featured artist, Julia Pilant
Julia Pilantis the Assistant Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
and a horn instructor at Bard College Conservatory of Music. Before joining the
Met, Ms. Pilantwas Principal Horn with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for
10 years. She then returned to New York City where she performed frequently
with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York City Ballet, New York City
Opera, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Symphony Orchestra, the
Stamford Symphony, and various Broadway shows. In addition, she has played
principal horn for the Saito Kinenand Tokyo Opera Nomorimusic festivals and
the Mito Chamber Orchestra in Japan under music director
Seiji Ozawa. She has also been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center, as well as a participant in the Classical Tahoe, Affinis(Nagaoka,
Japan), Santa Fe, Mainly Mozart, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest,
Steamboat Strings, Festivaledi Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy), Bard, and OK Mozart
music festivals. In 1994, she won the American Horn Competition. As an
equally enthusiastic music educator, she has given several master classes in
schools and festivals across the country including the Juilliard School,
Interlochen Arts Camp, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Ms.
Pilantreceived her Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music as
student of Verne Reynolds, and her Master's and Doctoral degrees from the
Juilliard School where she studied with Julie Landsman.