BRICE ANDRUS

Brice Andrus joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1966 while studying at Georgia State University. He has been Principal Horn with the ASO since 1975. In addition to making frequent solo appearances with the orchestra, including the Second Concerto of Richard Strauss in 2000, he maintains an active chamber music schedule. Andrus has toured with the Summit Brass and was a featured soloist at the 25th and 31st International Horn Society Symposia. This Spring will mark the release of his recording with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra of Mahler Symphony No. 2; previously released Mahler recordings include Symphony No. 1 and Symphonies Nos. 4-10 on the Telarc label. He has also recorded the Brahms Trio with the Emory Chamber Players. In 1999, he was the recipient of the prestigious Punto Award from the International Horn Society. He studied horn with Forrest Standley and Dale Clevenger and he currently teaches at Emory University.

JEROME ASHBY

Jerome Ashby, Associate Principal Hornist of The New York Philharmonic, grew up in New York City where he began violin lessons in grade school as an alternative to shop class because "music classes had girls." At age 13, he was mesmerized by the sound of the horn but his teachers told him the instrument was not for him. Undaunted, he spent the summer studying and returned to school to win first chair in the orchestra and to qualify for entrance to the High School of Performing Arts. He studied privately with former Philharmonic Principal Hornist James Chambers and, during his student years at the Juilliard School, supported himself playing in the pit of two Broadway shows, Fiddler on the Roof and The King and I. Prior to his Philharmonic appointment in 1979, he was Principal Hornist with the Symphony of the University of Mexico, during which time he met his wife, Patricia. The couple lives in New Jersey and has three daughters: Elizabeth, Juanita, and Violeta. Ashby is on the faculty of the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music.

DAVID JOLLEY

American hornist David Jolley has been acclaimed as one of his generation's most notable soloists, described by The New York Times as a hornist of "remarkable virtuosity." Gramophone magazine hailed him as "a soloist second to none." His performances have taken him all over North America, to South America, Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, and Japan. A chamber artist of unusual sensitivity and range, Jolley has frequently collaborated with such groups as the Kallichstein-Loredo-Robinson Trio, the Guarineri Quartet, the American String Quartet, The Beaux Arts Trio, Musicians from Marlboro, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Jolley is a member of the new virtuoso woodwind ensemble Windscape, the Areopagitica Brass Trio, and the Fleischer-Jolley-Tree Trio. He is also hornist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Jolley's lively interest in enlarging the solo horn literature has led to many wonderful new works being written for him, including Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra, Twilight Music by John Harbison, Dust by George Tzontakis, and George Perle's Duos for Horn and String Quartet. Future new solo works will include Tzontakis's Horn Concerto (Spring 2001), and a concerto by Edgar Meyer (Fall 2001). Summer festivals at which Jolley has appeared include the Marlboro Festival, Bravo! Colorado, Music from Angel Fire, the Aspen Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Dartington Hall Festival in Great Britain, the Kuhmo and Mustasaari Festivals in Finland, and the Epidavros Festival in Greece. Jolley's numerous recordings include over two dozen CD's with Orpheus and three other solo recordings with the Arabesque label. His most recent recording includes his moving performance of the Strauss Cello Sonata, Op. 6 transcribed for horn by the late Samuel Sanders. Jolley is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, Queens College, and the North Carolina School of the Arts.