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© Photo courtesy of Thomas Jostlein

Winner of the 2005 Hugo Kauder International Music Competition and the 2003 American Horn Competition, Thomas Jöstlein is in his first season as Third Horn of the Omaha Symphony.

Previously, he was a member of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra (RSO), and was Principal horn of the Kansas City and Honolulu Symphonies.

Thomas has performed as a soloist with the RSO, the Naperville (IL) Municipal Band, the Staunton Music Festival, the Lancaster Festival Orchestra and with members of the Honolulu Symphony.

As part of the 2005 Richmond Festival of Music, he performed the Mozart Horn Quintet, K. 407, described by the Richmond Times-Dispatch as “an elegantly extroverted treatment.” Thomas also played Kerry Turner’s The Scorpion in the Sand, a work Thomas commissioned for his cello-horn-piano group, Trio Cornicello (along with James Wilson and Carsten Schmidt).

In June 2005 he performed in a recital at the 37th International Horn Society Symposium in Alabama, and will perform a recital of works by Hugo Kauder at Merkin Hall in New York City in 2006.

In the summers he teaches and performs with the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina.

Thomas married his wonderful wife Tricia in 2001 in Lexington, Nebraska, and make their home on Happy Hollow Blvd. [email]

Related Links:
American Horn Competition
Richmond Symphony Orchestra
Kansas City Symphony
Honolulu Symphony
Staunton Music Festival
Lancaster Festival Orchestra
International Horn Society
Hugo Kauder
Kerry Turner
Eastern Music Festival (NC)

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