James Naigus, currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Iowa, is our youngest featured artist in this month’s newsletter. His teachers include Paul Basler, Jeffrey Agrell, Bryan Kennedy, Adam Unsworth, and Soren Hermansson. James is a frequent guest artist at IHS regional and international symposia, most recently at IHS47 in Los Angeles. His sonorous, melodic compositions have enjoyed increasing popularity in the horn world of late, including two works written through the Meir Rimon Commissioning Assistance Fund: Beale Suite (for horn quartet) and Spectra (for horn, trombone, and piano.)
Have a listen to both of these pieces here:
Beale Street: https://soundcloud.com/jnaigus/sets/beale-suite
Spectra: https://soundcloud.com/jnaigus/sets/spectra-demo
For more recordings and information, please visit http://jamesnaigus.com/home.html
