Stephen Stirling - Horn
Stephen Stirling is a renowned horn soloist. Since studying at the Royal Northern College of Music with Ifor James and later with Julian Baker, he has worked mostly in the rather rarefied world of chamber music. He enjoys an enormously varied career travelling all over the world, particularly relishing playing in unusual and far flung places.He has broadcast concertos on BBCTV and Radio 3, and appeared with orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestra of St Johns, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the batons of Richard Hickox, Sir Neville Marriner, Heinz Holliger and Ivan Fischer. His recordings of the complete Mozart Horn Concertos with the City of London Sinfonia are constantly broadcast on Classic FM. He has also recorded the virtuosic Double Horn Concertos by Vivaldi. Gary Carpenter has just completed a concerto for him and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, due to be recorded in April 2005.
Stephen has a world-wide reputation as a chamber musician being in constant demand at festivals in the UK and abroad. He is a member of Endymion Ensemble, The Fibonacci Sequence, Capricorn and the New London Chamber Ensemble. His many critically acclaimed CDs include the first recordings with Endymion, of York Bowen’s horn sonata and his beautiful Quintet for Horn and Strings, and Mozart's entire output for wind ensemble with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. His second recording of the Brahms Horn Trio, with the Florestan Trio, was nominated for a 'Gramophone' award and in the USA, 'Fanfare' described it as the equal of any recording whether modern or 'Golden Age'.
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