Artist Biography
Julie Landsman, French Horn
Julie Landsman is currently Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Prior to her appointment at the MET in 1985, she was Co-Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony and Principal Horn of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. While a freelance musician in the New York area, Ms. Landsman appeared regularly with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus. Among her numerous recording credits are performances with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus and Horn soloist on the Wagner Ring Cycle recordings with James Levine and the Metropolitan Orchestra, as well as numerous symphonic and operatic recordings with the MET.
Ms. Landsman's summers have included participation in the Marlboro Music School, Sarasota Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, and the faculty of the Aspen Music School.
She has been a soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Greenwich Symphony, the Rice University Orchestra, the Sarasota Festival Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Festival Chamber Ensemble.
A faculty member of the Julliard School since 1989, she has also taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, Purchase College, and Brooklyn College.
Julie Landsman is a graduate of the Julliard Mussic School where she was a student of James Chambers. She was a recipient of a Naumburg Scholarship. Her early studies were with Howard Howard and Carmine Caruso. Born in Brooklyn, she currently resides in Nyack, New York.