8:38 a.m., March 9, 2010----The University of Delaware will host the Northeast Horn Workshop, as well as concerts featuring world-class orchestra musicians, from Friday through Sunday, March 12-14.

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The Northeast Horn Workshop comes to the UD campus in a celebration of everything related to the orchestral horn, or “French” horn, as it is commonly known.

In the year since John David Smith, associate professor in the Department of Music, and the UD Horn Studio were selected to host this year's Northeast Horn Workshop, there has been a steady stream of activity to secure performers and ensembles for recitals, seminars and master classes that typically comprise this annual event.

The workshop will take place in the Amy E. du Pont Music Building and the Roselle Center for the Arts, beginning at noon on Friday, March 12, and concluding at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 14.

Smith, a highly active orchestral and chamber musician and Juilliard graduate, has drawn upon his extensive professional associations with a number of outstanding artists in Philadelphia, New York and beyond to arrange this year's lineup of performers and presenters.

Featured guest artists for the workshop include the horn section of the Philadelphia Orchestra -- Jennifer Montone, principal; Jeffrey Lang, associate principal; Daniel Williams, Jeffry Kirschen, Denise Tryon and Shelley Showers -- as well as Karl Pituch, principal horn of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Registrants, regional artists and presenters for this year's workshop represent nearly every state in the Northeast, as well as Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

Friday's music events include an opening concert at 8 p.m. in Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts, which will feature the Delaware Symphony Horn Section, the UD Horn Ensemble, the Zinkali flute, horn and piano trio, soloists Angela Cordell and Wallace Easter and an ensemble of horn players from several current and recent Broadway shows.

Saturday's musical highlights include a recital by members of the Philadelphia Orchestra horn section at 1:30 p.m. in Gore Recital Hall, a 4:30 p.m. Regional Artists Recital in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building, and an 8 p.m. concert in Gore Recital Hall featuring guest artist Karl Pituch in a solo recital with Julie Nishimura.

The workshop concerts will conclude Sunday with a 2:30 p.m. closing concert in Gore Recital Hall that will feature winners of the weekend's solo competition as well as guest artists Karl Pituch and Denise Tryon.

All recitals and concerts are open to UD faculty and students free with their ID card, and to the general public for $5. For complete schedule and artist information, see the Northeast Horn Workshop Web site.

After the workshop, Smith will be performing this spring with the Metropolitan Opera in performances of Wagner's Flying Dutchman, with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and at the International Horn Symposium in Brisbane, Australia, with Del'Arte, the UD faculty woodwind quintet.

In addition, the UD Horn Studio will present a free concert on Thursday, May 13, in Loudis Recital Hall.