Faculty

Julia Pilant

horn

Julia Pilant received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music as a student of Verne Reynolds, and her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School where she studied with Julie Landsman. After playing principal horn with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, Julia Pilant recently returned to New York City where she performs frequently with the Metropolitan Opera, American Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York City Opera, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and various Broadway shows that include Wicked, Phantom of the Opera and Young Frankenstein. Ms. Pilant has also been newly appointed as the principal horn for the Stamford Symphony Orchestra and has been hired as a horn instructor for The Juilliard School’s Pre-College division. In addition, she plays principal horn for the Saito Kinen and Tokyo Opera Nomori music festivals in Japan (Seiji Ozawa, music director), and has been a principal horn and participant in the Festivale di Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy), Bard, OK Mozart and Santa Fe Chamber music festivals. In 1994, she won the American Horn Competition.
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