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Douglas Hill's books
are classics of horn
pedagogy; his playing,
compositions, and
teaching are aimed at
extending students' and
colleagues'
imaginations; and he has
served the horn
community as soloist and
clinician and IHS
Advisory Council member
and President.
Doug was born in 1946 in
Lincoln, Nebraska. His
varied musical interests
(including jazz bass,
and composition) were
largely initiated and
nurtured by his junior
high school music
teacher, Kenneth Freese.
During his high school
years, he solidified
many of his horn playing
techniques while
studying from Jack
Snider, Professor at the
University of Nebraska.
He earned a BM and a
Performer's Certificate
at Indiana University,
studying horn with
Philip Farkas, and later
an MM from Yale
University with Paul
Ingraham, with whom he
performed often in the
New York City and
Joffrey Ballet
Orchestras.
Doug
has served as professor
of horn at the
University of Wisconsin
since 1974. He began
there performing and
recording with the
Wingra Woodwind Quintet
and now performs and
records with the
Wisconsin Brass Quintet.
After graduation from
IU, Hill played solo
horn with the Rochester
Philharmonic, New York
City Ballet,
Contemporary Chamber
Ensemble of New York,
Aspen Festival
Orchestra, Henry Mancini
and Andy Williams
Orchestras, and for 30
years with the Madison
Symphony. He was an
original member of the
Spoleto Festival Brass
Quintet and has
performed with the New
York and American Brass
Quintets.
Previous faculty
appointments include
Oberlin Conservatory,
Aspen Music School,
Conservatories of Music
in Beijing and Shanghai,
the Asian Youth
Orchestra, Wilkes
College, University of
South Florida, Sarasota
Music Festival, Yale
Summer School at
Norfolk, the Asian Youth
Orchestra in Hong Kong,
and the Kendall Betts
Horn Camp. He recently
served as the Wind and
Brass Adjudicator and
Chair of the Classical
Music Division for the
National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts,
as a judge for the
Fischoff and Coleman
Chamber Music
Competitions, and on the
judging panel for the
first International Horn
Competition held in
Toulon, France. Hill has
appeared as soloist and
clinician throughout the
US, Germany, France, and
China, including
numerous international,
national, and regional
brass and horn workshops
and symposia.
Doug's extensive
publications include
Collected Thoughts on
Teaching and Learning,
Creativity, and Horn
Performance (2001),
Extended Techniques
for the Horn
(1981/1996),
Introducing the
Instruments: Horn Home
Helper (2005),
Warm-ups and Maintenance
Sessions for the Horn
Player (2002),
High Range for the Horn
Player (2005),
From Vibrato to Trills
to Tremolos for the Horn
Player (2004),
dozens of articles,
scores of original
compositions and
pedagogical etude books,
the educational
video/DVD
Hill on
Horn, and three
solo recordings and a
variety of orchestral
and chamber ensemble
recordings including
Thoughtful Wanderings:
Compositions by Douglas
Hill, featuring
alumni, faculty,
students, and staff of
the UW School of Music.
As a frequent recipient
of research grants, he
has studied unrecorded
horn and piano
repertoire, extended
techniques, hand horn,
extemporization, and
compositional techniques
and applications.
Douglas Hill served
on the IHS Advisory
Council from 1976-82 and
1994-97. He was elected
IHS President for three
years beginning in 1978.
During his tenure the
society created its
Articles of
Incorporation,
solidified its
Constitution and Bylaws,
developed the
Communications Network
of regional coordinators
and area
representatives, hired
its first executive
secretary, fully
developed its
composition contest and
commissioning projects,
and tripled its
membership.
Hill
was elected an IHS
Honorary Member in 2008
at the 40th
International Horn
Symposium, where -
appropriately - he
performed, served as
moderator for four panel
discussions on pedagogy,
led his university horn
choir in concert, and
heard his
Set of Songs and Dances
performed by Gail
Williams and his
Jazz Soliloquies
performed by Bernhard
Scully just hours after
the honor was announced.
His principal horn
related compositions
include:
Ten
Pieces for Two Horns
(1969)
Five
Pieces for Three Horns
(1970)
Trio Set
for Horns (1971-72)
Character Pieces for
Solo Horn (1973-74)
Jazz Soliloquies
for Solo Horn (1978)
Abstraction for
Solo Horn and Eight
Horns (1980)
Jazz
Set for Solo Horn
(1985)
Thoughtful
Wanderings for
Natural Horn
Percussion/CD (1992)
Song Suite in Jazz
Style for Horn and
Piano (1993)
A
Place for Hawks for
Voice, Horn and Strings
(1994-95)
Shared
Reflections for
Four Horns (1994)
Reflections for Horn
Alone (1996)
Timepieces for
Brass Quintet (1997)
Elegy for Horn Alone
(1998)
Elegy for
Violin and Horn
(1998)
Americana
Variations for Four
Horns (1998)
Scenes from Sand County
for Mixed Nonet and
Narrator (1999)
Tribal Images for
Brass Quintet and
Percussion (2000)
The Glorious
Privilege of Being
for Horn Quintet (2000)
Oddities for
Four Horns (2004)
Oddities for
Solo Horn (2004)
Greens/Blues/Reds
for Horn and String
Quartet (2005)
Greens/Blues/Reds
for Solo Horn (2005)
Americana Variations
for Brass Quintet (2005)
A Set of Songs and
Dances for
Clarinet, Horn, Vibes
and String Bass (2006)
A Set of Songs and
Dances for Horn Alone
(2006)
Recollections for
Horn Octet (2007)
Three Moods for
Woodwind Quintet (Horn
feature) (2005/2008)
Abe Lincoln's Song
Book for Horn Trio
with Dialogue
(And
for horn with various
brass, strings, or
winds)
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