966-present)
- Lisa Conway (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
- David Cripps (London Symphony Orchestra)
- Peter Damm
- Louis-François Dauprat
- Vincent DeRosa (LA studio player)
- Stefan Dohr
- Marjorie Dunn
- Pip Eastop (Professor of Horn at Royal Academy of Music in London)
- Jonathan Eddie (The Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, The English Chambera Orchestra, The Orchestra or The English National Opera)
- John Entwistle
- Eli Epstein
- Philip Farkas (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 1960-82)
- J.D. Shaw (Boston Brass)
- Gottfried Freiberg
- Jacques-Françoise Gallay
- Lowell Greer (Natural horn performer)
- Anthony Halstead
- Douglas Hill (horn professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1974)
- Michael Holtzel
- Anton Horner
- Wendell Hoss
- Gregory Hustis (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
- Ifor James
- David Jolley
- Mason Jones (Philadelphia Orchestra)
- Daniel Katzen (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
- Bryan Kennedy (Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
- Richard King
- David Krehbiel (principal San Francisco Symphony, retired)
- Julie Landsman (principal, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 1985-present)
- Andrew Lane
- Joseph Ignaz Leutgeb (pronounced Leitgeb in Viennese dialect)
- Ib Lanzky-Otto
- Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto
- Frank Lloyd (soloist)
- John MacDonald
- Philip Myers (principal, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1980-present)
- Marie-Luise Neunecker
- David Ohanian (Canadian Brass)
- Erich Penzel
- Hans Pizka
- Valery Polekh
- Giovanni Punto
- David Pyatt (London Symphony Orchestra)
- Eugene Rittich
- Eric Ruske
- Gunther Schuller (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra), (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), and composer
- Bernhard Scully (Canadian Brass)
- Richard "Gus" Sebring (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
- James Sommerville (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
- Skip Snead (Transatlantic horn quartet, horn professor, University of Alabama)
- Franz Strauss
- James Thatcher (LA studio player)
- Lucien Thévet
- Michael Thompson
- Rick Todd
- Barry Tuckwell (London Symphony Orchestra)
- Adam Unsworth (Philadelphia Orchestra)
- William Vermeulen (Houston Symphony Orchestra)
- Radovan Vlatkovic
- Richard Watkins
- Froydis Ree Wekre
- Gail Williams (associate principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1984-98, horn professor Northwestern University, 1989-present)
- Chris Castellanos (Dallas Brass)
[edit] Use of the horn in jazz
The horn is used only rarely in jazz, but there have been a few notable players (see also [1]):
- Arkady Shilkloper
- John Graas
- Pietro Amato (Arcade Fire)
- David Amram
- Rick Todd
- John Clark
- Vincent Chancey
- James MacDonald
- Bobby Routch
- Gunther Schuller
- Tom Varner
- Julius Watkins
- Adam Unsworth
- Willie Ruff
- Jeff Snedeker
- Dave Lee
- Jim Rattigan
- Alex Brofsky
- Mark Taylor
- Bill Hoyt
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