by Kate Warren
Hi! I’m Kate Warren, hornist, music educator, and Social Media Coordinator for the International Horn Society. I am currently the featured horn soloist for the Tony and Emmy award winning Broadway show Blast! as well as a Lecturer in Music at Ocean County College—but you probably know me most from my online music education work on Instagram through @katewarrenmusic.
@katewarrenmusic is a passion project that evolved from practice accountability to the free-flowing knowledge base it is now. As a young hornist whose family could not afford lessons, most of my early knowledge came from free online resources such as hornmatters.com and the archived interviews and articles on the IHS website. My goal now is to contribute just as much knowledge to others as I needed then.
Currently, I’ve got a fascinating series going that looks at the inner workings of the aperture (literally) using an endoscopic camera inside a 3D printed mouthpiece. I’m testing all sorts of things from register and articulation shifts to lip trills, pedal notes, and multiphonics. If this type of pedagogy experiment sounds interesting to you, I encourage you to explore my account!
I’m very excited for our upcoming gathering at James Madison University—it will be my very first IHS Symposium! I’ll be documenting the conference for IHS’s social media channels as well as conducting informal mini-interviews of attendees. My goal is to hear from as many different voices in our horn community as I can, so if you see me floating around, please come say hello and ask to be interviewed .