Jennifer Montone

Jennifer Montone joined The Philadelphia Orchestra as principal horn in 2006, and is currently on the faculties of The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. She was formerly the principal horn of the Saint Louis Symphony, associate principal horn of the Dallas Symphony, third horn of the New Jersey Symphony, and performer/faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Named the Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year in London in 1996, she has since won many solo competitions and awards, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006 and a 2013 GRAMMY Award for her recording of Penderecki’s Horn Concerto entitled Winterreise. She has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, WDR Cologne, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She performs regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Classical Tahoe, Strings Festival, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is a regular visiting coach at the New World Symphony. A native of northern Virginia, Montone was in the National Symphony Fellowship Program, where she studied with Edwin Thayer, and was a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School as a student of Julie Landsman.