Dear fellow horn players!
In my experience as a participant in numerous international horn competitions, I have met with dozens of young horn players, I have tied links with some of today’s best professional players from all over the world and I have listened to so much great horn playing!!! Every new competition was a challenge and an opportunity to learn something, new repertoire, different players, wonderful horn sounds, and to meet with all kinds of human beings, ranging from the narrow-minded competitive asshole to the sweetest beer/wine drinking horn playing people around! These competitions also helped me to bring my playing to the best it could be at the time, made me a much stronger and better player and a more open and curious artist. I really wish I could do it again!
I am very pleased to present you with a new program the IHS has put together through its International Competition Funds. It will reward the winners of international horn competitions, with an additional US$1,000 prize, an IHS membership as well as a Featured Artist spot to a subsequent International Horn Symposium. These measures are put together to encourage younger horn players to join into these competitions, to meet and hear other hornists and to give the best out of their horn!
From October 30th to November 4th will be held the International « Città di Porcia » Competition in Italy, stay tuned for the stories and news!
Also, applications are now open for the Prague Spring Competition, which will take place from May 7th to 15th, 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic. You have until December 1st, 2017 to send your application. All informations are available at http://competition.festival.cz/en/news or through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PragueSpringCompetition/
I sincerely hope all the horn competitions participants will get some fun and some learning experiences out of it, and eventually will bring the horn world to a higher level!!!
Louis-Philippe Marsolais
IHS Advisory Council
