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Roland Pandolfi Joins Horn Faculty, But he Joined Oberlin's Family When he Married Into the Mattson Clan
Roland
Pandolfi, principal horn player with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
since 1966, is joining Oberlin's faculty as professor of horn, effective
July 1, 2001.
He has, however, been a member of the Oberlin family since his marriage to Sara Mattson Pandolfi '60. And the number of Mattson family members to attend Oberlin could fill a chamber ensemble. "Sara's four siblings, three cousins, an aunt and an uncle, and a grandfather all attended Oberlin," says Pandolfi.
It's probably about time he got with the program.
"Roland Pandolfi brings to Oberlin a great performing and teaching legacy," says Dean Dodson. "We are delighted to welcome him to our faculty."
Pandolfi is retiring from the St. Louis Symphony at the end of the current season. He has appeared as soloist with them in performances of Mozart's 2nd, 3rd, and 4th horn concertos; Richard Strauss's Concerto No. 1; Bernhard Heiden's Concerto for Horn; Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings; and Schumann's Concertstucke. Teaming with Barry Tuckwell, he performed Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Horns; and, with Herman Bauman, the Concerto for Two Horns by Haydn.
Besides dozens of recordings with the St. Louis Symphony, Pandolfi's discography includes Saint-Saens's Morceau de Concert with the Banff Camerata for Summit Records; and, for VOX: the Moss Music Group, Mozart's Quintet for Horn and Strings and Quintet for Piano and Winds; and Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Winds.
From 1962 until 1966 he was principal horn with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Pandolfi has served on the faculties of Webster University, Northwestern University, the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and Southern Illinois University. He has taught master classes and performed at workshops sponsored by the International Horn Society, and, for the Southeast Horn Workshop in 1994, Barry Tuckwell joined with him for a workshop on Beethoven's Sextet in E-flat Major. He taught and performed at the Banff Arts Festival at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada for 14 seasons. He also taught and performed at the Affinis Seminar in Iida, Japan and at the Orford Festival in Quebec, Canada.
He attended the New England Conservatory of Music and has studied privately with Arnold Jacobs.
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