Studio Recital: Horn Students of Jeffrey Lang and Jennifer Montone
Enjoy a majestic Shakespearean fanfare; sprightly duets from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and one of his successors, Otto Nicolai; and excerpts from J. S. Bach’s monumental Cello Suites arranged for solo horn.
The recital continues with the achingly beautiful Horn Trio in E-flat major by Johannes Brahms, written just after the death of Brahms’s mother. The full horn studio unites for a bombastic finale from Richard Strauss’s Heldenleben. Strauss gleefully admitted that the piece “does have lots of horns, horns being quite the thing to express heroism.” We think you’ll agree!
Program (subject to change)
| STEPHEN GRYC | Fanfare: Dawn in the Arden, from As You Like It |
| Jack Bryant, horn | |
| Hannah Culbreth, horn | |
| Kenshi Miyatani, horn | |
| Christine Ott, horn | |
| Martina Smith, horn | |
| Andrew Stump, horn | |
| JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH | Selections, Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 |
| Kenshi Miyatani, horn | |
| WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART | Selections, from Twelve Duos, K. 487 |
| Hannah Culbreth, horn | |
| Jennifer Montone, horn | |
| ALEXANDER BORODIN | Trio in G minor |
| Martina Smith, horn | |
| Joseph Kauffman, violin | |
| Elena Kauffman, cello | |
| OTTO NICOLAI | Allegro, from Duet No. 4 |
| Jack Bryant, horn | |
| Chelsea McFarland, horn | |
| JOHANNES BRAHMS | Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40 |
| Christine Ott, horn | |
| Andrew Stump, horn | |
| Alexandria Ott, violin | |
| Andrew Stump, violin | |
| Michelle Cann, piano | |
| RICHARD STRAUSS | “The Hero at Battle,” from Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Op. 40 |
| Jack Bryant, horn | |
| Hannah Culbreth, horn | |
| Kenshi Miyatani, horn | |
| Christine Ott, horn | |
| Martina Smith, horn | |
| Andrew Stump, horn | |
Meet Our Faculty
Jeffrey Lang is the associate principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as a frequent soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012 and also serves on the faculties of Bard College and Temple University.
Jennifer Montone is the principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed concertos with the Saint Louis, Dallas, and National symphony orchestras; and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among others; and has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She joined the Curtis faculty in 2007.
