Horn Notes Podcast

In this episode John Ericson chats with Gabriel Kovach, principal horn of the Phoenix Symphony, about etudes and more. Length 16:35

In this episode host John Ericson talks with Ion Balu (Balumusik.com) and Dan Vidican (Lukashorns.com) about their horns, developments in horn making, and more. Length 18:51

In this episode John Ericson has as his guest again Derek Wright of Houghton Horns, where the topic is custom horns. Following that, in a horn history segment John takes a brief look at the horn on the Internet twenty years ago. Length 20:05

Guests for this episode of the Horn Notes Podcast are Derek Wright of Houghton Horns, talking about new products seen at TMEA 2018 (BAM cases, Verus mouthpieces and horns), and Warren Gref, formerly of the San Diego Symphony, with ideas to improve musicality and accuracy on the horn. In addition, host John Ericson presents a tip on low range production. Length 25:28.

In this episode podcast host John Ericson goes over the main points from a January, 2017 presentation given at the Southwest Horn Conference, "Ten insights you can apply to your playing from the MRI horn studies." Originally posted to YouTube on 5/23/2017. Length 24:20.

In this episode our guest is Dr. Gustavo Camacho of Western Washington University, and the topic is working on tuning using drones. Originally posted to YouTube, 03/05/2017. Length 17:48.

In this episode John recaps a presentation from the 2017 Southwest Horn Symposium, looking at The Brass Gym for Horn, a 2007 publication which he helped edit. Originally posted to YouTube on 2/17/2017. Length 9:15.

In this episode John talks with Ericka Grodrian about her website "Beyond the Short Call," with a focus on some of the top operatic French horn excerpts. Originally posted to YouTube on 11/30/2016. Length 15:52.

We are joined again by Derek Wright of Houghton Horns, with the focus on testing horns and mouthpieces, but with also discussion of market trends in the French horn world and more. Originally posted to YouTube on 7/9/2016. Length 14:28.

In this episode the topic is mouthpieces generally but also more specifically the new Houghton Horns line of mouthpieces, with guest Derek Wright. Originally posted to YouTube, 7/8/16. Length 11:06.