French horn player Felix Klieser is one of today’s leading instrumentalists, who recently finished a two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Felix Klieser is a German professional ...

The French horn. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers. But don’t let ...

Compare for yourself. Here's what the finale of Brahms' Horn Trio sounds like on the natural (valveless) horn. John Zirbel, principal horn player for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, recently joined ...

If you’ve seen a Hollywood movie in the past 30 years, chances are excellent that you’ve heard the majestic horn playing of James Thatcher. As one of the industry’s busiest French horn musicians, ...

A new study has found further evidence that French horn players are one of the most at-risk groups of developing noise-induced hearing loss among professional orchestral musicians. Professional French ...

Loud music can lead to hearing loss. But it's not just rock musicians and their fans who are at risk. In classical orchestras, horn players are particularly vulnerable to hearing damage from the tunes ...