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Top players: top
jobs
The fact that many leading
professional players use PHC mouthpieces proves the success of the
design:
| | Elspeth Dutch | Principal Horn, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, UK |
| | Frank Lloyd | Virtuoso horn player and Professor of Horn at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, Germany |
| | Angela Barnes | 2nd Horn, London Symphony Orchestra |
| | Hugh Seenan | Session player and Horn Professor, Guildhall School of Music, London |
| | John Ryan | Principal Horn, London Philharmonic Orchestra |
| | Richard Bissill | Principal Horn, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |
| | Jeffrey Bryant | Horn Professor, Guildhall School of Music, London |
| | Laurence Davies | Principal Horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London |
| | Christopher Parkes | Principal Horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London |
| | Kathryn Saunders | 2nd Horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London |
| | Phil Woods | 3rd Horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London |
| | Andrew Fletcher | 4th Horn, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London |
| | Nigel Black | Principal Horn, Philharmonia Orchestra and Head of Brass, Royal College of Music, London |
| | Martin Owen | Principal Horn, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London |
| | Laurence Rogers | Principal Horn, Hallé Orchestra, UK |
| | Jonathan Lipton | 4th Horn, London Symphony Orchestra |
| | David Posner | Principal horn, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec |
| | Reinhard Zmoelnig | 2nd Horn, Volksoper Vienna |
| | Roger Montgomery | Principal Horn Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique and 3rd Horn, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |
| | Andrew Clark | Principal Horn, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Professor of Natural Horn, Royal Academy of Music, London |
| | John Thurgood | Principal Horn, English National Opera and English Chamber Orchestra |
| | Robert Ashworth | Principal Horn, Opera North, Leeds, UK |
| | Anthony Halstead | Soloist & former Principal Horn, The Academy of Ancient Music |
Quite apart from the
endorsement of the above, amongst many other players, Anthony Halstead's
position as a leading exponent of the natural horn has given him an insight
into a very convincing historical precedent for the use of larger mouthpieces.
In 1810 Domnich recommended an internal cup diameter of 18mm for Ist horn
players, together with one of 20mm for 2nd horn players, and as early as 1800
Duvernoy had recommended a cup diameter of 19mm for the 2nd horn.
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