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Joseph White was one of the founding members of the International Horn Society, worked with Bill Robinson in organizing the first International Horn Workshop in 1969, and spent most of his career teaching horn and theory at Florida State University. "He was a truly wonderful person and a very thorough teacher in everything that he did," says Bill.
Joe attended Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Mason Jones, James Chambers, and Joseph Eger, studying with Anton Horner, whom he greatly admired. He later earned a doctorate at the University of Michigan and immediately started teaching at Florida State, where he also took on many administrative duties. He even worked part-time after his retirement until his death while working in his office on a Saturday.
Joe was an IHS Advisory Board member (1971-1974). He led the committee to draft the constitution for the IHS in 1971, appointing Alex Grieve, Michael Höltzel, Harry Hoffman, Robert Marsh, Lowell Shaw, and James Winter to work with him. He was honored with the Punto Award at the 25th IHS symposium in Tallahassee FL in 1993.
Stefan Ruf is a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and jurist in Switzerland.
Stefan studied in Basel with J. Brejza, in Detmold, Germany with Michael Höltzel, and in Cologne, Germany with Erich Penzel. His chamber music playing includes the Orpheus Quintet, for which many composers have written and dedicated works.
Stefan teaches young students at the Basel and Zürich conservatories, and his students are regularly successful in competitions. He has developed a system of starting children as young as five years old on single B-flat horns. Stefan also serves on competition juries.
Stefan was honored with the Punto Award at the 2007 International Horn Workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
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Ludwig Heibl and Richard Theurer at their
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Ludwig Heibl was second horn in the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra (Munich) in a section led by Hans Pizka, which played the premiere of Strauss's opera Capriccio in 1942, under Clemens Krauss, and the first recording of the Alpine Symphony, under the composer.
Heibl was born in 1911 and studied with Josef Suttner. He played first in a police band, then joined the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra in 1937. He retired in 1976. His younger brother Walter was a flutist and professor of flute.
Heibl was honored with the Punto Award at the IHS symposium in Munich, Germany in 1989.
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Richard Theurer, his brother Walter (a flutist), and Ludwig Heibl at Richard and Ludwig's retirement party in 1976
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Richard Theurer was fourth horn in the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra (Munich) in a section led by Hans Pizka, which played the premiere of Strauss's opera Capriccio in 1942, under Clemens Krauss, and the first recording of the Alpine Symphony, under the composer.
Theurer was born in 1913 and studied with Josef Suttner. He worked in Bern, Switzerland, then joined the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra in 1937. He retired in 1976.
Theurer was honored with the Punto Award at the IHS symposium in Munich, Germany in 1989.
Arthur Bevan has always been greatly respected as a horn player and for his unflappable professionalism. He has been described as "kindly, gentle, and good humored."
Bevan was born in 1927 in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and attended the Kingswood School in Bath, where the housemaster, Dr. John Wray, encouraged the boys to listen to Sunday afternoon war-time concerts on the radio. "He probably doesn't realize his influence on me to this day," said Bevan. Bevan started horn because of a spare instrument being available at the school. The headmaster tried to discourage him from being a musician, but then advised him, "If you must, then get a good teacher."
Bevan studied while on school holidays in Bramhall with Otto Paersh, an influential teacher and son of Franz Paersch, who had been brought to Manchester in 1888 as principal horn of the Hallé Orchestra. Bevan continued with Paersh at Royal Manchester College on scholarship in 1950 after two years of National Service in the band of the South Staffordshire Regiment.
Bevan and his father were at the Hanley train station (not far from their home in Stoke) waiting for the train after a concert when his father introduced him to Sir John Barbirolli.
Bevan's first professional engagement was as second horn in the Buxton Spa Orchestra. In 1949, while still a student, he received a telegram from the Hallé manager to help out for a Saturday night concert. He auditioned for Barbirolli two days later and retired from the orchestra forty years later, in 1989. He played third horn and first when required. He was named assistant first in 1969.
Barbirolli told a new, young horn player, Enid Roper, "You'll be sitting next to Arthur Bevan; I think you'll get on." They got on well enough to be married for many years, until her death in 1990, after which Bevan moved to Wales.
During his career, Bevan also played with the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the BBC Northern Symphony orchestra. Asked about the best horn player he has ever heard, he named Dennis Brain. "He has such beautiful technique and phrasing, absolutely natural," said Bevan.
Stephen Stirling, who played the Hallé from 1979-1982, says, “I loved Arthur and treasure memories of him in boring rehearsals, awaking from apparent deep sleep, to tell me, without fail, the exact bar that we were in. He had a kind word for everyone and was a model of professionalism.”
Bevan was honored with the Punto Award at the IHS workshop in Manchester, England in 1992. A profile appears in the October 1992 issue of The Horn Call and other articles appear in the Hallé Magazine in April 1984 and May 1989. An obituary appears in The Horn Player, Spring 2012.
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| (front) Leipzig Horn Quartet; (rear) Wiener Waldhornverein (Siegfried Schwarzl, far right) |
Siegfried Schwarzl was a member and director of the Wiener Waldhornverein (WWV – Vienna Horn Society) and an authority on its history. He was president of the society at its 100th anniversary in 1983 and wrote a book (published in English in 1987) entitled, "The development of horn ensemble music from the romantic era to the present time in Vienna and in other cultural circles."
Schwarzl studied horn with Gottfried von Freiberg and became a member of the Vienna State Opera orchestra, but his music career was interrupted with military duty during the war. Afterward, he directed the stage band of the State Opera, but also studied climatology and became a respected climatologist. He particularly loved the Vienna horn, horn ensembles, and the Vienna Horn Society.
Schwarzl was a member of the IHS Advisory Council (1982-1989). He was honored with the Punto award at the 1985 International Horn Symposium at Towson State University in Baltimore MD, where he gave a lecture/demonstration on the development of horn ensemble music and the Vienna horn. His article about the International Symposium for Brass Instrument Players' Chamber Music in Hungary appears in the October 1985 issue of The Horn Call.
Jack Herrick taught for 30 years at the University of Northern Colorado (1972-2002) and maintained a full performance schedule during that time.
Jack was born in St. Paul in 1946. He started on cornet and switched to horn in 1960 on the advice of his band director, George Regis, at the high school in Stillwater MN. He studied with Christopher Leuba in MN, James Miller and Chuck Kavalovski at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), and an intensive 10-day course with Dale Clevenger in 1973. "All of these men had a great impact on my life and career. I am indebted to each of them for helping to shape my musical life," he says.
Jack joined the US Army and was stationed with the Norad Band in Colorado Springs CO between his undergraduate and graduate studies. During his teaching years, he was a regular sub and extra with the Colorado Symphony, principal with the Denver Chamber Orchestra and Colorado Ballet, and played with the Aries Brass Quintet in Denver and Rocky Mountain Brass Quintet at UNC. He also often participated in clinics and workshops in the Colorado area.
During summers, Jack played in numerous festivals, including the Colorado Festival in Boulder, Central City Opera, Idaho Music Festival in Boise, the Sun Valley Festival, Four Corners Opera in Durango CO, and especially the Peter Britt Music Festival in Jacksonville OR, where he was principal from 1977 until he retired in 2004 and where he appeared as soloist under all three music directors.
While at UNC, Jack recorded the David Amram Concerto for horn and wind orchestra with Gene Corporon conducting. He was a member of Denver Brass, participating in recording numerous CDs and videos, and he recorded Anton Reicha Wind Quintets on Crystal Records with the Westwood Wind Quintet. He was also one of a consortium of hornists (assembled by Thomas Bacon) who commissioned the orchestration and wind ensemble version of Mark Schultz’s Dragons in the Sky.
After retirement in 2004, Jack sold al his instruments and his home and moved with his wife into an RV. "I have discovered there is life after the horn, but I do still miss playing and all the great people I got to work with over the years."
Jack was honored with the Punto Award at the 2008 International Horn Workshop in Denver.
