Professional Information

Full name

Brian Hill

Job title

Managing Director

Education

Grinnell College (A.B.). Musicology at NYU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences with James Haar and Jan la Rue. Horn study in Southern California with Waldemar Linder, longtime principal of the Minneapolis Symphony under Ormandy and Mitropoulos

Professional Organizations

Bd. dirs. Music Publishers’ Association of the United States, 1990-2003; Sec. 1993-2003; Chair, Membership Comm. 2003-2008. Mem. Music Library Association / Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association / Music Publishers’ Association Joint Committee, 1988-2002.

Bio

Hill, Brian Eugene, music publishing executive, horn player; b. Los Angeles, Oct. 26, 1950; s. John Sherman and Genevieve (Bastean) H. Student, University of Southern California School of Music, 1968-70; A.B., Grinnell College, 1972; student fellow, Associated Colleges of the Midwest Newberry Library Seminar, 1970-1; student, New York University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 1974-5. Studied horn with Waldemar Linder, 1964-70; theory with Morten Lauridsen, 1968-70; musicology with James Haar, 1974-5. Principal horn (served to SP5), First New York United States Army Band, 1973-5. With Oxford University Press, N.Y.C., 1976-2008. Bd. dirs. Music Publishers’ Association of the United States, 1990-2003; Sec. 1993-2003. Mem. Music Library Association / Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association / Music Publishers’ Association Joint Committee, 1988-2002; Music Library Association Development Committee, 1991-3; American Association of Museums, 1998--; American Federation of Musicians (Local 802), 2000--; Bohemians, 2001--. Performances with the NYU Concert Band (principal horn), the Brooklyn College Conservatory Wind Ensemble (principal), the Greenwich Village Orchestra (sometime principal), the New York Repertory Orchestra (principal, 1994-2007; section, 2008--), the Centre Symphony Orchestra, the Dicapo Opera Theatre, Regina Opera of Brooklyn, the New Amsterdam Symphony, the Broadway Bach Ensemble, The Urban (née Palisades) Brass Quintet, the Music Festival of the Hamptons, the Riverside Orchestra, Hellgate Harmonie, and Wind Quintet Harmattan. Other performances under Leo Arnaud, Hans Beer, Les Besser, Lawrence Christianson, Ingolf Dahl, Lukas Foss, Eckart Preu, William Schaefer, Paul Shelden, Tara Simončič, and Barbara Yahr. Coaching with Leon Fleisher (Harvard), Bonnie Hampton (Ia.), Ann Ellsworth (N.Y.C.), Robert Marsteller (Los Angeles), Mitchell Lurie (Los Angeles), Jane Taylor (N.Y.C.). In 2005 led master classes at the Northeast Iowa School of Music and played the Concertino for Horn & Strings by Lars-Erik Larsson with the Dubuque String Orchestra. Performed live on NTDTV at the Hammerstein Ballroom and Radio City Music Hall. Volunteer East Harlem Tutorial Program, 1990-1999. Home: 535 W 141 St New York NY 10031 212.475.1457.

History

Member for

2 years 15 weeks