Horn
Brass Family
The horn, sometimes called the French horn, is part of the brass family but sits with the woodwinds. In fact, it is kind of like a glue that connects the woodwind family to the brass family. The horn is a long tube coiled up into a circular shape. If you were to unwind it, the tubing would measure approximately twelve feet in length! It is the only brass instrument that you play with your left hand. You keep your right hand inside the end, or bell, of the instrument while your left hand operates the valves.
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Artists
Brian Jensen
Horn
Bruce Hudson
Horn
Brian Jensen joined the Minnesota Orchestra in the fall of 2002 as second horn. Jensen has performed and toured with the Cleveland Orchestra, and has performed with the Seattle Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Before coming to Minnesota, he played for a season with the Utah Symphony alongside his teacher Bruce Gifford. While an active freelance musician in the Salt Lake City area, Jensen also played with the Utah Opera and Utah Festival Opera Company.
Bruce Hudson joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 2011 after serving as fourth horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 2000 to 2011, under Music Directors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel. He has performed, recorded and toured with the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera.
A native of northeastern Ohio, Hudson earned both bachelor and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University, undertaking horn studies with Cleveland Orchestra members Eli Epstein, Richard Solis and Eric Ruske.
Hudson has been adjunct horn faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University and La Sierra University in Riverside, California.