Featured Artists
The featured artists at the 2005 Southeast Horn Workshop include renowned soloist and chamber musician David Jolley, Stefan Jezierski from the Berlin Philharmonic, William Caballero, principal horn of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Jacek Muzyk, principal horn of the Buffalo Philharmonic. Other artists will be announced soon.
David Jolley
David Jolley has been acclaimed as one of his generation’s premier horn players. The New York Times described him as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician of “remarkable virtuosity
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A frequent soloist with orchestra, Mr. Jolley premiered Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra with the Rochester Philharmonic and performed it in Carnegie Hall with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Highlights of David Jolley’s 2003–2004 season include performances with the Florence Symphony Orchestra; at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; and as a member of the Fleisher-Jolley-Tree-O. His 2002–2003 season included performances of Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1 with the Florida Philharmonic and Waterbury Symphony Orchestra. Other recent orchestral engagements include the Detroit Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, London-Ontario Symphony of Canada, Israel Sinfonietta and Kamerata Chamber Orchestra of Athens.
His recital appearances throughout the United States include performances at New York’s 92nd Street Y and Alice Tully Hall. He is a frequent guest artist with the Musicians from Marlboro, Guarneri String Quartet, Beaux-Arts Trio, Kalichstein-Larado-Robinson Trio and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Other collaborations include performances with Andre Watts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds and with Murray Perahia at the 92nd Street Y in the Beethoven Piano and Winds Quintet.
Mr. Jolley is a member of Windscape, the Areopagitica Brass Trio (with Chris Gekker, trumpet, and David Taylor, trombone), and performs as a member of the Fleisher-Jolley-Tree-O with Leon Fleisher and Michael Tree. He has performed at summer festivals such as Dartington Hall in England, Kuhmo and Mustasaari in Finland, Madeira Bach in Portugal, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Marlboro, Bravo! (Colorado), Chamber Music Northwest and the Aspen Festival. He is currently on the faculty of Music Academy of the West.
Mr. Jolley’s numerous recordings include over two dozen CDs with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, including Mozart Concerti for Deutsche Grammophon, and a series of solo albums—Adagio and Allegro, Sonatas and Trios of Alec Wilder and Villanelle—for the Arabesque label. His recording of the Strauss Concerti with the Israeli Sinfonietta was released by Arabesque in the Fall 1999.
A native of Los Angeles, Mr. Jolley received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School.
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Stefan Jezierski
Raised in North Carolina and a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Stefan Jezierski attended the Cleveland Institute of Music to study with Myron Bloom. He won the CIM concerto competition in 1975 and then, at the age of twenty, debuted as horn soloist with members of the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall with Mozart’s Horn Concerto K. 447. After graduation from CIM, he was appointed first horn of the Kassel State Opera in Germany. In January 1978, he was selected by Herbert von Karajan to play high horn with the Berlin Philharmonic, a post that he still holds. Mr. Jezierski was the first American to be invited to join the Berlin Philharmonic. His reputation soared when Mr. Karajan celebrated him as one of the top horn players in the world.
For the past two decades, Mr. Jezierski has worked with virtually all of the world’s leading conductors including Bernstein, Böhm, Karajan, Kleiber and Solti, and, more recently, Abbado and Rattle. He has frequently performed as soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, America and Asia. Mr. Jezierski is a founding member of both the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin and the Haydn Ensemble Berlin, both of which are primarily comprised of musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic. He has toured Asia several times as soloist with the Philharmonic Kammermusik Collegium.
William Caballero
William Caballero joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as Principal Horn in May of 1989, coming from the Principal Horn post with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Previously he had been a member of l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the Hartford Symphony. He also has played and been a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Houston Grand Opera, l'Opéra de Montréal, the Opera Company of Boston, and the New England Ragtime Ensemble. Summer Festivals include the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the Bellingham Music Festival of Bellingham, Washington.
Born in New Mexico and reared in Wisconsin, Mr. Caballero graduated from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Richard Mackey and Thomas Newell. Presently he is a faculty member at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also was an artist teacher at Carnegie Mellon University and at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas. He has presented master classes throughout North America, including the Orford Center for the Arts in Québec, Canada; the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida; the Cleveland Institute of Music; the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia; and the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland. He also is a member of the artist board of the Summit Brass (an ensemble consisting of top brass players from major U.S. orchestras) and performs regularly with them.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Caballero has collaborated with Joseph Silverstein, André Previn, and Christoph Eschenbach and appeared at the St. Barts Music Festival in the French West Indies and the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine. He also performs regularly with the Sewickley BACHfest in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass. In the fall of 1998 the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass released their first compact disc, J.S. Bach, The Art of Fugue. Their third recording, a compact disc of holiday music was released in the fall of 2003.
His recent solo and performance opportunities have included the first horn recital in the 75 year history of the Pittsburgh Y Music Society, a recital in Boston at the Northeastern Horn Conference hosted by the Boston Conservatory, performing live on NPR’s Performance Today with pianist Orli Shaham and violinist Philip Setzer, and participating in the Tokyo International Music Festival with the Super World Orchestra.
In May of 1992 he performed the World Premiere of the Benjamin Lees Concerto for Horn and Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the baton of then Music Director Lorin Maazel. Following the performances at Heinz Hall, he performed the Lees Concerto in Spain, Germany, and England while on tour with the Orchestra. In MAy of 1996, Mr. Caballero recorded the concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony for New World Records.
Previous solo performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony include the Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Maazel and Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2 with Maestro André Previn. In December of 2002, William performed the Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Maestro Stanisław Skrowaczewski and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. In January of 2004 William performed the Schumann Konzertstück for four horns with his colleagues under the baton of Maestro John Elliot Gardiner.
William Caballero holds the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Anonymous Foundation Principal Horn Endowed Chair.
Mr. Caballero resides in Sewickley, Pennsylvania with his wife Kathleen, principal cellist with the Pittsburgh Opera, and their two daughters and son, Margaret, Elinor, and William Jr.
Jacek Muzyk
Jacek Muzyk is the newly appointed principal horn of the Buffalo Philharmonic. He joined the Dallas Symphony’s horn section in 2003 as a one-year associate principal horn. He studied at The Juilliard School of Music, The Mannes College of Music and the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland. He has been a member of the Capella Cracoviensis, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Cracow Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Polish Radio Orchestra and Houston Grand Opera. He has also performed with the Chicago Symphony, the Houston Symphony, Sinfonia Helvetica, Camerata Sweden and the Danish Chamber Players, among other groups. He has given recitals and performed as soloist with orchestras in Europe, America and Japan. Muzyk appears on several CDs of chamber music as well as many recordings of the orchestral repertoire.