Radegundis Feitosa
Radegundis Feitosa was the Founding President of the Brazilian Horn Association (2013-2015), served on the IHS Advisory Council (2017-2024), and led the IHS as President (2021-2024). Under his leadership, the IHS successfully navigated a return to in-person symposiums following the Covid-19 pandemic.
A pioneering musician in Brazil, Feitosa recorded the first compact disc featuring a Brazilian brass player playing standard European classical repertoire (Universal), as well as the first album featuring improvisations on the horn by a Brazilian player (Radegundis Tavares). He hosted the first two Brazilian Horn Meetings and the first International Horn Symposium in Latin America, IHS49, held in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte in 2017. In the same year, he was elected to the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society, the second South American to hold that position.
Since April 2008, he has been professor of horn at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN, where, in addition to teaching and performing regularly, he has coordinated projects, groups, and outreach events.
Radegundis was awarded the Service Medal of Honor in 2025
Julia Burtscher
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Julia Burtscher served as Executive Director of the International Horn Society from 2019-2023. In addition to her work with the IHS, Julia built her career with the North American railroad industry. Her diligence, attention to detail, and commitment to the “customer experience” translated directly into her role with the IHS. A self-described “horn convert,” Julia started on trumpet at age 10 and decided to switch to the horn in junior high school. She went on to study with Mary Kihslinger at the University of Toledo.
As Executive Director of the IHS, Julia worked tirelessly behind the scenes: paying bills, working with accountants for tax filing and financial reporting, scrubbing and sending mailing lists to the printer for The Horn Call mailing, facilitating Advisory Council elections, preparing materials for Advisory Council meetings, and a great deal more. During her time as Executive Director, she worked extensively with the IHS Advisory Council and Executive Committee to assess available tools and resources to implement the IHS’s mission. Julia has said that her position as Executive Director allowed her to “work with truly amazing people who make me better just by knowing them,” and the same can be said of her.
As an amateur player with a career completely outside of music, Julia epitomizes many of the ideals of the IHS – fostering a community and connecting with others over a shared love for the horn.
Julia was awarded the Service Medal of Honor in 2024.
Andrew Pelletier
Internationally active horn soloist, chamber musician, and masterclass clinician, Andrew Pelletier enjoys solo playing, orchestral performance, and mentoring developing musicians. The First Prize winner of the 1997 and 2001 American Horn Competition, he has appeared often as a Featured Artist at IHS Symposiums. A Lifetime member of the IHS and the British Horn Society, Andy has served the IHS as President (2018-2021), host/coordinator of IHS53 (2021), Advisory Council member, Coordinator of Scholarships and Competitions, member of the Digital E-Newsletter committee, and Ohio Area Representative.
Dedicated to new music and the collaboration between performer and composer, Andy has commissioned and premiered over fifty new works for the horn as a solo voice, by composers including Samuel Adler, David Crumb, Randall Faust, Katherine Likhuta, Anne McGinty, Roger Reynolds, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Kerry Turner.
As a chamber musician, Andy performs with Southwest Chamber Music in California, the Motor City Brass Quintet in Detroit, and others. As an orchestral performer, he is the principal horn of the Michigan Opera Theatre, and has performed as guest principal horn for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, and Toledo Opera. He spent almost a decade as an active freelancer in Los Angeles and can be heard on film soundtracks and television movies.
His pedagogical articles have been published by the IHS, the Norwegian Horn Society, the Texas Bandmaster’s Association, and the New York Brass Conference. He holds a BM degree from the University of Southern Maine, and MM and DMA degrees from the University of Southern California, studying with James Decker, John Boden, David Jolley, trumpeter Roy Poper, Michael Thompson, and Gail Williams.
Andy has been Professor of Horn of the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio, since 2004, where he also serves as the Coordinator of the Brass Area. He was named a Professor of Creative Arts Excellence at BGSU in 2020. Andy plays exclusively on horns by Paxman of London, and mouthpieces by PHC London.
Dan Phillips
The IHS has depended on Dan since 2007 for the ever-more-important website management. The term “master” appropriately applies to Dan. He also operates The Jury-System™, a web application for administering college music juries. He was host of the 2013 International Horn Symposium in Memphis.
Dan is Professor Emeritus of Horn at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music of The University of Memphis, having retired in 2019. Before arriving at Memphis in 1999, he taught at Southern Illinois University and Iowa State University. He holds degrees in horn performance from Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame and has done additional graduate study at Indiana University.
In addition to his teaching duties, Dan played in the Memphis Brass Quintet, the Memphis Woodwind Quintet, and the university's faculty Birth of the Cool Ensemble. Outside of the university, he played in the PRIZM Ensemble, a mixed instrument chamber music group, the Eroica Ensemble, and frequently as substitute or extra with the Memphis Symphony.
Dan’s background as a hornist includes extensive experience in solo, chamber ensemble, symphonic, studio, and operatic idioms throughout the US and in Europe, Brazil, and Japan. He has a broad background as a conductor, arranger, and teacher. He served three terms as Visiting Professor at Southern Illinois University's campus in Nakajo, Japan; and in the spring of 1992 he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Latvian Music Academy in Riga.
Dan was awarded the Service Medal of Honor during the IHS 53 remote symposium in 2021.
Annie Bosler
Annie Bosler has been a member of the IHS Advisory Council, served on the Executive Committee as Secretary/Treasurer for five years, and cohosted the 47th International Horn Symposium in 2015, bringing over a thousand musicians to Los Angeles. Annie holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MM and DMA from the University of Southern California.
She wears many hats in her career as a Los Angeles freelance horn player. Annie has toured with Star Wars in Concert and with Josh Groban, and performed on Dancing with the Stars, The Ellen Show, and PBS's Live from Lincoln Center. Annie can be heard on many motion pictures, video games, theme park rides, and TV shows as well as seen playing horn on Fox's TV show Glee.
Annie has taught at the Colburn School and is also on the faculty at California State University, Northridge. She co-authored College Prep for Musicians, a book for high school students, parents, teachers, and counselors. Also, Annie produced and directed 1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Years, a one-of-a-kind documentary film about the history of Los Angeles studio musicians told through the eyes of legendary Hollywood horn players.
Annie is married to studio hornist Dylan Skye Hart. She has a love for teaching, writing, producing film projects, Instagram, agriculture, traveling, playing tennis, and watching college football.
Annie was awarded the Service Medal of Honor in 2023.
Jeffrey Snedeker
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 anniversary book on the history of the IHS, published in 2021. On a regional level, Jeff has been on the music faculty of Central Washing 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.
Jeff 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.
Jeff won First Place in the Natural Horn Division of the 1991 American Horn Competition and is principal horn with the Yakima Symphony. He is a member of the CWU Faculty Wind Quintet and the CWU Faculty Brass Quintet, and directs the CWU Brass Choir and CWU Horn Ensemble. He has played with many orchestras regionally and around the country, and on film and video game scores. He gives concerto performances, traditional and natural horn recitals, and jazz gigs across the US and around the world.
Jeff 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.
Jeff was awarded the Service Medal of Honor in 2020.
Elaine Braun
Elaine Braun has been active in the IHS in myriad ways since the early years: contributing to The Horn Call with articles and poems from the 1970s, serving on the Advisory Council (1982-1988 and 2015-2017), as Secretary-Treasurer (1983-1986), as the first IHS Representative for Canada (1981-1998), as US Area Representatives Coordinator (2010-2019) and Membership Coordinator (2017-2024), and currently as North America Area Representatives Coordinator (starting in 2019). She is the epitome of a loyal contributing member of the horn community.
Elaine received her Bachelor of Music Education degree at the University of Buffalo where she studied horn with Lowell Shaw, and her Master’s degree in Music Education at the University of Western Ontario (London), where she also taught horn and conducted the Horn Ensemble. While in London, she played in Western’s Faculty Chamber Orchestra, sang in the Gerald Fagan Singers, and played harp in Western’s New Music Ensemble. She also taught at the Western Conservatory of Music and was principal horn in the Fanshawe Orchestra.
While still living in Canada she worked for the Buffalo Philharmonic, first in Operations/Education then as Assistant Librarian. She also conducted the Fort Erie Legion Band and the Fort Erie Chorale, and sang in the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Chamber Chorus. Then she became General Manager of the Maryland Symphony in Hagerstown, where she played in the Hagerstown Concert Band, sang in the Hagerstown Chorale, and conducted the New Horizons Band of Hagerstown. She moved to Erie PA to be General Manager of the Erie Philharmonic, and Conductor/Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic Chorus. She also played in the Edinburgh Concert Band and a horn eEnsemble in Westfield NY.
Elaine currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she plays in the Nashville Community Concert Band, sings in the Vanderbilt Community Chorus, and teaches at Croft Middle School – in addition to her continuing responsibilities with the IHS.
