David Cripps will be presenting a masterclass at the Faculty on Friday, February 28 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Boyd Neel. DAVID CRIPPS
The British-born conductor, hornist and teacher, David Cripps, is one of the most distinguished and experienced performing musicians and pedagogues on the scene today. He began playing the horn at the age of fourteen, was quickly accepted into the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, where he became Principal Horn almost immediately, and made his solo début in London's Royal Festival Hall, performing Mozart's 4th Horn Concerto under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent. He was awarded an Open Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he studied horn and conducting, winning all available prizes. There followed a succession of Principal Horn appointments - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hallé Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, culminating in a ten-year spell as Principal Horn in the London Symphony Orchestra. This period included the music directorships of André Previn and Claudio Abbado, and included guest conducting appearances of Bernstein, Ozawa, Böhm, Kubelik, and countless other luminaries. As well as many solo appearances with all these orchestras, he was involved in such diverse achievements as playing over thirty performances of Mahler's 5th Symphony with Claudio Abbado in UK and on tours around the world, and leading the Horn Section of the LSO in all the original soundtracks of the Star Wars and Superman movies with John Williams. David Cripps was Professor of Horn at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London from 1974 to 1983, and Senior Horn Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester from 1987 to 1996. He has coached and given master-classes all over the world. Additionally he was Brass and Wind Coach for the European Union Youth Orchestra, and was visiting Horn Coach at the Domaine Forget in Québec for three years. Since 1996 he has devoted more time to his conducting career - he has been Resident Conductor of the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra and has made guest conducting appearances with both the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia in London concerts, as well as appearances in Canada, including the Windsor Symphony, Ontario. He has not, however, relinquished his horn-playing or teaching - he made a triumphant return to Oman in January 2002, giving a widely-acclaimed performance of the Strauss 1st Horn Concerto, and he is in residence in Rochester, NY for the early part of 2003, as Associate Professor of Horn at Eastman School of Music. _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn
