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Biography
Professor of Music (Horn) at Fresno State
College from 1947 to 1987, James Winter (b. 1919)
served as Editor of The Horn Call
(1972-76), Advisory Council member (1972-76 and
1980-86), and President of the International Horn
Society (1983-86). He was principal horn of the
Fresno Philharmonic from 1954-87 and assistant
conductor of that ensemble from 1980. He was also
principal horn and soloist of Music from Bear
Valley (1970-82), and a guest artist and lecturer
at several international horn workshops.
In addition to his Suite for a Quartet of Young
Horns and Canon for Two Horns, he wrote numerous
periodical articles and an important pedagogical
text: The Brass Instruments (Boston: Allyn
and Bacon, 1964, 2nd edition 1968).
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