| Randall E. Faust is a Professor of Music at Western Illinois University where he teaches Horn and is the hornist with the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and The Lamoine Brass Quintet. For more than two decades, Dr. Faust served on the Summer Horn Faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. The compositions of Randall E. Faust are regularly heard in concerts and recitals at universities and festivals around the country. The works have been discussed in several doctoral theses, including The Horn in Mixed Media Compositions Through 1991 by James Alan Criswell, Doctor of Musical Arts Dissertation, University of Maryland, 1995 and A Performance Guide to the Horn Works of Randall Edward Faust by Alan Franklin Mattingly, Doctor of Music Treatise, Florida State University, 1998. In 1976, the National Gallery Orchestra of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. commissioned his Concerto for Brass Quintet, Percussion, and Strings. The Quartet for Four Horns, commissioned by Philadelphia Orchestra hornist Randy Gardner in memory of Philip Farkas has been recorded for Summit Records. Faust's Symphony for Band was premiered by the Auburn University Band at the Conference of the Alabama Music Educators Association. Further, his University Scenes for Wind Ensemble was the featured musical composition at the Centennial Convocation of Western Illinois University on April 24, 1999. Faust’s Calls of the Night for Horn and Electronic Media was performed by Steven Gross at Weill Recital Hall in New York on February 7, 2001. Randall E. Faust is an ASCAP artist.
Called "A soloist capable of anything on his instrument" by The Los Angeles Times, hornist Andrew Pelletier is a Grammy Award-winning soloist and chamber musician regularly performing across the United States. He was the first-prize winner of the 1997 and 2001 American Horn Competition; America’s only international competition for the horn, and has been in regular demand for artistic residencies and clinics at universities and conservatories. Mr. Pelletier appeared as a soloist and clinician at the International Horn Society Annual Symposia in 1997, 2003 and 2005. As a member of Southwest Chamber Music, he won a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Classical Recording (small ensemble category) for their recording of the chamber music of Mexican composer Carlos Chavez. His solo recital tours have taken him to 16 states, Quebec, Canada and Shropshire, England. Passionate about furthering the art of the horn through new music, Mr. Pelletier has commissioned and premiered numerous works for the horn from noted composers such as Meredith Brammeier, Carson Cooman, Randall Faust, Christina Laberge, Scott Vaillancourt and Howard Yermish. He spent more than seven years as an active freelance performer in Los Angeles and can be heard on film soundtracks like Lethal Weapon 4 and X-Men, as well as on various television movies for the Lifetime and Sci-Fi channels. He has recorded for Cambria Master Classics, Criterion, Delos and MSR Classics. A native of Lewiston, Maine, Mr. Pelletier holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Southern Maine and a Master’s Degree and Doctorate from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. His primary teachers are hornists John Boden and James Decker and trumpeter Roy Poper. Now residing in Ohio, he is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts. He performs exclusively on horns by Gebr. Alexander, Mainz, and mouthpieces by Paxman. |
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