James Thatcher
James Thatcher began his professional career at the age of 16 when he played and studied in Mexico City with his uncle,
Gerald Thatcher, former principal hornist with the National Symphony of
Mexico. Subsequent instructors have included Fred Fox, Don
Peterson, Wendell Hoss, James Decker, Vincent DeRosa and master classes with
Today, he is principal horn of the Pasadena Symphony and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera but principally he is a studio player, a recipient of the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences and "arguably the most often heard horn player in the world" due to his performances on some 70 to 80 films per year for the last 15 years.
Jim has the enviable position of being the favored first horn of multiple Oscar winning composer John Williams performing in such films as Always,
Jurassic Park, The Lost
World, Sleepers (in which he received an on-screen credit),
Nixon, Schindler's List,
JFK, Sabrina, Home Alone, Rosewood, Seven Years in Tibet and
Thatcher has joined Kristy Morrell on the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music as the co-professor of Horn.
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