Kerry Turner - the Horn Player

Photo: Phillipe HurlinKerry Turner, a native of Texas, studied horn and composition at Baylor University and graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship Award he moved to Europe to study the horn with Hermann Baumann. Since then he has held the position of principal horn of the Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne and associate principal and third horn of the Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Shortly after joining the American Horn Quartet he was awarded the Third Prize and Bronze Medal at the 1987 Prague Spring International Horn Competition. Since then he has been heard as soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra of Radio-Tele-Luxemburg, Saarbrucken Radio Orchestra, South-West German Philharmonie, Munich Bach Orchestra and Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt as well as being recitalist and chamber musician all around the world.

Concerto Repertoire:

Franz Anton Rosetti - Concerto in D minor
W.A. Mozart - Concertos #2 and 4
Franz Joseph Haydn - Concerto #1 in D
Franz Danzi - Concerto in A Major
Luigi Cherubini - Sonata 1 and 2 for Horn and String Orchestra
Kurt Atterberg - Concerto in A minor Op. 28
Carl Maria von Weber - Concertino in E Major
R. Strauss - Concerto #1 and #2
Georg Phillip Telemann - Concerto in D Major
Reinhold Gliere - Concerto Op. 91
J.W. Kalliwoda - Introduction and Rondo Op. 51
Gordon Jacob - Concerto for Horn and Strings
Lars Erik Larsson - Concertino Op. 45 no.5
Camille Saint-Saens - Morceau de Concert Op. 94
Ottmar Schoeck - Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra Op. 65
Kerry Turner - Concerto for Low Horn and Orchestra