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ROLAND PANDOLFI JOINS HORN FACULTY OF OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
April 3, 2001--Robert Dodson, dean of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, announces the appointment to Oberlin's faculty of Roland Pandolfi, principal horn player with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Pandolfi joins Oberlin as professor of horn, effective July 1, 2001.
"Roland Pandolfi brings to Oberlin a great performing and teaching legacy," says Dodson. "We are delighted to welcome him to our faculty."
Pandolfi has held the chair of principal horn with the St. Louis Symphony since 1966; he is retiring at the end of the current season. From 1962 until 1966 he was principal horn with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
He has appeared as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony in performances of Mozart's 2, 3, and 4 horn concertos; Richard Strauss's Concerto No. 1; Bernhard Heiden's Concerto for Horn; Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings; and Schumann's Concertstucke. Teaming with Barry Tuckwell, he performed Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Horns; and, with Herman Bauman, the Concerto for Two Horns by Haydn.
Besides dozens of recordings with the St. Louis Symphony, Pandolfi's discography includes Saint-Saens's Morceau de Concert with the Banff Camerata for Summit Records; and, for VOX: the Moss Music Group, Mozart's Quintet for Horn and Strings and Quintet for Piano and Winds; and Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Winds.
Pandolfi has served on the faculties of Webster University, Northwestern University, the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and Southern Illinois University. He has taught master classes and performed at workshops sponsored by the International Horn Society, and, for the Southeast Horn Workshop in 1994, Barry Tuckwell joined with him for a workshop on Beethoven's Sextet in E-flat Major. He taught and performed at the Banff Arts Festival at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada for 14 seasons. He also taught and performed at the Affinis Seminar in Iida, Japan and at the Orford Festival in Quebec, Canada.
He attended the New England Conservatory of Music and has studied privately with Arnold Jacobs.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, founded in 1865, is the nation's oldest continuously operating conservatory, and the only major music school in the country linked with a preeminent college of arts and sciences. The Conservatory offers majors in performance, composition, music education, music theory, electronic and computer music, jazz studies, music history, and a double major in piano performance and vocal accompanying. There are more than 400 public concerts on campus each year--most of them free--including performances by student ensembles, faculty members, and performances and master classes by guest artists.
Media Contact: Marci Janas
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