Xin H. offers French Horn Lessons, Music Performance Lessons, and Trumpe...
Tutor in Catonsville, MD 21228
Catonsville, MD 21228
NOT ENROLLING
Price starts at: $27
Subjects: Audition Prep, Ear Training, French Horn, Music Performance, Music Theory, Trumpet
Hello, I’m Xin! I am a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and am based in the Baltimore area. I can’t wait to help you with your musical dreams. I am available for in-home, in-studio, and online lessons worldwide.
I have been studying classical horn playing for 10 years and can teach beginning trumpet as well. i can also teach natural horn and audition readiness. I enjoy having a varied studio and am inspired every day by my students’ love for horn playing.
Message me today with a request! Lessons are scheduled to best fit to the student’s schedule when possible.
Professional Biography——
Xin H. is a freelance horn player based in Baltimore, Maryland. She has recently graduated with her BM in Horn Performance from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Professor Peter Kurau and studied under Adjunct Professor Maura McCune-Corvington as well. In addition, she has studied under Larry Williams, Philip Munds, and Anneka Zuehlke. While at Eastman, she was Principal Horn on pieces such as Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and was invited on the 2020 Eastman Philharmonia China Tour.
Xin has performed with groups such as Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as a substitute musician and the Eastman Philharmonia. She has been a fellow at the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, and Tanglewood Music Festival in 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively and will be returning to TMC in 2021. In Winter 2020, she participated in the 52nd annual New York String Orchestra Seminar. She is also a passionate chamber musician, having performed with groups such as the Eastman Brass Guild, Sarasota Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, and various other small chamber groups. In November 2020, she was invited to perform for the MET Opera Orchestra Horn Masterclass.
Her teaching experience includes maintaining a private studio of students ranging from the ages of 9 to 55 and has taught complete beginners who have never touched a brass instrument in their lives to advanced students to trumpet students. She has experience teaching beginner trumpet players as well. She is also a Substitute Teaching Artist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids program, a program modeled after El Sistema that brings music education to inner-city students, and has experience teaching and coaching brass groups.
In addition to horn playing, Xin is very passionate about rabbits, and is dedicated to rabbit rescue, fostering, and rehabilitation and is experienced in special-needs animals. She also enjoys cooking and especially baking and has been raising a 200+ year old sourdough starter that originated in San Francisco.
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- 3 weeks - 17 years
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EDUCATION
Date: April 15, 2021
School: Yale School of Music
Degree: Master of Music (Horn)
Date: August 15, 2014 – June 15, 2016
School: Peabody Preparatory
Degree: Horn
Date: August 15, 2016 – May 15, 2020
School: Eastman School of Music
Degree: Bachelor of Music, Applied Music (Horn)
AFFILIATIONS
Date: August 15, 2016
Name: International Horn Society
Description: Since 1970, The International Horn Society (IHS) has been an organization of people from around the world drawn together with a mutual interest in the horn. We are dedicated to the performance, teaching, composition, research, preservation, and promotion of the horn as a musical instrument.
EXPERIENCE
Date: November 15, 2020
Organization: New York String Orchestra Seminar
Title: Fellow
Description:
Date: September 15, 2020
Organization: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra OrchKids
Title: Substitute Teaching Artist
Description: I am a substitute teaching artist for the BSO’s OrchKids program, an El Sistema-based program in Baltimore City providing free music education.
Date: May 15, 2017
Organization: Ocala Symphony Orchestra
Title: Substitute Horn
Description:
Date: June 15, 2020
Organization: Tanglewood Music Festival
Title: Fellow
Description: I was selected to be a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival for summer 2020. The in-person requirement of this festival needed to be postponed, so I will be attending this festival online! I’m re-invited back for next year, so if you happen to visit the Berkshires in Massachusetts, see you there!
Date: October 15, 2018 – November 15, 2019
Organization: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Title: Substitute Horn
Description:
Date: June 15, 2019 – June 15, 2019
Organization: Sarasota Music Festival
Title: Fellow
Description: I attended the Sarasota Music Festival, a chamber music-focused music festival during the summer of 2019. I had an absolutely amazing time going out of my comfort-zone experiencing all there is to offer in the world of chamber music!
Date: June 15, 2014 – July 15, 2016
Organization: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra OrchKids Summer Program
Title: Brass Intern
Description: I supported group Brass class for the upper and lower levels and gave individual lessons for those who wanted them every week. I mostly taught horn players but I also taught trumpet players.
Date: May 15, 2018 – July 15, 2018
Organization: National Orchestral Institute + Festival
Title: Fellow
Description: I was a fellow with the National Orchestra Institute + Festival at the University of Maryland, College Park. I performed in various community outreach during my time here and gained valuable orchestral playing experience and connections.
LANGUAGES
Language: Chinese
Proficiency: Limited Proficiency
Language: English
Proficiency: Fluent / Native Proficiency