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Now Hiring: The IHS is hiring a part-time Executive Administrative Assistant as well as a part-time Marketing Manager! Please click the following links to view the position description and to submit an application. Apply by Monday, October 13 to be considered!
The International Horn Society (IHS) is seeking a Marketing Manager to lead and execute digital outreach through email, newsletter, and social media. The role requires consistent communication and alignment with IHS’s organizational goals and messaging strategy. Attendance at relevant meetings and timely responsiveness to feedback are essential due to the nature of marketing and social media.
The Executive Administrative Assistant position works as the assistant to the chief administrative position for the International Horn Society. Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Executive Administrative Assistant facilitates communication with membership and within the IHS staff and volunteers.
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Brett Miller's new Etudes on Russian Masterworks have been added to the IHS Online Music Sales.
The 21 Etudes on Russian Masterworks focus on particularly demanding technical or musical challenges that horn players encounter in preparing the orchestral works of some of the great Russian orchestral composers for performance or audition. I have attempted to compose each etude in a manner that is stylistically coherent with the writing of these composers. These etudes are composed so that technique is served by musicality. While striving to make each etude extremely challenging, I composed each work as though it could be performed as an unaccompanied recital piece.
Each etude pushes the technical envelope far past the excerpt upon which it is based, whether the etude is based on articulation, dynamic control, transposition, lyricism, or pure finger technique inherent in each symphonic excerpt. It is my intention that achieving mastery on a particular etude will directly translate into an overall ease in performing the work upon which it is based. Furthermore, these etudes will develop technique that directly correlates to the performance of a symphonic work in a manner that is more musically liberating than constant repetition of a particular excerpt. Therefore, these etudes are not only beneficial to those who are learning the orchestral literature from the ground up, but for those who need a new way in which to practice and to enhance their understanding of a particular excerpt.
Oscar Sala's warm is the newest item in the IHS Online Music Sales.
Oscar Sala is the principal hornist in the Orchestra of the City of Granada. He has assembled this comprehensive warm-up, complete with photographs and instructions for each of exercises. He includes two versions of the warm up, a full extended version and a shorter reduced version.
All works will be PLAYED and judged by the BCMW coaching staff.
Winners' works will be performed during the July 2013 Brass Chamber Music Workshop in Arcata, California. Amateur musicians will perform the music in a workshop format. Qualifying submissions will be added to the Workshop Library.
Jonathan Boen, Principal Horn with The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Grant Park and Music of the Baroque orchestras has joined the roster of Featured Artists for the 45th International Horn Symposium, to be held July 29 - August 3, 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
London Symphony member Angela Barnes will be a Featured Artist at the 45th International Horn Symposium, to be held July 29 - August 3, 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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