Jeff Nelsen and Alan Orloff, 1st Annual SCMEA Day of Horn
Welcome to the
SCMEA Day of Horn Webpage!
SCMEA proudly announces the 6th Annual Day of Horn!
Please save the date:
January 14, 2011
Commack Middle School
Registration begins at 3:30pm!
Artist/Clinician to be announced.
New expanded clinic format.
Information about Day of Horn Registration!
SCMEA members will use our online registration system, www.scmeafest.org for the entire Day of Horn registration process. Registration for all hornists is also available. Contact me at hornday@scmea.org with your intention to register and we will send a registration form via email or snailmail.
Questions and further information can be addressed by contacting
Day of Horn Chairperson Alan Orloff by email at hornday@scmea.org or by phone at (631) 427-8176 or (631) 365-3763.
We look forward to seeing you at the
6th Annual SCMEA Day of Horn, January 14, 2011!
Day of Horn History
SCMEA Day of Horn started as an outgrowth of the horn symposiums sponsored by the International Horn Society (see links below).
In 1971, a group of the world’s greatest horn players met in Tallahassee Florida and formed the IHS, declaring once and for all that the official name of our instrument is“horn”.History shows that our instrument is more closely related to the Roman cornu and the Danish luhrs then to any instrument specifically developed in France. Here is the actual record of that event:
The International Horn Society recommends that HORN be recognized as the correct English label for our instrument.
[From the Minutes of the First International Horn Society General Meeting,
June 15,1971, Tallahassee, Floriday, USA]
We have been fortunate to have the world’s greatest hornists as our artist/clinicians. Horn students of SuffolkCounty have benefited immeasurably from meeting and hearing these incredible musicians.Special thanks to Jeff Nelsen, Professor of Horn at Indiana University and hornist of the world renowned Canadian Brass, William Purvis, Principle Horn of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Professor of Horn at Yale, Julliard and Stony Brook, R.J.Kelly, world renowned solo,ensemble and hand hornist and Adam Unsworth, Prof.of Horn at Univ.of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Philadelphia Orchestra and jazz artist extraordinaire for their participation in the first four events.
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Jeff Nelsen's Website Website of our friend and 1st Day of Horn artist/clinician Jeff Nelsen. Jeff is now Professor of Horn at Indiana University along with his playing responsibilities with the Canadian Brass.
