Anthony Halstead

 

 

 

Horn player Anthony Halstead was born in Manchester, attending Chetham’s School and the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he studied piano, horn, organ and composition.  His teacher at College was Sydney Coulston, a distinguished contemporary of Dennis Brain, who played Principal horn in the Hallé and the BBC Northern Orchestras.  After leaving college Tony took several ‘refresher’ lessons with Horace Fitzpatrick and Myron Bloom.  Subsequently he studied the harpsichord with George Malcolm and conducting with Michael Rose and Sir Charles Mackerras.  As a horn player he has held Principal positions with the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert, The Hanover Band and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.  Tony made his first solo CD in 1986, recording Weber’s Concertino on the natural horn, with The Hanover Band, for the Nimbus Record Company.  Other solo CDs include the Concertos by Joseph and Michael Haydn, and two separate recordings, six years apart, of the Mozart Concertos, with The Hanover Band and The Academy of Ancient Music.  On the modern horn he has recorded the Britten Serenade with the American tenor, Jerry Hadley.  Tony Halstead now enjoys a varied career as a conductor and director/harpsichordist, as well as being a renowned horn soloist and teacher of international repute.  In addition to making regular visits as a guest professor and examiner at many of the UK’s conservatoires, he enjoys private teaching and chamber-music coaching.

 

Recordings

Mozart - The Horn Concertos

 

Concerto in E flat major K 447

Concerto in E flat major K 417

Rondeau in E flat major K 371 (reconstr. J. Humphries)

Concerto in E flat major K 495

Concerto in D major K 412 (Rondo: reconstr. J.Humphries)

Rondo in D major K 514 (completed F.X. Süssmayr)

Decca 443 216-2

 

Anthony Halstead, horn (solo)

The Academy of Ancient Music

conducted by Christopher Hogwood

 

Andrew  Clark (K 495), Christian Rutherford (K 495, 417, 371), Roger Montgomery (K 417, 371), horns

 

recorded in 1993

Internationales Naturhorn Festival Essen 1993

 

J.S. Bach: Concerto # 1 in F Major BWV 1046 (Wilhelm Bruns, Oliver Kersken)

III. Allegro

J.D. Zelenka: Capriccio # 3 in F Major ZWV 184 (Andrew Joy, Rainer Jurkiewicz)

I. Andante - Allegro - Andante

G.F. Telemann: Suite in F Major for 2 horns, strings and continuo (Claude Maury, Piet Dombrecht)

IV. Menuet. Moderato

V. Bourrée. Presto

W.A. Mozart: Quintet in E flat Major KV 407/386c for horn, violin, 2 violas and cello (Ab Koster)

I. Allegro

L.v. Beethoven: Sextet in E flat Major op. 81b for 2 horns and string quartet (Lowell Greer, Francis Orval)

III. Rondo. Allegro

F. Ries: Sonata op. 34 in F Major (Ulrich Hübner)

III. Rondo. Allegro

F.A. Hoffmeister: Quintet in E flat Major for horn and string quartet (Jan Schroeder)

II. Rondo

L.-F. Dauprat: Sonata in F Major op. 2 for horn and piano (Michel Garcin-Marrou)

I. Allegro moderato

L. Mozart: Sinfonia da caccia for 4 horns, strings and continuo (Jan Schroeder, Ulrich Hübner, Wilhelm Bruns, Richard Seraphinoff)

I. Allegro

J. Haydn (Rosetti): Concerto in E flat Major for 2 horns and orchestra (Lowell Greer, Thomas Müller)

I. Allegro maestoso

M. Haydn: Concerto in D Major for horn and orchestra (Anthony Halstead)

I. Larghetto

J. Haydn: Symphony in D Major # 31 "Horn signal" (Wilhelm Bruns, Oliver Kersken, Michel Gasciarino, Tilman Schärf

I. Allegro

Internationales Naturhorn Festival Essen 1993

 

Wilhelm Bruns, Oliver Kersken, Andrew Joy, Rainer Jurkiewicz, Claude Maury, Piet Dombrecht, Ab Koster, Lowell Greer, Francis Orval, Ulrich Hübner, Jan Schroeder, Michel Garcin-Marrou, Richard Seraphinoff, Thomas Müller, Anthony Halstead, Michel Gasciarino, Tilman Schärf, horns

La Stagione Frankfurt, conducted by  Michael Schneider

Ensemble Les Adieux

Brandenburgisches Consortium

Robert Hill, piano

 

recorded in 1993

Mozart - Horn Concertos and E Major Fragment

 

Concerto in E flat Major K 417

Concerto in E flat Major K 495

Fragment in E Major KV 494a (reconstr. J. Humphries and R. Goodman)

Concerto in E flat Major K 447

Concerto in D Major K 412 (Rondo: reconstr. J.Humphries)

Nimbus Records NI 5104

 

Anthony Halstead, horn (solo)

The Hanover Band

conducted by Roy Goodman

 

Christian Rutherford, Mary Knepper, horns

 

recorded in 1987

 

Calender

39th International Horn Symposium July 8-14, 2007 in La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland

with Alessio Allegrini, Javier Bonnet, André Cazalet, Michel Garcin Marrou, Ivo Gass, Heiner Krause, Festival hornquartett, Thomas Müller, Stephan Ruf, Samuel Seidenberg, Arkady Shilkloper, Horn section Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Dohr, Radek Baborak, Frank Loyd, Tony Halstead, Junji Takemura, Tsutomu Moruyama, Eliz Erkalp, Claude Maury, Teunis van der Zwart, Raúl Díaz, etc.

an entire day devoted to the natural horn on the 12th