The Horn Call Podcast

Join us for a special bonus episode of The Horn Call Podcast on Injury Recovery with Nick Fife and Joey Johnson. Nick and Joey are both active performers and teachers in the Southeastern United States, and they have created a new column focused on injury recovery for The Horn Call.

Join us in Episode 50 for a discussion with the creative and talented Kate Warren!

Episode Highlights

• On choosing the horn and majoring in music
• Coming from a small high school band program
• Choosing a life in the arts
• Shoutout to Michelle Stebleton
• Postgraduate study at The New School and Yale University
• Shoutout to John Ericson and Horn Matters
• Website: https://www.katewarrenmusic.com/
• Instagram: katewarrenmusic
• Advice for navigating social media
• “Just good enough is ok!”
• Learning to be better at time management
• Learning to edit audio and video content
• Learning to take time off
• “Music takes time.”
• Drum Corps and playing the mellophone
• Touring with Blast!
• Improving access to music education

Our guest for Episode 49 is Dr. Monica Martinez, Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and a member of the IHS Advisory Council!

Episode Highlights

• Full circle moments
• On choosing the horn
• Playing the horn right-handed
• Growing up in South Texas
• “Change is not instant…”
• Pursuing music as a career.
• Studying with Jennifer Sholtis at Texas A&M Kingsville
• Majoring in music education and music performance
• Work ethic, persistence
• “You have to work hard for everything.”
• Studying with Patrick Hughes at the University of Texas-Austin
• Balancing a teaching job with practicing the horn
• Working for a music store
• “I never had just one job…”
• Dealing with imposter syndrome
• Building a culture in a horn studio: “It’s never about me.”
• “You have to be mindful…”
• Serving on the IHS Advisory Council

Our guest for Episode 48 is Marshall Sealy, a multi-talented artist who has performed all over the world, including the 54th International Horn Symposium as a Featured Artist.

Episode Highlights

• Starting out as a horn player
• Kinhaven Music Camp: https://kinhaven.org/
• Singing in Bach cantatas
• Touring with the Long Island Youth Orchestra
• Attending Ithaca College on both music and soccer scholarships!
• Studying with John Covert
• Studying brass instrument repair
• Meeting Julius Watkins and studying with him
• Importance of being a well rounded player
• Friendship with Jerome Ashby
• Performing in Mexico
• Performing multiple styles
• Importance of warming up, equipment
• Advice for young horn players
• Willie Ruff
• Importance of sound
• Have a really great practice mute and stop mute.
• Instrument maintenance advice

Join us for this special panel discussion on IHS Honorary Member Hermann Baumann (1934-2023). Guests include Ab Koster, Joseph Ognibene, Justin Sharp, and J. Bernardo Silva. *Above image provided by Justin Sharp, courtesy of the Baumann Family.

Join us for a special Bonus Episode, featuring Richard King and Daniel Grabois. This interview was originally published as part of Dan's Pedagogy Column in Horn and More.

My guest for Episode 46 is Bernhard Scully, Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign!

Episode Highlights

• Isla Verde Bronces International Brass Festival in Argentina
• Music is subjective!
• Studying with Kendall Betts in high school
• It’s all about fundamentals.
• Studying at Northwestern University: Dale Clevenger, Roland Pandolfi, Gail Williams
• Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method
• Performing with the Minnesota Orchestra
• Graduate School at UW-Madison, studying with Douglas Hill
• Performing with the Canadian Brass
• Advice for students on keeping your playing in shape.
• “You really don’t have time to practice on the road.”
• Transcendental Meditation
• “Try to live as healthy as you can.”
• Aging
• Value of improvisation
• Collaborating on a book: Consilience - Learning About Ourselves by Applying Indigenous Traditions to Western Music and Technology
• Join the International Horn Society!

Episode 45 of The Horn Call Podcast features Tommi Hyytinen, a member of the Finnish Radio Orchestra and horn and natural horn faculty at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

Episode Highlights

• Starting out on the horn
• Finnish horn playing tradition
• Attending the Sibelius Academy
• The path from student to professional
• Balancing school and professional work
• Musical inspirations, legacy of Holger Fransman
• Studying with Radovan Vlatkovic
• Audition process in Finland
• Instruments used in horn sections in Finnish orchestras
• The “Finnish Horn Sound”
• Chamber music work
• Golden Horns Quartet, performing on television in Helsinki
• Pop music influences
• Playing from the Core book
• Work with Pilates
• Breathing misconceptions
• Lieksa Brass Week

Join us in Episode 44 for a discussion with Michelle Stebleton, Professor of Horn at Florida State University and a member of the IHS Advisory Council!

Episode Highlights

• Starting out as a horn player
• Attending Interlochen Arts Academy, studying at University of Michigan with Louis Stout and Lowell Greer
• Musical inspirations
• Performing in the Midland-Odessa Symphony
• Path to teaching, path to FSU
• “If you want to play well, playing has to be your hobby.”
• Playing in lessons, teaching techniques
• “I teach macro to micro.”
• Teaching tone “Stebletones”
• Sighing through the horn
• Involvement with the International Horn Society
• Editing the “Teacher Talk” column in The Horn Call

Our next guest on The Horn Call Podcast is James Hampson, of Hampson Horns!

Episode Highlights

• Deciding to change majors from engineering to music
• Mozart operas and becoming fascinated with the natural horn
• Remembering Lowell Greer
• Studying with Marc Guy at SUNY-Fredonia
• Dick Martz Collection: https://www.rjmartz.com/horns/
• Moving Hampson Horns from Ohio to New York
• Douglas Lundeen and Rutgers University
• Early Music scene in Boston, studying at Boston University
• Shout out to Paul Austin!
• Brass Witch: https://www.brasswitch.com/
• Mouthpiece consulting, Alpine Mouthpieces: https://www.alpinemouthpieces.com/
• On mouthpieces: “Our bodies change.” And “One mouthpiece isn’t going to fix everyone’s problems.”
• Take care of your instrument.