Brian Horner

Brian Horner is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music where he studied with Donald Sinta. His 15-year university teaching career has included appointments at Middle Tennessee State University, Austin Peay State University, the University of Tennessee, and Western Kentucky University, and he is co-author of Playing & Teaching The Saxophone – A Modern Approach (Oxford University Press – 2023). Horner has appeared at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, New York City's Mannes College of Music, and the Glimmerglass Opera's Young Artist recital series in Cooperstown, NY, and has performed with the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and the Gateway Chamber Orchestra. He has premiered more than a dozen new works for saxophone, and his recordings with pianist Elizabeth Avery include Saxophone Music of M. Zachary Johnson--Live At Steinway Hall, and Serenade – Music for Saxophone & Piano, and garnered a cover feature in Saxophone Journal.