Dylan Skye Hart You may not know Dylan Skye Hart by name, but you have heard him play horn. Proud Latino and Los Angeles native, Dylan is a busy freelance musician. Depending on the day, he can be found recording for video games, motion pictures, theme parks, or television shows.
He has recorded films with many great composers including John Williams, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Randy Newman, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, and Alan Silvestri. Some movie titles on which Dylan can be heard playing principal horn include: Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Jungle Cruise, Onward, Call of the Wild, Ready Player One, Deadpool 2, Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi, and The Jungle Book. Dylan has also recorded albums and appeared on television with music legends Lady Gaga, John Legend, Michael Bublé, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Wu-Tang Clan, M83, Gladys Night, Yo-Yo Ma, and The Beatles. His solos can also be heard on his namesake Bob Dylan’s albums Shadows in the Night and Fallen Angel.
Dylan has toured with John Williams’ Star Wars in Concert, Eden Espinosa of Wicked, and The Who, doubling on horn, trumpet, trombone, Wagner tuba, and mellophone. In the orchestral world, Dylan is principal horn of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and San Diego Symphony. Dylan is also a member of the Los Angeles Horn Quartet and Modern Brass Quintet.
As an alumnus of the University of Southern California, he studied with Vincent DeRosa, James Thatcher, and Richard Todd. Dylan currently teaches horn at California State University, Long Beach. When not performing, Dylan, a “foodie”, enjoys cooking, playing ice hockey and soccer, golfing, and hanging out with his wife and fellow hornist Annie Bosler.
He has recorded films with many great composers including John Williams, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Randy Newman, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, and Alan Silvestri. Some movie titles on which Dylan can be heard playing principal horn include: Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Jungle Cruise, Onward, Call of the Wild, Ready Player One, Deadpool 2, Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi, and The Jungle Book. Dylan has also recorded albums and appeared on television with music legends Lady Gaga, John Legend, Michael Bublé, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Wu-Tang Clan, M83, Gladys Night, Yo-Yo Ma, and The Beatles. His solos can also be heard on his namesake Bob Dylan’s albums Shadows in the Night and Fallen Angel.
Dylan has toured with John Williams’ Star Wars in Concert, Eden Espinosa of Wicked, and The Who, doubling on horn, trumpet, trombone, Wagner tuba, and mellophone. In the orchestral world, Dylan is principal horn of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and San Diego Symphony. Dylan is also a member of the Los Angeles Horn Quartet and Modern Brass Quintet.
As an alumnus of the University of Southern California, he studied with Vincent DeRosa, James Thatcher, and Richard Todd. Dylan currently teaches horn at California State University, Long Beach. When not performing, Dylan, a “foodie”, enjoys cooking, playing ice hockey and soccer, golfing, and hanging out with his wife and fellow hornist Annie Bosler.
Dr. Annie Bosler wears many hats in her career as a Los Angeles freelance horn player. She has toured with John Williams' Star Wars in Concert and with Josh Groban, and performed on Dancing with the Stars, The Ellen Show, and PBS's Live from Lincoln Center. Annie shared the stage with Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney on CBS's The Beatles: The Night That Changed America. She performed with Ariana Grande and Chance the Rapper at The Grammy’s, P-Diddy at The American Music Awards, and Wu-Tang Clan at Coachella. Annie can be heard on many motion pictures, video games, theme park rides, and TV shows as well as seen playing horn on Fox's TV show Glee.
Named a TED Educator in 2017, Dr. Bosler co-wrote How to practice…for just about anything. The video went viral receiving over 50 million views on social media. In May of 2015, Annie also gave a TEDx talk about facial rehabilitation and brain plasticity entitled Elissa’s Song: The Power of Face Exercises. She specializes in wind pedagogy, specifically teaching facial anatomy and symmetry as it relates to the embouchure, injury rehabilitation, creative ways to educate beginning students, and audition preparation for high school and college students.
Having taught in the Colburn School for Performing Arts for nearly a decade. Annie has a 100% track record of helping students get into a school of their dreams. She co-authored College Prep for Musicians a book for high school students, parents, teachers, and counselors. Also, Annie produced and directed 1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Years, a one-of-a-kind documentary film about the history of Los Angeles studio musicians told through the eyes of the legendary Hollywood horn players. In 2022, Annie has enjoyed working as a writer for Tianjin Juilliard’s Music Discovery curriculum and is excited to publish a book called In Tune: Exercises to Improve a Musician’s Performance and Quality of Life.
Annie is professor of horn at California State University, Northridge. She served as the secretary/treasurer of the International Horn Society Executive Board for five years. In addition, she cohosted the largest International Horn Symposium, bringing over 1,000 musicians to Los Angeles in 2015. Annie holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University where she played varsity tennis, and a MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. She is married to studio hornist Dylan Skye Hart. She has a love for teaching, writing, producing film projects, Instagram, agriculture, traveling, playing tennis, and watching college football. For more information, visit 1M1hollywoodhorns.com, IHSLA2015.com, and collegeprepformusicians.com.
Named a TED Educator in 2017, Dr. Bosler co-wrote How to practice…for just about anything. The video went viral receiving over 50 million views on social media. In May of 2015, Annie also gave a TEDx talk about facial rehabilitation and brain plasticity entitled Elissa’s Song: The Power of Face Exercises. She specializes in wind pedagogy, specifically teaching facial anatomy and symmetry as it relates to the embouchure, injury rehabilitation, creative ways to educate beginning students, and audition preparation for high school and college students.
Having taught in the Colburn School for Performing Arts for nearly a decade. Annie has a 100% track record of helping students get into a school of their dreams. She co-authored College Prep for Musicians a book for high school students, parents, teachers, and counselors. Also, Annie produced and directed 1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Years, a one-of-a-kind documentary film about the history of Los Angeles studio musicians told through the eyes of the legendary Hollywood horn players. In 2022, Annie has enjoyed working as a writer for Tianjin Juilliard’s Music Discovery curriculum and is excited to publish a book called In Tune: Exercises to Improve a Musician’s Performance and Quality of Life.
Annie is professor of horn at California State University, Northridge. She served as the secretary/treasurer of the International Horn Society Executive Board for five years. In addition, she cohosted the largest International Horn Symposium, bringing over 1,000 musicians to Los Angeles in 2015. Annie holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University where she played varsity tennis, and a MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. She is married to studio hornist Dylan Skye Hart. She has a love for teaching, writing, producing film projects, Instagram, agriculture, traveling, playing tennis, and watching college football. For more information, visit 1M1hollywoodhorns.com, IHSLA2015.com, and collegeprepformusicians.com.
Jennifer Montone
Grammy Award Winner Jennifer Montone has been hailed by the New York Times for her
"flawless horn solos... and warm and noble sound". As Principal Horn of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, and a world acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and teacher, she has been
on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School since joining the
orchestra in 2006.
Previously the Principal Horn of the Saint Louis Symphony and Associate Principal Horn
of the Dallas Symphony, Ms. Montone was an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University, performer/faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and coaches on occasion at the New World Symphony. She was third horn of the New Jersey Symphony from 1997-2000, and has performed as a guest artist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Saint Paul ChamberOrchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Ms. Montone regularly performs as a soloist, with orchestras such as the PhiladelphiaOrchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the National Symphony, the Polish National Radio Symphony, the Warsaw National Philharmonic, among others. Her recording of the Penderecki Horn Concerto, "Winterreise" with the Warsaw National
Philharmonic won a 2013 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Classical Compendium". Other recordings include "Jennifer Montone Performs"- her first solo cd, "Still Falls the Rain"- works of Benjamin Britten, "Gabrieli" by the National Brass
Ensemble, "Philadelphia Orchestra, Tchaikovsky and Ewald"- featuring the orchestra's principals brass quintet, and Song of Shinobeu"- works of Haruka Watanabe. Ms. Montone made her Carnegie Weil Hall solo recital debut on October 22, 2008. She
has enjoyed appearing as a featured artist at many International Horn Society workshops, and as a soloist and collaborator with artists such as Emmanuel Ax, Eric Owens, Christoph Eschenbach, Shmeul Ashkenazi, and Joseph Silverstein, and David Soyer,
among many others.
As a chamber musician Ms. Montone performs with the Chamber Music Society ofLincoln Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, National Brass Ensemble, Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Bravo Vail
Chamber Music Festival,Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Spoleto Italy Chamber Music Festival, and the Marlboro Music Festival.
Ms. Montone is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Julie Landsman, legendary pedagogue and former principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera. In May 2006 Ms. Montone was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She
is also the winner of the 1996 Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year Award in London, England. A native of northern Virginia, Ms. Montone studied with Edwin Thayer, principal horn of the National Symphony, in the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program. She is married to double bass player, Timothy Ressler, and immensely enjoys spending time with her two young sons, Max and Felix.
Grammy Award Winner Jennifer Montone has been hailed by the New York Times for her
"flawless horn solos... and warm and noble sound". As Principal Horn of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, and a world acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and teacher, she has been
on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School since joining the
orchestra in 2006.
Previously the Principal Horn of the Saint Louis Symphony and Associate Principal Horn
of the Dallas Symphony, Ms. Montone was an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University, performer/faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and coaches on occasion at the New World Symphony. She was third horn of the New Jersey Symphony from 1997-2000, and has performed as a guest artist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Saint Paul ChamberOrchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. Ms. Montone regularly performs as a soloist, with orchestras such as the PhiladelphiaOrchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the National Symphony, the Polish National Radio Symphony, the Warsaw National Philharmonic, among others. Her recording of the Penderecki Horn Concerto, "Winterreise" with the Warsaw National
Philharmonic won a 2013 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Classical Compendium". Other recordings include "Jennifer Montone Performs"- her first solo cd, "Still Falls the Rain"- works of Benjamin Britten, "Gabrieli" by the National Brass
Ensemble, "Philadelphia Orchestra, Tchaikovsky and Ewald"- featuring the orchestra's principals brass quintet, and Song of Shinobeu"- works of Haruka Watanabe. Ms. Montone made her Carnegie Weil Hall solo recital debut on October 22, 2008. She
has enjoyed appearing as a featured artist at many International Horn Society workshops, and as a soloist and collaborator with artists such as Emmanuel Ax, Eric Owens, Christoph Eschenbach, Shmeul Ashkenazi, and Joseph Silverstein, and David Soyer,
among many others.
As a chamber musician Ms. Montone performs with the Chamber Music Society ofLincoln Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, National Brass Ensemble, Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Bravo Vail
Chamber Music Festival,Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Spoleto Italy Chamber Music Festival, and the Marlboro Music Festival.
Ms. Montone is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Julie Landsman, legendary pedagogue and former principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera. In May 2006 Ms. Montone was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She
is also the winner of the 1996 Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year Award in London, England. A native of northern Virginia, Ms. Montone studied with Edwin Thayer, principal horn of the National Symphony, in the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program. She is married to double bass player, Timothy Ressler, and immensely enjoys spending time with her two young sons, Max and Felix.
Contributing Artists
Dr. Dan Nebel (IHS Representative for Colorado) is currently the principal hornist of the Monterey Symphony, Horn Instructor at Colorado State University Pueblo, and keyboardist at Arvada United Methodist Church in Arvada, CO. He served as a bandsman with the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West for five years touring extensively throughout the Western United States. He currently freelances throughout Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and California. A longtime pianist in church organist, comma Neville has directed music and accompanied services for seven congregations over the last seventeen years, and currently runs a private teaching studio in the Denver Metro area.
Douglas Hall (Horn maker- McCracken Horns - and IHS representative for California (South)) Doug Hall, has retired from the San Diego Symphony after 36 years, in the 4th horn chair. Before SDSO Doug was George McCracken’s apprentice horn builder in Virginia. Doug plays a piston change horn that he created with George.
Graduate of SF conservatory, MM U of A. BM Tucson, Red Wing band instrument repair tech. Other: Personnel manager SD Symphony and Opera. LA Phil Institute with Leonard Bernstein. Snowbird summer fest.
Graduate of SF conservatory, MM U of A. BM Tucson, Red Wing band instrument repair tech. Other: Personnel manager SD Symphony and Opera. LA Phil Institute with Leonard Bernstein. Snowbird summer fest.
Stasia Forsythe Siena (Alexander Technique) Trained as a classical singer, Stasia Forsythe Siena has a special interest in the Alexander Technique and music. She holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a master’s degree from Indiana University. She received her Alexander Technique teaching certification from Joan and Alexander Murray at the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique and was appointed Co-Director of UCAT’s teacher training program in 2017.
Stasia has served on the music faculties of Indiana University, Milliken University, DePauw University, and the University of Illinois School of Music. She is currently an Artist Faculty member at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, where she teaches group classes in the Alexander Technique to musicians and actors. Over the past twenty-five years, Stasia has taught the Alexander Technique in university, conservatory, and master class settings throughout the United States and abroad. She also spends two weeks every summer on the faculty of Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hampshire. In addition to teaching, Stasia enjoys playing the alphorn, travel, yoga, spending time with her adult children, and long walks with her dogs. She is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher (RYT) and a certified Scolio-Pilates practitioner and an active member of AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique). Stasia splits her time between Champaign, Illinois and Michigan City, Indiana.
Ryan Richmond (Laskey mouthpieces) Ryan Richman is the Vice President of Eastman Music Company.
He has worked in the music business for 27 years in various roles including performing, teaching, sales, and repair.
His career began in the repair shop of his local music store cleaning rental returns and helping with sales and rental events.
During his time in music retail, Ryan served as a Music Education Representative for many years, assisting instrumental music teachers throughout the state of Utah. Along with his work in music retail, Ryan has performed in many musical venues as a woodwind doubler, taught private woodwind lessons, and taught clinics across the country.
Ryan joined Eastman in 2011 as a Sales Manager and has had the privilege to serve as the Sales Manager for 30 states in the U.S. He also filled the roles of Wind Product Manager and Director of Wind Product Development before being appointed Vice President of the company in 2016. As Vice President, Ryan oversees many aspects of business including sales management and product development for Eastman and the other brands in the Eastman family.
Ryan resides in Utah with his wife Rochelle, who is the Director of Bands at Kaysville Jr High, and their three daughters Emma (Flute), Hannah (Clarinet), and Stella (Bassoon).
Stasia has served on the music faculties of Indiana University, Milliken University, DePauw University, and the University of Illinois School of Music. She is currently an Artist Faculty member at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, where she teaches group classes in the Alexander Technique to musicians and actors. Over the past twenty-five years, Stasia has taught the Alexander Technique in university, conservatory, and master class settings throughout the United States and abroad. She also spends two weeks every summer on the faculty of Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hampshire. In addition to teaching, Stasia enjoys playing the alphorn, travel, yoga, spending time with her adult children, and long walks with her dogs. She is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher (RYT) and a certified Scolio-Pilates practitioner and an active member of AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique). Stasia splits her time between Champaign, Illinois and Michigan City, Indiana.
Ryan Richmond (Laskey mouthpieces) Ryan Richman is the Vice President of Eastman Music Company.
He has worked in the music business for 27 years in various roles including performing, teaching, sales, and repair.
His career began in the repair shop of his local music store cleaning rental returns and helping with sales and rental events.
During his time in music retail, Ryan served as a Music Education Representative for many years, assisting instrumental music teachers throughout the state of Utah. Along with his work in music retail, Ryan has performed in many musical venues as a woodwind doubler, taught private woodwind lessons, and taught clinics across the country.
Ryan joined Eastman in 2011 as a Sales Manager and has had the privilege to serve as the Sales Manager for 30 states in the U.S. He also filled the roles of Wind Product Manager and Director of Wind Product Development before being appointed Vice President of the company in 2016. As Vice President, Ryan oversees many aspects of business including sales management and product development for Eastman and the other brands in the Eastman family.
Ryan resides in Utah with his wife Rochelle, who is the Director of Bands at Kaysville Jr High, and their three daughters Emma (Flute), Hannah (Clarinet), and Stella (Bassoon).
Dr. Derek Wright (Houghton Horns) Dr. Derek J. Wright, a hornist in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, plays 3rd horn with the award-winning Dallas Winds and in the West Texas Symphony. He has performed with several major orchestras including the Fort Worth Symphony and the Dallas Symphony. Dr. Wright is also a co-owner of Houghton Horns. He has contributed to the design of horns and mouthpieces for the Verus brand and frequently speaks on instrument design and acoustics at various educational institutions.
Sadie Glass is an active educator and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, where she is the Brass-Percussion Program Director, teaches modern and historic horn lessons, music theory, and brass methods. This year, she is part of an inaugural program through Alpensong to integrate alphorn fundamentals into brass pedagogy. Sadie has also held teaching positions at Pacific Union College, Chabot College, and El Sistema music programs. During the summer, she is on faculty at the renowned Cormont Horn Camp, formerly Kendall Betts Horn Camp. As a performer, Sadie is a member of the Monterey Symphony and has performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including with the San Francisco Symphony. Specializing in early music, Sadie performs as a soloist and orchestral hornist with many period-instrument ensembles, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque, American Bach Soloists, and Apollo’s Fire. Outside of music, Sadie enjoys spending time with her family, loves to travel, and has discovered a new passion for the alphorn.
Michelle Rimoli (Rising Talent horn choir and IHS representative for New Mexico)
Johnathan Snyder (Advanced / Professional horn choir and IHS representative for Nevada) Jonathan Snyder is a freelance horn player and instructor of theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who earned his doctorate (DMA) at UNLV under the direction of Professor Bill Bernatis. He completed his Master of Music in Horn Performance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At California Lutheran University, Jonathan received his Bachelor of Arts in Music in both Horn Performance and Music Composition. He has performed with the Topanga Symphony, Santa Maria Philharmonic, Colburn Wind Ensemble, Gold Coast Wind Ensemble, Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, Desert Winds, and for various university ensembles and stage productions. He has performed internationally at Hornclass in Prague and has toured with the Kirkkonummi Chamber Orchestra of Finland. Currently, Jonathan performs with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Southern Nevada Symphony, Nevada Chamber Orchestra, and was a founding member of the Red Rock Wind Quintet; the graduate wind quintet at UNLV. Currently, Jonathan performs with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Nevada Chamber Orchestra, Pentagogical Brass, and Vegas City Opera. In 2019, he released a CD which includes the first ever recording of Concerto for Horn and Orchestra by Lithuanian composer Balys Dvarionas. He can also be heard on Shea Arender’s 2022 release The King Symphonic with the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra. He was also a founding member of the Red Rock Wind Quintet; the graduate wind quintet at UNLV.
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Anita Miller (Host, Adjunct Professor of Horn and Acting Brass Coordinator – Utah Valley University) is an accomplished hornist, educator, and studio musician, currently serving as Adjunct Professor of Horn and Acting Brass Coordinator at Utah Valley University. She is Principal Horn with the Utah Chamber Artists, a member of the Ballet West Orchestra, Sinfonia Salt Lake, member of Aspen Winds, and performs regularly with the Utah Symphony as well as other Salt Lake area groups and recording studios.
Before coming to Utah, Ms Miller spent many years as a freelance hornist in New York City. There, she was a member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Principal horn for the Connecticut Grand Opera, the BMI Big Band, New Hampshire Music Festival, and performed with the New Jersey Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony, New York Big Brass, and various chamber groups, and regional orchestras. Ms Miller was also an in-demand Broadway pit musician who, at height of her Broadway career, covered 26 different horn books concurrently. Out of all these shows, however, Beauty and the Beast will always be dear to her heart because the brass section there gave Anita the nudge she needed to go out on a date with trumpet player Joe Reardon—and they have been together ever since.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Miller made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with FIVE: A Woodwind Quintet. Her additional chamber credits include collaborations with Music Amici, New York Big Brass, Solid Brass, and the Harmonie Ensemble. Her diverse recording work spans orchestral, chamber, jazz, and commercial genres.
Ms. Miller’s dedication to arts education includes teaching positions at Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, New York’s Fieldston School and the Midori Foundation outreach program where she mentored and taught underserved students in the New York area. here in Utah, Anita continues her commitment to educational outreach through both the A.R.T.S Inc and NOVA Music Project programs. She is also a recipient of a Chamber Music America Rural Residency Grant, through which she delivered educational concerts and workshops across rural Maine.
At UVU, she is known for her student-centered teaching, artistic leadership, and passion for preparing the next generation of horn players and chamber musicians.
Before coming to Utah, Ms Miller spent many years as a freelance hornist in New York City. There, she was a member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Principal horn for the Connecticut Grand Opera, the BMI Big Band, New Hampshire Music Festival, and performed with the New Jersey Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony, New York Big Brass, and various chamber groups, and regional orchestras. Ms Miller was also an in-demand Broadway pit musician who, at height of her Broadway career, covered 26 different horn books concurrently. Out of all these shows, however, Beauty and the Beast will always be dear to her heart because the brass section there gave Anita the nudge she needed to go out on a date with trumpet player Joe Reardon—and they have been together ever since.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Miller made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with FIVE: A Woodwind Quintet. Her additional chamber credits include collaborations with Music Amici, New York Big Brass, Solid Brass, and the Harmonie Ensemble. Her diverse recording work spans orchestral, chamber, jazz, and commercial genres.
Ms. Miller’s dedication to arts education includes teaching positions at Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, New York’s Fieldston School and the Midori Foundation outreach program where she mentored and taught underserved students in the New York area. here in Utah, Anita continues her commitment to educational outreach through both the A.R.T.S Inc and NOVA Music Project programs. She is also a recipient of a Chamber Music America Rural Residency Grant, through which she delivered educational concerts and workshops across rural Maine.
At UVU, she is known for her student-centered teaching, artistic leadership, and passion for preparing the next generation of horn players and chamber musicians.
The Utah Horn Club serves as the central gathering point for French‑horn enthusiasts across the state. As the Utah chapter of the International Horn Society (IHS), it hosts a vibrant community of players—from students to seasoned professionals—who come together to learn, perform, and celebrate all things horn.
Over the years, the Club has built a rich tradition of signature events, most notably, its annual Utah Horn Days. Each year, the Utah Horn Club partners with a local university to cohost this event (utah, Valley University, Snow College, BYU, and the university of Utah), that feature renown faculty, and guest professionals for masterclasses, horn choirs, ensemble performances, panel discussions, and vendor showcases.
The Club also embraces Utah Alphorn Day, a unique summer gathering—often at locations like Stewart Falls (Provo, UT)—where members hike and play horn in extraordinary natural acoustics. During the holiday season, members participate in horn caroling, performing festive choral music in horn ensembles at local venues.
In essence, the Utah Horn Club builds community around the horn—offering musical growth, fellowship, and unforgettable performance opportunities for horn players throughout Utah and the wider region.
Over the years, the Club has built a rich tradition of signature events, most notably, its annual Utah Horn Days. Each year, the Utah Horn Club partners with a local university to cohost this event (utah, Valley University, Snow College, BYU, and the university of Utah), that feature renown faculty, and guest professionals for masterclasses, horn choirs, ensemble performances, panel discussions, and vendor showcases.
The Club also embraces Utah Alphorn Day, a unique summer gathering—often at locations like Stewart Falls (Provo, UT)—where members hike and play horn in extraordinary natural acoustics. During the holiday season, members participate in horn caroling, performing festive choral music in horn ensembles at local venues.
In essence, the Utah Horn Club builds community around the horn—offering musical growth, fellowship, and unforgettable performance opportunities for horn players throughout Utah and the wider region.
International Horn Society
The International Horn Society's mission is to connect artists of all ages and backgrounds across the world, and to promote horn playing, education, and fellowship through events, publications, awards, and new compositions. Members receive a copy of The Horn Call magazine (published three times per year), digital access to all past Horn Calls, discounts for horn event registration, access to scholarships and competitions, funding for commissioning new works for horn, and unlimited networking opportunities with other hornists worldwide! Additional benefits for Utah members include participation in local horn events, subscription to a biannual newsletter, and optional listing in our private teacher database!
Membership is open to hornists of any age and ability; rates start at $32 per year.
The International Horn Society's mission is to connect artists of all ages and backgrounds across the world, and to promote horn playing, education, and fellowship through events, publications, awards, and new compositions. Members receive a copy of The Horn Call magazine (published three times per year), digital access to all past Horn Calls, discounts for horn event registration, access to scholarships and competitions, funding for commissioning new works for horn, and unlimited networking opportunities with other hornists worldwide! Additional benefits for Utah members include participation in local horn events, subscription to a biannual newsletter, and optional listing in our private teacher database!
Membership is open to hornists of any age and ability; rates start at $32 per year.
