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Bohdan Šebestík has been professor of horn and the martial art of Aikido at ESMAE (University of Music and Performing Arts, Porto) since 1995. With former students performing and teaching at a high level around the globe, his influence on the last two generations of Portuguese horn players is enormous.
Bohdan was born in Kroměříž in the former Czechoslovakia. He took up the horn following studies in piano and trumpet. From 1978 to 1982, he attended the Janáček Academy of Music (JAMU) University in Brno, where he completed his Master’s degree with Professor František Šolc.
He participated in several national competitions, including the Kraslice National Competition and the JAMU competition of Brno, where he won first prize. Soon afterward, Bohdan was the winner of several international horn competitions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland.
Professor Šebestík held positions with the orchestra of the Armed Forces in Prague, the Brno Opera, and the Brno Philharmonic. He has been a member of the National Orchestra of Porto since 1994 (solo horn since 2001). He was given the Punto Award in 2022.
Christoph Eß has established himself as one of the leading horn players of his generation. He has been a prizewinner at several international music competitions and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician all over the world. Christoph began his training at the Musikschule Tübingen with Peter Hoefs, with further study in Basel and Stuttgart with Christian Lampert and Wolfgang Wipfler. Prior to joining the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as Principal Horn in 2007, he held positions as Third Horn with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Principal Horn with the Essen Philharmonic. From 2017-2020 he served as Professor of Horn at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.
Christoph has won top prizes at national and international competitions, including the European Classic Festival Ruhr, the Concorso Internazionale per Corno di Sannicandro di Bari, the International ARD Music Competition in Munich, and the Richard Strauss Competition. In 2007 he was awarded first prize at the prestigious Prague Spring International Music Competition. In 2008, he won the Soloist Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, followed by a scholarship award at the German Music Competition in Berlin in 2009.
As a soloist he has performed with many of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Bamberg Symphony, the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Prague Philharmonia, and the chamber orchestras of Munich, Stuttgart, and Salzburg. In April 2007, he gave his debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall with the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin. During the 2017-2018 season he was Artist in Residence with the Philharmonie Neubrandenburg and performed and recorded all the Mozart concertos with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra in Essen. Further highlights include concerts with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalzm, and the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal. He has recorded frequently for the GENUINclassics and PragaDigitals labels, as well as Bavarian Radio, Radio DRS, Deutschlandradio Kultur, and Czech Radio.
In high demand as a chamber musician, Christoph has collaborated with Christian Zacharias, Andreas Scholl, the Fauré Quartett, the Zemlinsky Quartett, Quatour Ebène, Boris Kusnezow, and Viviane Hagner. He is the founder of the renowned horn quartet German Hornsound, with whom he is a regular guest artist at Europe’s most prestigious music festivals.
Christoph was honored with the Punto Award in 2021.
Israel Oliveira is an influential horn player in Brazil. He has been first horn of the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre (OSPA) since 2004.
Israel was a student of Ozéas Arantes at the Municipal School of Music in São Paulo. In 1991, he won the Young Soloists contest at the Universidade Livre de Música and soloed with the São Paulo Youth Symphonic Band.
He has been a member of the São Paulo Symphony, the São Paulo Symphonic Band, the Experimental de Repertório, the Santo André, Ribeirão Preto, Santos and USP Symphonics, the São Bernardo do Campo Philharmonic, and the USP Chamber Orchestra. He has participated in festivals in Poços de Caldas, Itu, Campos do Jordão, and Pelotas, and taught classes in Itanhaém, Belém do Pará, Montevideo, UFRN (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte).
Israel is an active chamber musician, performing with the Quinteto Metal Mania, Quinteto Porto Alegre, and the faculty wind quintet at the OSPA Conservatory. A passionate organizer of horn-related groups, Israel founded the Confrasulhorns (Confraria de Horn players of Rio Grande do Sul), which encourages and mentors young horn players throughout the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He is also the founder and general coordinator of LatinoAmericaHorns, a group of Latin American horn players united by their love of the horn.
Israel was honored with the Punto Award in 2021.
Anneke Scott is a leading exponent of historical horn playing and an influential performer, teacher, and researcher. Her work takes her across the globe and throughout the centuries of music with a repertoire incorporating music and instruments from the late seventeenth century through to the present day. She teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the University of Birmingham, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and the online music lesson platform Play with a Pro. Her research influences her teaching, and she has published a natural horn method based on her research sources.
Anneke is principal horn of period instrument ensembles including Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The English Baroque Soloists, ensemble Pygmalion, The Orchestra of the Sixteen, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, and the Dunedin Consort and Players. She also appears as a guest principal horn with orchestras and ensembles worldwide.
Anneke has an international solo career, and her discography embraces three centuries of virtuosic horn works. She is frequently heard performing the famous baroque obbligato arias of composers such as Bach and Handel as well as solo concertos from that period. Her solo recordings also include three discs focusing on the music of Jacques François Gallay.
Anneke enjoys collaborating with a wide group of musicians and is a key member of a number of chamber music ensembles including nineteenth century period brass ensemble The Prince Regent’s Band, the harmoniemusik ensemble Boxwood & Brass, historic wind ensemble Syrinx, and ensembleF2. She regularly works with leading period keyboardists including Steven Devine, Neal Peres da Costa, Geoffrey Govier, and Kathryn Cok and period harpist Frances Kelly.
Claude Maury is one of the leading Belgian hornists, specializing in natural horn, and is professor of natural horn at the Conservatoire in Paris and Versailles.
Claude was born in Belgium in 1956 and studied modern horn and chamber music at the Conservatoire Royal in Mons, Wallonia, Belgium. Further studies with Francis Orval, André Vandriessche, Michel Garcin-Marrou, and Hermann Baumann led to his first job with the orchestra of the Opera Royal de Wallonie in 1974, then in 1976 as a mem ber of the French Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra. After winning prizes at the Gallay competition for natural horn in 1981 and the natural horn competition in Bad Harzburg, Germany in 1984, he left the orchestra for a career freelancing on period instruments.
Claude plays on a regular basis on period instruments with the ensembles La Petite Bande, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Anima Eterna, Les Arts Florissants, Opera Fuoco, and le Parlement de Musique. He also plays occasionally with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestrata, Concerto Köln, Tafelmusik, The English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan, and others. He has recorded many solo and chamber music CD’s, mainly on natural horn.
Jeroen Billiet is passionate about horn playing, especially natural horn playing and the history of Belgian horn playing. He is currently solo horn with le Concert d’Astrée and les Talens Lyriques and a faculty member at Artesis-Plantijn Hogeschool-Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory School of Arts Ghent. He is also the IHS Area Representative for Belgium and was host of the 2019 IHS Symposium at the Royal Conservatory School of Arts Ghent.
Jeroen Billiet is passionate about horn playing, especially natural horn playing and the history of Belgian horn playing. He is currently solo horn with le Concert d’Astrée and les Talens Lyriques and a faculty member at Artesis-Plantijn Hogeschool-Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory School of Arts Ghent. He is also the IHS Area Representative for Belgium and was host of the 2019 IHS Symposium at the Royal Conservatory School of Arts Ghent.
Jeroen has special interest in historical performance practice. He was awarded the title Laureate of the Orpheus Institute with his dissertation “200 Years of the Belgian Horn School, a comprehensive study of the horn in Belgium, 1889-1960.” His doctoral research, “Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque,” focuses on the artistic aspects of the horn horn-playing tradition emerging from the Ghent Conservatory during that period.
Jeroen was born in Tielt, Belgium in 1977. He studied horn at the conservatories in Ghent and Brussels with Luc Bergé. He earned master’s degrees in both performance and education from the Brussels Conservatory in 2001 and entered post-graduate study at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent.
Jeroen has performed and toured with l’Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Concerto Köln, Anima Eterna Brugge, and Il Giardino Armonico. He was principal horn of les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble and of Insula Orchestra. He regularly performs with B’Rock Gent and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He is a founding member of the Mengal Ensemble, which has released two CDs. He taught at music schools in Bruges and Tielt before taking up his current positions.
John Cox was principal horn of the Oregon Symphony (1982-2020), appearing as soloist with the orchestra numerous times and heard on all Oregon Symphony broadcasts and recordings. John has been an active supporter of the IHS and of horn activities in the Pacific Northwest, with numerous performances and presentations at the workshops of the Northwest Horn Society and regional universities as well as across the US in guest recitals, masterclasses, and workshops.
John is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Evansville. He performs with Chamber Music Northwest, the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, and at Lincoln Center. He has been featured at IHS symposiums, on the faculty of the Tuckwell Institute, and across the country in chamber music performances. He can be heard on CDs as soloist in the music of Chopin, Schumann, and Walter Gieselking, with the Oregon Symphony horn section, and as hornist with the Westwood Woodwind Quintet. John is an adjunct faculty horn instructor at the University of Portland.
John’s first IHS performance was in 1972 at Indiana University. He has published several articles in The Horn Call, most notably a series on orchestra contract negotiations. He was honored with the Punto Award in 2020.
