Horn Music

A question came in earlier this year asking generally what are the top 3 horn concertos. With the end of the semester for my...

Last weekend I shared a recital with Dr. Deanna Swoboda, our tuba/Euphonium professor at ASU. Besides two trios (with piano) we both played two...

I don’t require any specific solos at ASU, and I found that, compared to prior years, there were a few changes. Lots of Strauss II I...

Recently I was looking at a Google stats report for Horn Matters and something jumped out at me. One horn solo in our collection...

Till is one of those essential excerpts we all learn, and it has a correct interpretation. One person who got the correct interpretation directly...

In recent years I have seen repeated references to an “exposition” of the first Strauss horn concerto. What makes it very puzzling to me...

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. After finishing with the solos in the...

In thinking about horn repertoire, and teaching it completely online for the end of this semester, my mind turned to the question of what...

In my summer practice I’ve kept coming back to the Mozart Quintet for horn and strings K407, and the more I look...

Tempo choice is always an interpretation question. At the 2019 IWBC Gail Williams performed the Hindemith Sonata on...