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Welcome!
After a great fall for the ASU horn studio we enter the spring semester with a focus being a number of student recitals. They are:

• Christine Pelletier, MM recital, 2/5/12, 2:30, Katzin Concert Hall
• Christina Romano, MM recital, 2/19/12, 5:00, Katzin Concert Hall
• Stacey DeGarmo and Robert Aguilar, joint Senior recital, 2/24/12, 5:00, Katzin Concert Hall
• Nicole Deuvall, Junior rectial, 2/28/12, 7:30, Katzin Concert Hall
• Maria Huber, Senior recital, 4/10/12, 5:00, Katzin Concert Hall

Study Horn at ASU
While application deadlines have passed for admission to the ASU School of Music for the fall of 2012, it is never too early to think ahead to next year. Most years we have an opening for a new Teaching Assistant in the horn studio (duties include assisting with the horn portion of the brass lab course and assisting with teaching the horn studio) and we have solid scholarship support available for students who plan to study the horn in any of our degree programs. Audition requirements are here.

Study with Dr. Ericson at Interlochen
Dr. Ericson will return to serve on the summer faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp again this summer. The premiere program for junior high and high school hornists serious about the horn, it is a program to consider! His faculty bio at Interlochen may be found here, with links there to further information.

The Southwest Horn Conference
The 2012 Southwest Horn Conference was held January 13-15, 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona on the campus of Paradise Valley Community College, hosted by ASU MM and DMA graduate Dr. Rose French. The featured artists were the great Swiss hornist Bruno Schneider, J.D. Shaw of the University of New Mexico, and Dr. Ericson. The ASU horn studio performed works of LoPresti, Brahms, and Broughton. Dr. Ericson performed in recital works of Schumann and Franz Strauss and on the Saturday night concert performed as a soloist on the Schumann Konzerstuck with an all-star ensemble from the southwest. This has been posted to YouTube by an audience member and is well worth a look, with more information here. It was a great event! Hopefully one to be repeated at some point in the not too distant future again in Arizona.

Featured Graduate: Gustavo Camacho, Instructor of horn, Interlochen
2011 ASU DMA graduate Gustavo Camacho is now into his second full year as faculty at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, the most prominent arts boarding high school in the world. His full bio is here, with Gustavo being a former Graduate Teaching Assistant in the ASU horn studio where he also earned his MM. Information on the horn studio at Interlochen may be found here, including a great video performance of a performance of Jurassic Park; very worth checking out! Students from his studio last year at Interlochen were accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University. His Doctoral project at ASU was completed in the fall of 2011: congratulations Dr. Camacho!

A Brief note on Ensembles and Trombone News!
Ensembles are as busy as ever within our system of ensemble projects. A musical highlight of the fall was Church Windows by Resphigi, a great orchestral work. A special treat in the preparation of this work was that Douglas Yeo, bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony, was able to coach the brass section on this work during a visit to ASU. He will join the ASU brass faculty as Trombone Professor in the fall of 2012; the formal announcement is here, and be sure to check his great website for more information.

Ericson in Recital, Fall 2011
Dr. Ericson presented his annual faculty recital at the Musical Instrument Museum on September 28 at 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM. Last year his single recital at the same location was presented to a capacity audience; this year the focus of this "double bill" was performing on a variety of instruments of the "middle brass," including horn, Wagner tuba, and althorn. While packed with visual variety, the program opened with horn, which remains the thrust of his playing!

ASU Mellophones Rule
In 2009 the Arizona State University Sun Devil marching band was the largest in Arizona, with nearly 400 members and a line of 22 mellophones. In 2010 however we smashed this record number with a line of 35 mellophones and we have smashed it again in 2011 with a line of 42 mellos! It is great to see middle brass playing is alive and well!

New Books Out!
Horn studio members have known that Dr. Ericson has been working on two two new publications for several years. They were released in the spring of 2011, a technique book and a low range book, through Horn Notes Edition.

Dr. Ericson was on the Road in 2011...
Dr. Ericson was a featured artist at the Southeast Horn Workshop, March 4-6, 2011 on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He also appeared at the MidSouth Horn Workshop, April 1-3, 2011 on the campus of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, presented a session and performed at IHS 2011 in San Francisco, and he taught the first three weeks of the summer session at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Whew! For his schedule for the spring see here.

Updated 1/20/2012

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