Results for "French Horn"

Nathan Koci

Nathan Koci is a composer, performer, and music director working across a variety of stylers and disciplines, from theater to dance to improvised and experimental musics. As an accordionist, he has performed and recorded with Sam Sadigursky, Guy Klucevsek, South African artist William Kentridge, Maira Kalman, the Micheal Leonhart Orchestra, and the improvising chamber quartet The Hands Free (Caroline Shaw, Eleonore Oppenheimer, James Moore). 

As a seasoned music director, he has conducted Tony-award winning shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and internationally. Credits include Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck’s Illinoise, Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown (1st National Tour), Daniel Fish’s reimagined Oklahoma! and Most Happy In Concert, and Ted Hearne’s The Source. 

Abe Mamet

Born: September 2, 1994

Lauded as D.C.’s “major jazz French horn player” by the Washington Post, and named one of 2023's "artists to watch" by DCist, Abe Mamet is a composer and instrumentalist committed to using his music to ground himself, his fellow musicians, and his audiences more deeply in the spaces they occupy daily. That commitment involves exploring the use of the French horn in groove-oriented improvised music (informed by the traditions of jazz/creative music/Black American Music), and expanding the technical and theoretical limitations of that instrument. In March 2023, Abe took part in 577 Records' "Sounds of Freedom" Residency in Canale Monterano, Italy. In 2024, Abe received the Prince George’s County Arts and Humanities Council’s Community Grant Award, which supported a major new work for septet: "levitate the heavy part," out March 2025 on LMB records.

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Mark Taylor

Born: May 22, 1961

Mark Taylor's work with Max Roach, Henry Threadgill and Muhal Richard Abrams, among many others, established his reputation as a go-to French Hornist in the jazz and improvised music communities. Putting aside the Horn for the composer’s pen, Taylor’s newest work continues the spirit that won him recognition from legendary artist MaxRoach, who said, “there is no one dealing with the music the way Mark is.”

Taylor, a native of Chattanooga, TN, has been commissioned to compose for theatre, dance, and the concert stage. He placed two songs in the Dollface Productions independent feature film "The Girl" and scored the documentaries “9/11 Fear In Silence” for JadeFilms and Camille Billops' "A String of Pearls”. He has written transcriptions of the work of seminal jazz bandleader James Reese Europe’s “Hellfighters” military band for the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble and composed a multi-movement orchestral work commissioned by Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation and premiered by the Tri-Centric Orchestra in New York City in the Fall of 2013.

Chet Chwalik

Born: May 12, 1965

Chet is Director and playing trumpet with his sextet, the Sacramento Classic Jazz Messengers, playing some of his favorites from the Art Blakey group of the mid-60's, as well as a number of original compositions. Additionally Chet plays with drummer Mat Marucci in the Classic Jazz Organ Trio, which plays the music of Jimmy Smith and others. Chet continues to work with his music business, The Tuning Note Music Studio. In addition to having over 70 students studying piano, trumpet, baritone horn, French horn, and jazz improv, Chet continues to do audio transcription/chart creation, and piano tuning.

Gary Cactus

Gacus returns to jazz on his new album.

Juan Carlos Jimenez borges

Music,latinjazz,fusion,cuba,wo rld The Cuban Music Composition man.. JuanCarlos has played at several Festival all over Europe and also in Cuba He has arranged, composed and recorded a classic music and latin jazz. In 1997 he has created a group in Stockholm named "Cuba ritmo jazz"/CubajazzJuanquy playing a blend of jazz, cuban-latin rythms, contemporary music and traditional cuban music, in which we can admire the brilliant and spontaneous improvisation. "CubaJazzJuanquy" have played on the Swedish National tv channel, composed music for a Swedish Radio Tv advertisement, Radio Sörmlands and have played in many jazz clubs in Stockholm such as Klubben Village, Fasching, Stampen, Nalen, Mosebacken, Glenn Miller Bildösound and many others all over Scandinavia. For any informations please do not hesitate to call me or write to me. Sincerely, [email protected]

Morris Kliphuis

Born: December 27, 1986

French hornist/composer/arranger Morris Kliphuis (1986) has played classical horn since the age of eight, but started to play jazz in his teens. After a year of studying composition in The Hague he enrolled at the Amsterdam Conservatory to study jazz horn with saxophonist Ferdinand Povel. In 2006 he won first prize and the press award of the Dutch Prinses Christina Jazz Concours. At the moment Morris is working with different groups. The Antiphon Trio is a chordless setting with fretless bass guitar and drums that experiments with the fusion of jazz, funk, classical, and world music, and seeks to discover the musical possibilities of this rarely seen line-up

Jeffrey Agrell

Born: February 25, 1948

Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell retired from the University of Iowa School of Music after teaching horn and creative music there 2000-2021. Before that he was Associate Principal Horn in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) 1975-2000. He has won awards as both a composer and a writer, with well over one hundred published articles to his credit and many compositions published, recorded, and performed worldwide on TV & radio, concert stages, festivals and competitions. He frequently gives concerts, lectures, and workshops nationally and internationally. He did two terms on the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society and taught at the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp 2005-2020

Alex Brofsky

Born: June 21, 1960

AB+ has performed and recorded with many of the world's finest musicians including: Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Lenny Kravitz, Quincy Jones, Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner and many others. He was one of the top artists on mp3.com throughout its history, and is now one of the top selling artists on eMusic.com. He has produced for many top Acid Jazz, Pop and R&B / Hip Hop artists with major radio airplay. Currently he is working on a new album with singer Michael Slattery. AB+ is constantly putting out new music so keep checking his pages for the latest jointz!!