Brass, Brum & Besties – Onyx Brass live from Birmingham
One of the greatest British brass quintets of today, Onyx Brass, were Sarah´s guests on this Horn Hangout live from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. We talked about the secrets of a great brass quintet and also held a mini masterclass with Eastside Brass, a student quintet from Birmingham.
Category: Horn Hangout
Tim Jones, Sarah Willis and Wolfgang Amadeus!
This Horn Hangout was all about the Mozart horn concertos – we horn players are so lucky to have them in our repertoire and a lovely afternoon was spent in the Philharmonie in Berlin drinking tea and discussing all of your questions. Big thanks to Julie Landsman and Jen Montone for joining in the live chat with their tips and answers – you can see everyone’s comments here in the chat and you can add your own too. Any Mozart tips very much appreciated!
Berlin, September 9th, 2019
Philip Cobb – Brisbane, Brass Bands and Baseball Caps
Phil Cobb, principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra and star of the brass band world, talks about his life, the trumpet, brass bands and baseball caps. Live from the Queensland Conservatoruim of Music´s High Brass Weekend, where Phil and Sarah were the featured artists, a great time was had by all – both in the room and online, as you can see from the live chat! July 20th, 2019
Power, Passion and Potica
Andrej Žust, horn player in the Berlin Philharmonic, celebrates life, horn and Slovenia on the Horn Hangouts!April 1st is also a great day for a Horn Hangout so expect some surprises…
Thanks to our Gregor Jagodic from the Slovenian Embassy in Berlin for being our special guest and supplying all the Slovenia decorations and the potica.
Thanks to Bostjan Lipovsek and Brina Zust for the photos and videos! And to Jakob and George for the opening clip…
Berlin, April 1st 2019
Joe Alessi – The Valentine´s Day Horn Hangout
Live from the New York Phil Archives, February 14th, 2019
With special Valentine´s guest Jörgen van Rijen
Erik Ralske – All About Opera
live from the Juilliard School Feb 11th,2019 with the Juilliard Horns performing excerpts from the world of opera for our very first Horn Hangout Opera Quiz!
In case you want to know what the answers were: (SPOILER ALERT!)
1) Pagliacci – Opening Prologue
2) I Puritani – Prelude
3) Carmen – Michaela´s Aria
4) Tales of Hoffmann – Epilogue
5) Die Meistersinger – Prelude to Act 3
6) Tosca- Opening Act 3
7) Don Carlo – Opening Act 2
8) Lucian di Lammermoor
9) Fidelio – Aria Act 1
10) Götterdämmerung – Sonnenaufgang Act 2
Jen Montone – Toolbox, Tone and Teaching
Featuring the Curtis Horns
Recorded live at the Curtis Institute of Music on Feb.10th, 2019
Live from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Sept.22nd, 2018
What a place to hold a live Horn Hangout! Thanks to Nigel Carter and Miriam Merino for the wonderful weekend of horn here on this beautiful island, it was great to do the Hangout with Eric, of course, but also fantastic were all the extras which these two organised for everyone, right up to the fabulous party on the beach at sundown…when can we do the next horn event in Mallorca?
Thanks to all of you who took part, I’m so happy that we have Eric´s warm up as part of our ever-growing Horn Hangout archive. Enjoy!
Boston Symphony Horns Berlin September 2017
A Boston Tea Party in Berlin! Starring (from left to right) Gus Sebring, Jason Snider, Michael Winter, Rachel Childers, Jonathan Menkis and Jamie Sommerville
Such a pleasure to welcome the Boston Symphony horn section to the Horn Hangouts! The BSO were on a European tour with their chief conductor Andris Nelsons and were in Berlin to perform Mahler 3. A great opportunity for me to meet them all and find out all about them. So many people joined in with great questions from all over the world, if you missed it live, do watch it here, let us know what you think!
Chris Martin, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, live from the NY Philharmonic Archives in New York.
With special thanks to Barbara Hawes and her Archive team for allowing us to use this wonderful space for the Horn Hangout!
Feb. 9th, 2018
