Program:

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto 

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

Artists:

James Gaffigan, conductor

Ray Chen, violin

Performing as Guest Principal Horn

Program:

Shostakovich: Festive Overture

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, performed alongside screening of William Kentridge’s Oh To Believe in Another World

Artists:

Keri-Lynn Wilson, Conductor

Frank Huang, Violin

Performing as Guest Principal Horn

Ms. LaBonte will be on faculty for this year’s NYO-USA. Carnegie Hall describes the program in the following way:

“Each summer, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI) brings together the brightest young players from across the country to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), a free program for all participants. Following a comprehensive audition process and a multi-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians, these remarkable teenagers embark on a tour to some of the great music capitals of the world while serving as dynamic music ambassadors.

In summer 2024 the ensemble will gather from July 20 to August 15, and be joined by conductor Marin Alsop and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet on a tour of South America.”

Taking place in Durango, CO, this year’s Festival features a dynamic line-up of events, spanning genres and eras, with an amazing roster of soloists and guest artists joining our Festival Orchestra for four weeks of spectacular performances.

From returning familiar faces to all-new events like our Candlelight Chamber Concert to the return of our free community concert series on our mobile stage, each of this summer’s events will give audiences a memorable experience you’ll want to relive over and over again. We can’t wait to share each of these unforgettable events with you!

Hone your audition chops with a deep dive into horn orchestral excerpts. The Institute will include preparation of standard audition repertoire (both solo and sectional repertoire) for selected passages from horn 1, 2, 3, 4 and assistant parts, and will address score study, sonic modeling, practice strategies, and performance psychology. Each participant will receive 3 private lessons with the faculty, and daily group master classes and mock auditions, culminating with a “final round” of a solo (with piano accompaniment) and a rendition of selected excerpts of the participant’s choice. The Sibley Music Library will serve as an iconic resource to access contemporary and historical recordings of the works studied, as well as a vast repository of scores and complete parts.

This unique seminar and retreat offers an intense daily schedule, and the curriculum is tailored to the needs and goals of each individual participant. Schedule includes private lessons, master classes, horn ensembles, mock orchestral auditions, informal performances, and public concerts. A noncompetitive atmosphere of fun and camaraderie in the idyllic country setting of the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Ms. LaBonte will be serving on the faculty Week 2 but will be performing administrative duties during Week 1.

Program To Include

• Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade for Orchestra

• Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1

• Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra

Artists

• Jakub Hrůša, Conductor

• Hilary Hahn, Violin

Performing as Guest Principal Horn

Faculty:
W. Peter Kurau, Professor of Horn, Eastman School of Music / Principal Horn, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Nikolette LaBonte, Associate Principal/Assistant Principal/Utility Horn, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Elizabeth Freimuth, Principal Horn, Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra.

Enhance your performance skills through FUNdamentals! Solidify your craft to liberate and express your artistry on the horn! This institute will include three private lessons (one with each faculty member) as well as a daily schedule of fundamental sessions, individual coaching on solo pieces, faculty presentations and performances, guest faculty workshops, horn ensemble rehearsals conducted by faculty, and evening sessions focusing on everything from solo repertoire to excerpts to etudes. All this work culminates in two performance opportunities at the end of the week, giving students a chance to perform with our esteemed institute pianists as well as showcase their horn ensemble work from the week!

Taking place in Durango, CO, this year’s Festival features a dynamic line-up of events, spanning genres and eras, with an amazing roster of soloists and guest artists joining our Festival Orchestra for four weeks of spectacular performances.

From returning familiar faces to all-new events like our Candlelight Chamber Concert to the return of our free community concert series on our mobile stage, each of this July’s events will give audiences a memorable experience you’ll want to relive over and over again. We can’t wait to share each of these unforgettable events with you

Outstanding young American instrumentalists form NYO2, a free orchestra program that comes together alongside the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) and NYO Jazz each summer for intensive training and performance opportunities. NYO2 has a particular focus on recruiting musicians from communities underrepresented in classical music. Participating musicians have the opportunity to work closely with top players from American orchestras and conservatories during a residency at Purchase College, State University of New York.

In summer 2023, conductor Joseph Young leads the ensemble in its first-ever international residency and performances in the Dominican Republic with guest soloist Jennifer Koh.

Our mission at KBHC is to provide world-class instruction in all areas of the horn. Our curriculum affords campers the opportunity to immerse themselves in a variety of experiences. We offer sessions in warm-up, fundamentals, orchestral excerpts/auditioning, improvisation/creativity, ear training, natural horn, solo coaching, Alexander Technique, and yoga. In a given week, everyone will receive private lessons, a private Alexander Technique session, daily warm-up instruction, solo opportunities, horn choir, and the opportunity to perform on the final concerts. With our elective system, campers can tailor their experience to their desires. This ability to personalize the camp experience means that campers can attend again and again and create a brand new camp experience for themselves each time they return. Free time in the daily schedule gives campers the chance to enjoy each other’s company and to explore their surroundings. Leisure activities include, but are not limited to hiking, swimming, canoeing, fishing, mountain biking, and other outdoor sports. We encourage all campers to take full advantage of both the horn instruction and the leisure activities.

Ms. LaBonte will be on faculty for Week 2 this year and continues to serve as Assistant Artistic Director year-round!

Artists
James Conlon, conductor
Rodrick Dixon, narrator

Repertoire
HAILSTORK Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed
ALVIN SINGLETON 56 Blows
JOEL THOMPSON To Awaken the Sleeper (BSO Co-Commission)
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

Repertoire
KODÁLY Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, “Peacock”
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

Repertoire
HIGDON blue cathedral
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

José Luis Gomez, conductor
Kelley Nassief, soprano
Emily Marvosh, contralto
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus · Marcela Molina, interim director

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

Performing as Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Oksana Lyniv, conductor
Angel Blue, soprano

Repertoire
JANÁČEK (arr. Talich, rev. Smetáček): Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915
TERENCE BLANCHARD Selections from Fire Shut Up In My Bones
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Fabien Gabel, conductor
Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin

Repertoire
NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY/ADLER Fidl-Fantazye: A Klezmer Concerto
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Program to Include
Courtney Bryan & Tazewell Thompson: Gathering Song (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission)
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race
Adolphus Hailstork: Done Made My Vow, A Ceremony

Performing as Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Jack Everly, conductor
Ashley Brown, vocalist

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Kwamé Ryan, conductor
Pablo Ferrández, cello

Repertoire
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS Become Ocean
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Artists
Mario Venzago, conductor
Louis Lortie, piano

Repertoire
ROSSINI Overture to William Tell
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 97, "Rhenish"

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Marin Alsop, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin

Repertoire
STILL In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Rune Bergmann, conductor
Wordsmith, narrator

Repertoire
STRAVINSKY (narr. Wordsmith) A Soldier’s Tale (World Premiere)
PROKOFIEV Suites from Romeo and Juliet

 Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Shiyeon Sung, conductor

Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon Overture
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)

Performing as Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Tom Borrow, piano

Repertoire
Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Artists
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Thomas Hampson, baritone

Repertoire
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade for Orchestra
MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer
STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony

Performing as Visiting Guest Principal Horn

Held this year at Texas A&M University in Kingsville, the International Horn Symposium is a yearly conference designed to showcase and present leading performers and teachers in the field. During this conference, Nikolette will present a lecture entitled “Borroff on Borroff” on August 4 at 3:30 where she will use Edith Borroff’s own musicological writings to analyze her Sonata for Horn and Piano (1954). She will also perform the first movement from Vitaly Buyanovsky’s Finnish Sonata on August 5 at 10:00am.