Horn players at Lamont study with some of the most prominent performers, conductors, educators and scholars, including a brass faculty with over six decades of combined experience. David Byrd-Marrow, one of the most dynamic horn players in the industry, leads the horn studio. He also serves as the solo horn of the New York-based International Contemporary Ensemble and frequently appears with the Ojai Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center and as faculty at the Banff Music Centre.
The horn studio also takes full advantage of the multi-genre ensembles housed in the state-of-the-art Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Whether it’s a brass quintet, orchestra, wind ensemble, opera orchestra or a student-led group, our horn players never complain of not performing enough.
Audition Repertoire Requirements
Undergraduate (BM, BA and Minor)
- First movement of any Mozart concerto, or first movement of R. Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1
- Two contrasting etudes
- Orchestral excerpts:
- R. Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel - opening only
- Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 - low horn tutti
- Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5 - mvmt. 2 solo
- Wagner - Götterdämmerung - short call
- Major and minor scales
- Sight-reading
Graduate (MM and certificate in performance)
- Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 (mvmt. 1 only, with cadenza)
- Modern solo, written after 1982
- Orchestral excerpts:
- Beethoven, Symphony No. 7, mvmt. 1, mm. 84–102 & m. 421–end
- Brahms, Symphony No. 1 (2nd and 4th mvmts.)
- Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 (low tutti)
- R. Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, opening
- Sight-reading
Review requirements for Artist Diploma
Review requirements for Certificate in Orchestral Studies
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David Byrd-Marrow.
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Horn students performing with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra.
