Jeffrey Snedeker epitomizes service to the horn community and the IHS. He has served on the Advisory Council (2003-2010, 2016-2021), including terms as president (2006-2010, 2016-2018), edited The Horn Call (1998-2003), edited Music Reviews (2003-2016), curated the 2020 Virtual Workshop, and is editor of the 50th anniversary book on the history of the IHS (2021). On a regional level, he has been on the music faculty of Central Washington University in Ellensburg since 1991, co-founded the Northwest Horn Society, hosted the Northwest Horn Workshop several times and supported other hosts, and is engaged with regional performing ensembles, educational institutions, and community outreach.

Snedeker holds a BA from Heidelberg College (1980), MM in performance from the University of Michigan (1981), MA in music history from Ohio State University (1985), and a DMA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991). He has published more than 50 articles, including entries in the New Grove Dictionary, and has released five solo CDs with music for natural horn and horn in jazz.

As a performer, Snedeker has received numerous honors, most notably First Place in the Natural Horn Division of the 1991 American Horn Competition. He currently serves as Principal Horn with the Yakima Symphony. He has been a featured artist, clinician, lecturer, conductor, and host of regional, national, and international conferences on six continents for the International Horn Society, Historic Brass Society, Northwest Horn Society, Washington Music Educators Association, among others, and given concerto appearances, traditional recitals, natural horn performances, and jazz gigs all over the US, and in Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Finland, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, and Brazil. He has also organized and hosted a wide range of events, including early music, brass, and horn workshops. He has held positions and played extra horn with regional, metropolitan, and festival orchestras in Washington (including Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera), Oregon (including the Oregon Symphony), Utah (including the Utah Symphony Orchestra), Wisconsin, Ohio, New Mexico, Virginia, and Michigan. He has also performed with Early Music Vancouver and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, BC, and the Seattle Classical Players, among other period-instrument groups. Jeff has also performed on film and video game scores with Seattlemusic, Seattle Film Institute, and others, including Mirror, Mirror, Underworld: Awakening, World of Warcraft 6, and Arkham Origins.

Snedeker serves on the Board of Directors of the Historic Brass Society and the Washington Music Educators Association Advisory Board. Honors include the 2006 CWU Faculty Member of the Year, 2008 CWU Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year, 2012 WMEA Higher Education Music Educator of the Year, CWU Distinguished University Faculty for Service, 2014 Washington State Representative Timm Ormsby Faculty Citizenship Award, the 2014 National Phi Kappa Phi Artist Award, and in 2018, induction into the WMEA Hall of Fame.

Snedeker was awarded the IHS Service Medal of Honor in 2020 and elected an Honorary Member in 2026.

Bedřich Tylšar, a Czech horn player and pedagogue, was a long-time member of the Czech Philharmonic and an exponent of the Czech tradition of horn playing. He and his brother, Zdeněk (1945-2006) often performed together as a duo. Double horn concertos (and horn concertos in general) were prevalent during the Baroque and Classical periods, and the brothers revived and carried on this tradition.

The inspiration came to Bedřich at a music shop in Brussels, Belgium in 1962 when he heard a recording of two horns and decided to follow up by exploring archives. "I realized that these instruments [two horns] go together perfectly thanks to the abundance of overtones," Bedřich recalls. The brothers' first performance together was a Rosetti double concerto in E-flat in Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1964. The brothers made two-horn works by Czech composers such as Rosetti, Fiala, Reicha, and Pokorny widely known, as well as double concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Haydn and horn concertos by Vivaldi, Haydn, and Leopold Mozart.

After graduating from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Bedřich Tylšar played in the Gottwald Philharmonic (now the Bohuslav Martinů Zlín Philharmonic), the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), the Munich Philharmonic (1967-1969), and from 1973 until 2001 the Czech Philharmonic (with his brother as principal horn). He also performed as a soloist at home and abroad and recorded about twenty albums. He has been a judge for the Prague Spring competition and taught at the Prague Conservatory.

Bedřich Tylšar was elected an IHS Honorary Member in 2024.

Martin Hackleman began playing the horn at the age of 16, studying with Caesar LaMonaca in Houston. Other teachers have included Barry Tuckwell and Roland Berger of the Vienna Philharmonic. He studied at the University of Houston and at age 19 joined the Calgary Philharmonic as principal horn. After two seasons in Calgary, he joined the Vancouver Symphony as solo horn, where he played for the next nine years.

In 1983 Hackleman left Vancouver to join the world-renowned Canadian Brass.  His three years with the group saw many outstanding achievements, including recordings for CBS Masterworks, extensive tours of the US, Canada, Europe, and the Far East, a Canadian JUNO award for "best classical record,” the group's Hollywood Bowl premiere, and the release of their first video. Hackleman then joined the Empire Brass Quintet, whose moderate concert schedule allowed him time to pursue a solo career as well as specialty interests such as the Vienna horn and natural horn. He was a member of the EBQ for four years.

He returned to Vancouver in November of 1989, where he played principal horn in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra once again and served as Adjunct Professor of Horn at the University of British Columbia. In 1990, Hackleman helped launch a nationally broadcast chamber music series on CBC Radio called "CURIO," featuring chamber music of forgotten composers.

 For the 1999-2000 season, he was invited to play principal horn in the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit. In 2000 he was appointed principal horn of the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, where he remained until 2012 when joined the faculty at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He performed as guest principal with the Philadelphia Orchestra on two occasions while living in Washington DC, and also played principal horn in the Chautauqua Orchestra at The Chautauqua Institute and at the Waterloo Festival in Princeton, New York.

Hackleman has made numerous recordings with the National Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Canadian Brass, Tidewater Brass, Washington Symphonic Brass, and the Empire Brass. In 1999 he recorded two solo albums: one entirely of his own arrangements for solo horn with piano and string accompaniment, and one of five lost Romantic concertos with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. In addition, a recording of chamber music for two horns and bassoon was released in the spring of 1996. In November of 1998 a Christmas recording with horn quartet was released. A disc of the Brahms Horn Trio with other chamber music was released in July of 2000.

Hackleman has made numerous contributions to horn pedagogy, including etudes and other materials published by Editions Bim and Legacy Horn Experience. He has served on the faculty at the University of Maryland, Boston University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Music. For four years he coached the Asian Youth Orchestra and participated in their annual world tours. As a member of Summit Brass, he has performed, recorded, and taught during the summers at the Rafael Méndez Brass Institute. For many years he was a design consultant with Yamaha. Over the years he has been invited to give master classes at Juilliard, the Manhattan School, Curtis Institute, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Martin Hackleman was elected an IHS Honorary Member in 2024.