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Congratulations Nathan Stark!
With the passing of Professor David A. Wells, ASU horn DMA student (ABD) Nathan Stark will serve as interim director of the Keith Stein Blue Thunder Band at Boise State University for the 2009-10 school year. Congratulations to Nathan on this great opportunity. Also Nathan passed the defense of his Doctoral research project; he will walk at the end of the fall semester and gain the title of Dr. Nathan Stark. Congratulations!

Graduate Teaching Assistant position open for Fall, 2010 at ASU
In the Fall of 2010 there will be an opening for a new graduate teaching assistant in the horn studio at ASU. Duties would include assisting with the horn studio including teaching non-majors an also teaching the horn portion of the horn methods class. For more information on this be in touch directly with Dr. Ericson. The position is open to MM and DMA students.

Fall Semester Underway!
The fall semester started with a bang at Arizona State with a musical salute by the ASU Symphony Orchestra to the four B's of music, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruckner, with the concert closing with the Finale to the Bruckner Fourth Symphony. Later this semester they will perform the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony and other master works. We welcomed four new horn students to the studio from Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri.

ASU Mellophones Rule
The Arizona State University Sun Devil marching band is the largest ever fielded in Arizona, with nearly 400 members and a line of 22 mellophones. Great to see middle brass playing alive and well in Arizona! Only two members of the section are horn majors.

Ericson in Recital in October.
Dr. Ericson presented his annual faculty recital on Sunday, October 25, featuring Alla Caccia by Alan Abbott, the Rosetti Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, the Neuling Bagatelle, the Song Suite in Jazz Sytle by Douglas Hill, and the classic jazz tune Misty performed on Mellophonium.

New Horn Website Launched
For several years Arizona has dominated the horn blogosphere, with the well known blogs of John Ericson (Horn Notes Blog) and Bruce Hembd (Horndog Blog). This fall they took their individual blogs to the next level with the launch of Horn Matters, an online resource with a focus on French horn and brass related topics and on the business of performing classical music.

The site went llive on September 1 at www.hornmatters.com. The combined site has more than 800 posts to browse through on all sorts of horn related topics from the serious to the educational to the entertaining. The new design especially opens up the older content in both sites to view; it is a truly unique and valuable horn resource.

Congratulations DeAnna and Felipe
Recent ASU horn studio graduate DeAnna Uranga won the audition for fourth horn in the Symphony of the Southwest, and Felipe Vera won for a second time the fourth horn position in the Amarillo Symphony. Congratulations!

Summer Recap
The summer has seen Dr. Ericson and the horn studio head in all possible directions. For Dr. Ericson the big event was the 41st International Horn Symposium, held in Macomb, IL in June, 2009. Dr. Ericson gave a presentation on the topic “Instruments Your Teacher Never Told You About ” which featured the single F, single Bb, natural, descant, and triple horns, bass and tenor Wagner tubas, the alto/tenor horn, and the mellophone, performed in several large horn ensemble works on horn and Wagner tuba, performed the Telemann Concerto on descant horn, and took an immense career risk and performed Misty on the Mellophonium at the banquet.

Updated 10/27/2009

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