Program Overview
Horn
Study in our horn program is both intense and stimulating. Our individualized instruction, private lessons, master classes, and performance opportunities support the development of technique and musicianship.
The Horn section of a performance by the Oberlin Orchestra.
Photo credit: Dale Preston ’83
Program Facts
- Program Type: Major, Minor
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- Bachelor of Music (BM)
- Division: Winds, Brass, and Percussion
Division Director
Alexa Still,
Professor of Flute
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Performance Opportunities
Oberlin sponsors approximately 500 concerts on campus each year, including recitals and concerts by the more than 25 student ensembles. From jazz to contemporary guitar, classical to popular, computer-generated to acoustic, and from time-tested compositions to newer works, the college and conservatory present performances to satisfy any musical interest. At the Oberlin Conservatory, you will play in ensembles of all types and sizes, beginning with your first semester on campus.
More about performance ensemblesHorn Faculty
Jeff Scott is the French hornist of the Oberlin-founded ensemble Imani Winds, a position that has brought him to Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, and countless other prominent stages—as well as the stage of Finney Chapel for an Artist Recital Series performance in 2014. With Imani Winds, he leads master classes with hundreds of students every year. Scott has been a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem since 1995, and he has performed numerous times with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis.
Horn News
David Byrd-Marrow Appointed Horn Faculty at Oberlin Conservatory
February 7, 2024
Versatile American horn player David Byrd-Marrow has been appointed to the tenure-track horn professor position at Oberlin Conservatory. He brings an expansive range of experience and repertoire to the role.
Seraph Brass Brings Music with a Mission to Oberlin’s Finney Chapel Stage
October 3, 2023
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet soloist and founder of Seraph Brass , realized at an early age that she wanted to pursue music as a career. In 2014, she moved forward with a long-standing goal of forming an all-female brass quintet, and Seraph Brass was born.
Oberlin Ensembles Perform for United Nations at Carnegie Hall
November 10, 2022
December 2 concert before U.N. General Assembly celebrates new partnership; public preview in Oberlin slated for November 29.
