Student News

 

UO Horn Student News

Career updates on current and former UO Horn studio members

 

  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, on your new position as Principal Horn with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra
  • Congratulations, Nathan Banks, BMusEd ’23, on your new job as band director at Chehelam Valley Middle School
  • Congratulations, Justin Stanley, DMA ’22, on your new job as Assistant Professor of Horn, Tennessee Tech University
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, on winning the Assistant Principal Horn position with the Boise Philharmonic
  • Congratulations, Sean Brennan, BM ’19, on your new job teaching applied brass, music appreciation, and rock history at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR
  • Congratulations, Justin Stanley, DMA ’22, on receiving the Outstanding Graduate Brass Performer award and your new position as Horn Instructor ProTem at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance
  • Congratulations, Lauren Griffith, BM ’22, on graduating Summa cum Laude and receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Brass Performer award. Good luck as you move to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to teach English
  • Congratulations, Claire Worsey, current DMA student, for winning the 2nd horn position in the Eugene Concert Orchestra
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, on your new position as Principal Horn of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra
  • Congratulations, Andrew Donahue, BMusEd ’22, on your new job as band director at McLoughlin Middle School in Medford, OR
  • Good luck Cody Kiesling, BMusEd ’20, as you start your Master of Music Education Degree at the University of Oregon in 2022
  • Congratulations, Sean Brennan, BM ’19, on graduation with an MM in horn performance in May, ’22 from Colorado State University, where you served for two years as a teaching assistant
  • Contratulations, Shae Wirth, BM ’18, on graduating with an MM in horn performance from DePaul University in May ’22
  • Congratulations to current DMA candidate, Justin Stanley, on making the Seattle Symphony horn sublist
  • Congratulations, current sophomore, Evan Doster on winning the 2021 Oregon Sinfonietta Concerto Competition Evan will perform Mozart’s Horn Concerto #4 with the Oregon Sinfonietta at their January 23, 2022 concert in Portland, Oregon
  • Congratulations, Amrit Gupta, BM ’18, on graduating with a MM in horn performance from McGill University in May 2021
  • Current Junior, Lauren Griffith, was awarded the prestigious Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar Award in May 2021
  • Current Freshman, Evan Doster, will be attending the Rocky Ridge Summer Program in Estes Park, CO  in June
  • Congratulations, Savanah Campbell, BS in Communications Disorders  and Sciences and General Music ’21 an good luck as you begin your Masters degree at UO in Communication Disorders and Sciences in Fall 2021
  • Justin Stanley, current DMA student, has just released his group, Some Assembly Required’s debut CD. Check it out here
  • Justin Stanley, current DMA student, has just been elected Scholarships Chair of the Northwest Horn Society (Fall 2020)
  • Congratulations, Cody Kiesling, BMusEd ’20, on your new job teaching band at Siuslaw Middle and High Schools
  • Good luck, Sean Brennan, BM ’19, as you begin your MM degree as the horn studio teaching assistant at Colorado State University
  • Congratulations, Justin Stanley, current DMA student, on winning the 2nd horn position with the Newport Symphony
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, on winning the 4th horn position with the Newport Symphony
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, on winning the assistant horn position with the Rogue Valley Symphony for the 2nd time!
  • Congratulations, Andrea Kennard, MM, ’18, on your new position with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as their Artistic and Operations Intern
  • Congratulations, Everett Davis, BMusEd ’19, on your new job teaching band at Oaklea Middle School, Junction City, OR
  • Congratulations, Mara Liechty, MMusEd ’14, on your new job teaching band and choir at H.B. Lee Middle School in Gresham, OR
  • Good luck, Amrit Gupta, BM ’18, as you start your Masters Degree in Horn Performance at McGill University
  • Good luck, Shae Wirth, BM ’18, post-bacc ’19, as you start your Masters Degree in Horn Performance at DePaul University
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell and your group Brass Over Bridges for your recent grant from IntermusicSF
  • Senior Sean Brennan, BM ’19 will spend the summer at Kent/Blossome Chamber Music program
  • Congratulations, Arryn Bess, BMusEd ’15, on joining the US Marines, music enlistment option
  • Congratulations, Kelsi McGlothin, BM ’15, on your one year appointment as Asst. Principal Horn of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra
  • Good luck, Andrea Kennard, MM ’18, as you start your Artist’s Certificate degree at DePaul University in Chicago
  • Junior, Sean Brennan is spending the summer studying at the Eastern Music Festival
  • Congratulations, Rebecca Olason, BM ’12 on your new job as 4th horn in the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra AND your new position as horn instructor at George Fox University
  • Congratulations, Shae Wirth, BM ’18, on winning the Concerto Competition! Shae performed Strauss #1 with the UO Symphony in February, 2018
  • Congratulations, Mariah Hill, BMusEd ’17, on your new position as K-5 music teacher at Sustina Elementary in Anchorage, AK
  • Congratulations, Lexi Thompson, MArts Admin ’17, on your new job Education & Community Engagement Coordinator at Palm Beach Symphony
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14 and graduate of San Francsicso Conservatory. Her brass quintet has been selected to perform throughout the spring of 2017 as part of the San Francisco Symphony’s “Adventures in Music” Program
  • Congratulations, Caitlin Brody, post-baccalareate studies at UO, on joining the US Army Field Band in January, 2017
  • Congratulations, Arryn Bess, BMusEd, ’15, on your new position at Salem-Keizer Public Schools
  • Congratulations, Sarah Van Dusen, MM ’08 on completing your PhD in Education at UC Boulder, and on your new position as Adjunct Music Faculty at CSU-Chico, California
  • Congratulations, Peter Yurkovich, BM, ’08; MM, ’10 on becoming a U.S. Marine and member of the Marine Band, North Carolina
  • Congratulations, Sarah Morrow, MM ’14, on your position as Program Manager at The People’s Music School in Chicago
  • Congratulations, Jarek Bartels, BMusEd ’15, on your new job as K-12 music and band teacher in Moro, Oregon
  • Congratulations, Kelsi McGlothin, BM ’15, on winning the 2nd horn position with the Eugene Concert Orchestra
  • Congratulations, Bret Eason, MMusEd ’15, BMusEd ’14, on your new job as music teacher at North Valley High School, Grants Pass
  • Good luck, Michelle Stuart, MM ’14, MMusEd ’15, as you continue in graduate studies at the Royal College of London
  • Congratulations, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, on getting your MM from San Francisco Conservatory
  • Congratulations, Mara Liechty, MMusEd ’14 on your new position as band director at Junction City, High School
  • Congratulations, Kelsi McGlothin, BM ’15, for winning the 2nd horn position during your senior year in the Oregon Mozart Players, and the Asst. Principal position in the Rogue Valley Symphony
  • Congratulations, Eric Grunkemeyer, MM ’14 for winning the 4th horn position with the Rogue Valley Symphony
  • Sarah Morrow, MM ’14, spent the summer of ’14 touring Europe as principal horn with the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra
  • Congratulations, Mara Liechty, BM performance and education ’13, MMus Eduction ’14, for winning both the collegiate concerto competition and the collegiate excerpt competition at the Northwest Horn Symposium ’14.
  • Congratulations, Susan Anderson, MM ’12, for your new job as a repair tech at Portland Music Company!
  • Congratulations, Kelsi McGlothin, BM ’15, for winning the 2014  Oregon Sinfonietta Concerto Competition.
  • Congratulations, Arryn Bess, BMusEd, ’15, for winning first place during your junior year, in the horn category at DCI International!
  • Congratulations, Erika Rudnicki, B.MusEd ’08, MM ’10, for your new job as Assistant Principal at Federal Way Public Schools, WA.
  • Congratulation, Margarite Waddell, BM ’14, for winning the position of Asst. principal horn, during your junior year, with the Rogue Valley Symphony, spring 2013
  • Bret Eason, BMusEd ’14; MMusEd, ’15, was a member of the National Intercollegiate Band, 2013.
  • Michelle Stuart, MM ’14 student, performed chamber music in Eagle Creek, Oregon, and participated in the 2013 and 2014 IHS symposium.
  • Eric Grunkeymeyer, MM ’14 student, toured Europe with the 2013 Blue Lake Festival Orchestra.
  • Rebecaa Olason, BM ’12, toured Maryland, Michigan and Indiana during the summer of 2013 with her chamber group, Exalt Brass.
  • Margarite Waddell, BM ’14 spent the summer of 2012 at Brevard and the Fresh Inc. Festival.
  • Rebecca Olason, BM ’12, graduated from The Peabody Conservatory in 2014 with her MM in horn performance.
  • Caitlin Brody, Post-Bacchalareate studies at UO,  graduated from UCLA in 2014 with her MM in horn performance.
  • Kai Finlayson, BM cum laude ’10, is a teaching fellow at NYU pursuing a PHD in Musicology.
  • Sarah Van Dusen, MM ’08 and GTF, has graduated with a PHD in Education from UC Boulder.
  • Congratulations, John Dodge, MM ’10, for winning the position of Associate Principal Horn position with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Santiago in Santiago, Chile.
  • Congratulation, Susan Anderson, MM ’12, for winning the position of 4th horn with the Rogue Valley Symphony in the fall of 2011.
  • Congratulations, John Dodge, MM ’10, for winning the UO Concerto Competition in 2010
  • Good luck, Andy Hiserote, BM ’09 as you start your masters degree at New England Conservatory