Richard Seraphinoff

 

 

 

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Richard Seraphinoff holds degrees in horn performance from Wayne State University and Indiana University.  Among his horn teachers are Lowell Greer, Philip Farkas, Meir Rimon, Francis Orval, Michael Hatfield, and Myron Bloom and Eugene Wade. In September of 1986 he was appointed to the faculty of the Indiana University School of Music, where he teaches modern valve horn, natural horn, a doctoral course in brass literature, and chamber music.  Mr. Seraphinoff was the winner of the 1984 Erwin Bodky Early Music Competition and the 1981 Heldenleben Horn Competition. As a modern horn player he has performed with the Detroit Symphony and Toledo Symphony Orchestras and the Michigan Opera Theater.  As a Natural Hornist he has performed with virtually every Baroque and Classical orchestra in the U.S., including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Grande Bande, Concert Royal, and Mozartean Players of New York, the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, the Portland Baroque Orchestra of Oregon, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, The City Musick and Basically Bach of Chicago, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco, Opera Lafayette of Washington DC, and the Atlanta baroque orchestra.  He has appeared as soloist at the Aston Magna Festival, with the Vancouver CBC Orchestra, Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra, and with La Stagione and Ensemble Metamorphosis in Germany. He has given lectures and Master Classes and appeared as guest recitalist at both Early Music and modern brass workshops in the United States and Europe, has written articles for the Historic Brass Society Journal, the Horn Call, and several other journals, and has appeared on numerous recordings.  Mr. Seraphinoff is also a well-known maker of historical reproductions of Baroque and Classical Natural Horns.  With trumpet maker Robert Barclay he has developed a week-long course in historical brass instrument making that has been offered in the US and Europe 17 times since 1994.  Since 1993 he has given summer workshops in Natural Horn history and performance at Indiana University, which are attended by horn players from around the world.

Web site : http://www.seraphinoff.com/

 

Recordings

 

Cornucopia - French Chamber Music for Horn and Strings

F. Duvernoy: Quartet No 2 in D minor for horn, violin, viola and cello

L.F. Dauprat: Quintet No 1 in F major op. 6 for horn and string quartet

A. Reicha: Grand Quintet in E major op. 106 for horn and string quartet

Focus 942

 

Richard Seraphinoff, horn

Cynthia Roberts and Judson Griffin, violins

Andrea Andros, viola

Allen Whear, cello

Jesse Watras, bass

 

recorded in 1995

Musique de salon - 19th Century French music for horn and piano

 

L.F. Dauprat : Mélodie pour cor alto et cor basse avec piano op. 25C

C. Saint-Saëns : Romance op. 36

J.F. Gallay : Onzième solo pour cor avec piano op. 52

Three vocalises, performed in the style of Joseph Meifred, taken from Méthode pour le cor chromatique ou à pistons (Paris, 1841)

Panseron : Andantino

Bordogni : Andantino

Bordogni : Allegro vivace

J.F. Gallay : Grand caprice op. 32 No 12 for solo horn

G. Rossini : Prélude, thème et variations pour cor avec piano

 

 

Jeffrey Snedeker, horn

Richard Seraphinoff, horn (Dauprat)

Marylin Willbanks, piano

 

recorded in 1995

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

 

Calender

Natural Horn Workshop with Richard Seraphinoff from June 11 to June 16, 2007

in Clouse's Lounge, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University in Bloomington, U.S.

This workshop is open to professionals, students, teachers, and advanced amateurs interested in the natural horn.  The schedule will include a daily master class, an ensemble session, and a lecture.  Each student will receive two private lessons during the week.  An informal concert will conclude the workshop.  For participants who do not own an instrument, a limited number of horns will be available.

For more information about the content of this course contact Richard Seraphinoff (email or telephone +1.812.855.8715)