List of horn players

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Thomas Bacon (former principal horn with Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, currently is traveling soloist and clinician)
Georges Barboteu
John Barrows
Hermann Baumann (former principal horn with Dortmund Radio Orchestra and Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, winner of International Music Competition in 1964, currently soloist, performing on Natural horn and Valved horn
Paul Basler (Horn player, horn professor at University of Florida, and composer)
Kendall Betts (former associate principal horn with Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Cincinnati Symphony, also principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979-2004)
Richard Bissill
Myron Bloom (principal horn of the Cleveland Orchestra (1954-1977)
Alfred Brain (Uncle of Dennis Brain)
Aubrey Brain (Father of Dennis Brain)
Dennis Brain (principal horn in both Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, soloist)
Vitali Buyanovsky
Domenico Ceccarossi
John Cerminaro ( principal New York Philharmonic(1969-79), principal Seattle Symphony 1996-present)
James Chambers (principal Philadelphia Orchestra, 1942-46 and principal New York Philharmonic 1946-69)
Alan Civil (second horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (to Dennis Brain), later principal of the Royal Philharmonic. In 1955, joined the Philharmonia, and in 1957 became principal horn, after the death of Dennis Brain. Principal of BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1966-88)
Dale Clevenger (principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1966-present)
Lisa Conway (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
David Cripps (London Symphony Orchestra)
Peter Damm
Louis-François Dauprat
Vincent DeRosa (LA studio player)
Stefan Dohr
Marjorie Dunn
Pip Eastop (Professor of Horn at Royal Academy of Music in London)
Jonathan Eddie (The Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, The English Chambera Orchestra, The Orchestra or The English National Opera)
John Entwistle
Eli Epstein
Annamia Eriksson
Philip Farkas (principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1936-41 and 1947-60, Cleveland Orchestra 1941-45 and 1946-47, Boston Symphony 1945-46, also horn professor at Indiana University from 1960-82)
Gottfried von Freiberg (former principal of Vienna Philharmonic, 1928-62. Premiered Strauss' Horn Concerto #2 in September of 1943.)
Jacques-Françoise Gallay
Lowell Greer (Natural horn performer)
Anthony Halstead
Clayton Hengst
Douglas Hill
Michael Holtzel
Anton Horner
Wendell Hoss
Gregory Hustis (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
Ifor James
David Jolley
Mason Jones (Philadelphia Orchestra)
Richard King
David Krehbiel (principal San Francisco Symphony, retired)
Julie Landsman (principal, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 1985-present)
Joseph Ignaz Leutgeb (pronounced Leitgeb in Viennese dialect)
Ib Lanzky-Otto
Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto
Frank Lloyd
John MacDonald
Philip Myers (principal, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1980-present)
Jeff Nelsen
Marie-Luise Neunecker
David Ohanian (Canadian Brass)
Erich Penzel
Hans Pizka
Valery Polekh
Giovanni Punto
William Purvis
David Pyatt (London Symphony Orchestra)
Kurt Richter (principal horn at Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 1950 - 1978, horn soloist under Karl Richter) (*1915-2007)
Eugene Rittich
Eric Ruske (former associate principal horn of Cleveland Orchestra, currently chamber musician, horn soloist, and faculty at Boston University)
Gunther Schuller (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra), (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), and composer
Bernhard Scully (Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
Richard "Gus" Sebring (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
James Sommerville (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Skip Snead (Transatlantic horn quartet, horn professor, University of Alabama)
Franz Strauss
James Thatcher (LA studio player)
Lucien Thévet
Michael Thompson (former principal with Philharmonia, currently teaches at Royal Academy of Music and is in-demand as a soloist/chamber musician/clinician)
Rick Todd
Barry Tuckwell (London Symphony Orchestra)
William Vermeulen (Houston Symphony Orchestra)
Radovan Vlatkovic (former principal of Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982-1990, currently teaches at Mozarteum in Salzburg, and is an in-demand soloist)
Richard Watkins (principal horn of Philharmonia from 1985-1996, currently teaching at Royal Academy of Music and is a traveling soloist/chamber musician/clinician)
Froydis Ree Wekre (member of Oslo Philharmonic from 1961-1991, co-principal from 1965 on, currently professor of horn at Norwegian State Academy of Music, and traveling soloist/clinician)
Gail Williams (associate principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1984-98, horn professor Northwestern University, 1989-present)
Richard Solis (associate principal horn, Cleveland Orchestra 1971-1978, principal horn, Cleveland Orchestra 1978-1995, fourth horn Cleveland Orchestra 1995-present, horn professor, Cleveland Institute of Music 1977-present