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| Bios: Michael Thornton: Michael Thornton joined the CSO as Principal Horn in 1997. He has appeared as a soloist for Richard Strauss’s First Horn Concerto, in Schumann's Konzerstucke for four horns, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b and Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux Etoiles. He has also been Principal Horn for the Honolulu Symphony and the Chautauqua Institute Festival Orchestra. Thornton has performed and toured with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Concerto Soloists Orchestra of Philadelphia, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic Brass Section. He has also performed numerous concerti in the Front Range region with the Aurora Symphony, Littleton Symphony, Lakewood Symphony, and others. He has recorded on the Angel/EMI, Koch International, Vox Classics, and Albany labels. Favorite Links: Hornplayer.net, Rocky Mountain Alphorn, Washington Island, WI, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Kristin Jurkscheit: Kristin Jurkscheit, Third/Associate Principal Horn, joined the CSO in 1992. During her tenure, she has performed as soloist on such concertos as Mozart’s Concerto No. 2 and Sinfonia Concertante. Jurkscheit is also the Principal Horn with the Cabrillo Music Festival and has been a guest soloist at the Morgan Library in New York City. She has performed in Boston and Oslo, Norway, and has won two fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Festival. Jurkscheit has recorded with various record labels including Koch, RCA, and Warner Bros. Carolyn Landis: Carolyn Landis, a member of the CSO since 2001, was accepted at the Juilliard School of Music when she was sixteen, where she studied with the Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera. She has performed solo with the Juilliard Symphony, the Aspen Academy Orchestra, and the Landsdowne Philharmonic. Landis has played with the MET Opera Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, and was a member of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy. She’s also a member of the Cabrillo Modern Music Festival conducted by Marin Alsop. David Brussel: David Brussel joined the CSO in 1982, and has performed with many Colorado ensembles including the Boulder Brass, the Central City Opera, and the Denver Chamber Orchestra. He is an active freelance performer, and has recorded two albums of art song transcriptions and jazz. In addition, he has served as conductor for productions by the Denver Opera Company, Opera Fort Collins, the Larimer Chorale, the Aurora Symphony Orchestra, the Rocky Mountain Youth Orchestra, and the Front Range Chamber Players. Brussel will be conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for Opera Fort Collins next summer. David Brussel teaches horn at Colorado State University. Jesse McCormick: Jesse McCormick, a native of Colorado, joined the Colorado Symphony in the fall of 2003. Mr. McCormick began his study of the French Horn with his mother Susan McCullough, Professor of Horn: Lamont School of Music. While in High School he studied with Sally Ann Wilson, freelance musician of the Denver area. He participated in the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony and the Young Concert Artists of Colorado Springs and was featured as soloist with both of those orchestras. Mr. McCormick was awarded the Jon Hawkins Scholarship in 1998 and was featured at the International Horn Workshop for that year in Banff, Canada. While attending the Juilliard School under the teaching of Jerome Ashby, Mr. McCormick had the pleasure of participating in the 2003 Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy with the Juilliard Orchestra. Mr. McCormick is now a member of The Denver Brass with his Mother and will be recording two brass CD's with that ensemble in June 2005. He enjoys spending one to two weeks of his summers at Kendall Betts Horn Camp in Lyman, New Hampshire, a two week intensive for serious Horn students of all ages. Mr. McCormick has been a brass coach for Colorado Springs Youth Symphony for 2 years and teaches privately in the Denver metro area. He also enjoys skiing or hiking weekly and resides with his two cats Calvin and Carlee. |
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| Equipment: Thornton: main instrument is an Elkhart Conn 8D (300 000 series). Other instruments include a Paxman 40X descant horn and an Englebert Schmid Triple Horn (F, Bb, Eb). Landis: main instrument is an Elkhart Conn 8D (M series). Brussel: main instrument is a Berg double horn (medium bore). Jurkscheit: main instrument is a Rauch double horn (large bore). Also plays an Englebert Schmid Triple Horn (F, Bb, Eb). McCormick: main instrument is an Elkhart Conn 8D (400 000 series). |
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| Fun
Facts: Did you know that the Colorado Symphony Horns performed the National Anthem at a Denver Broncos home game during the 2003 season? We are all big fans of the Broncos, and were proud to be a part of the game day production. Performing in front of 70,000 Broncos fans was a very fun experience.  |
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The
Colorado Symphony Horn section has also performed at the Flying Dog
Brewery- surrounded by tanks of beer. It was a very unique
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