List of horn players

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This list of horn players includes horn (French horn) players about whom there is a Wikipedia article.

• Pietro Amato, member of The Luyas, Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre and Torngat
• Hermann Baumann (musician) (former principal horn with Dortmund Radio Orchestra and Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, winner of International Music Competition in 1964, currently soloist, performing on natural horn and valved horn)
• Richard Bissill
• Aubrey Brain (Father of Dennis Brain)
• Dennis Brain (principal horn in both Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, soloist)
• Arthur C. Brooks
• John Cerminaro ( principal New York Philharmonic(1969–79), principal Seattle Symphony 1996–present)
• Alan Civil (second horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (to Dennis Brain), later principal of the Royal Philharmonic. In 1955, joined the Philharmonia, and in 1957 became principal horn, after the death of Dennis Brain. Principal of BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1966–88)
• Dale Clevenger (principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1966–present)
• Geoff Collinson (Principal horn, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra)
• David Cripps (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Peter Damm
• Vincent DeRosa (LA studio player)
• Simon de Souza (Professor of Horn at the Birmingham Conservatoire)
• Stefan Dohr (Principal horn, Berlin Philharmonic)
• Pip Eastop (Professor of Horn at Royal Academy of Music in London)
• John Entwistle of The Who
• 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)
• Randy Gardner (Professor of Horn at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and former 2nd Horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Author of Mastering the Horn's Low Register)
• Anthony Halstead
• Anton Joseph Hampel (horn player of th 18th century who developed the technique of hand-stopping)
• Bruce Henniss (Professor of horn at the Ohio State University)
• Max Hess (Boston Symphony Orchestra 1905–25, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1925–37)
• Douglas Hill
• Heinrich Hübler
• Ifor James
• Lin Jiang (Barry Tuckwell Brass Prize winner)
• David Jolley
• Daniel Katzen (former member of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Associate Professor of Horn at the "University of Arizona School of Music" in Tucson)
• Georg Kopprasch, composer of the famous Kopprasch etudes.
• Peter Kurau principal, Rochester Philharmonic and professor of horn at the Eastman School of Music
• Joseph Leutgeb (pronounced Leitgeb in Viennese dialect)
• Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto
• Boštjan Lipovšek
• Frank Lloyd
• John MacDonald
• Philip Myers (principal, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1980–present)
• Jeff Nelsen (horn player for Canadian Brass, now on faculty at Indiana University)
• David Ohanian (former horn player for the Canadian Brass)
• Hermann Neuling
• Martin Owen (principal, BBC Symphony Orchestra, professor of horn at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music)
• Valery Polekh
• Giovanni Punto
• William Purvis
• David Pyatt (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Eugene Rittich
• Will Sanders (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Gunther Schuller (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra), (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), and composer
• James Sommerville (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
• Franz Strauss
• Esa Tapani (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• James Thatcher (LA studio player)
• Michael Thompson (former principal with Philharmonia, currently teaches at Royal Academy of Music and is in-demand as a soloist/chamber musician/clinician)
• Barry Tuckwell (former principal horn, London Symphony Orchestra, soloist and clinician, now retired from playing)
• Adam Unsworth (professor of horn at the University of Michigan, former member of Philadelphia Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, jazz composer and hornist)
• Radovan Vlatkovic (former principal of Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982–1990, currently teaches at Mozarteum in Salzburg, and is a soloist)
• Richard Watkins (principal horn of Philharmonia from 1985–1996, currently teaching at Royal Academy of Music and is a traveling soloist/chamber musician/clinician)
• Froydis Ree Wekre (member of Oslo Philharmonic from 1961–1991, co-principal from 1965 on, currently professor of horn at Norwegian State Academy of Music, and traveling soloist/clinician)
• Mark Harding (15 years old soloist, also member of the Halle youth orchestra co-principal from 2008.)

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]):

• Pietro Amato (Arcade Fire)
• David Amram
• John Clark
• Vincent Chancey
• John Graas
• Dave Lee
• Jim Rattigan
• Willie Ruff
• Arkady Shilkloper (articles in German and Russian Wikipedias)
• Gunther Schuller
• Adam Unsworth
• Tom Varner
• Julius Watkins