The Horn Festival for the 2006-2007 School year was held in October 2006, and the featured
Guest Hornist was Thomas Jöstlein, winner of the 2003 American Horn Competition.
Consequently, the focus of this Festival was on competition and audition preparation. Our
students were very inspired by the recital, master class and lessons of Thomas Jöstlein, and due
to his inspiration, four hornists from ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½app participated in the
International Horn Competition
of America during the summer of 2007.
These four hornists, (John Reem, Amber Dean, Robert Palmer, and Colin Brien), built on those experiences, and were winners in the annual Concerto
Competition at ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½app Illinois University in November of 2007. Then, as Concerto
Competition winners, this quartet performed Robert Schumann’s
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with the ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½app
Symphony Orchestra during the next Spring Semester. John Reem—who was also a separate
winner—also performed the Concertino of Lars Erik Larsson with the ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½app Symphony
Orchestra. Needless to say, the Guest Artist certainly is also well informed on the topic of
auditions! Subsequent to his presentations at this Festival, he went on to win auditions for
professional positions with the New York Philharmonic, the School of Music at The University
of Illinois, and The St. Louis Symphony!
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