Douglas Lundeen won first prize for solo natural horn in the 1987 American Horn Competition. Since then he has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and New Jersey, and has been a recitalist at conferences of the International Horn Society and the International Early Brass Society, including an acclaimed appearance at the IHS conference in Valencia, Spain this July. Dr. Lundeen has played principal horn with original instrument orchestras in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C. and performs on a Courtois Neveu Ainé French orchestral horn from 1820. On the modern horn, he has played principal horn with orchestras in Costa Rica, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, and in Philadelphia with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and on Broadway with "Jekyll and Hyde" and "Aida." He is principal horn of the Princeton Symphony, and has recordings on the Sony, Koch, Newport Classics, Musical Heritage Society, and Centaur labels. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and is Associate Professor of Horn in the Music Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
 
Audio Samples

Divertimento a tre for Horn, Violin and Cello Franz Joeph Haydn Nicholas Music Center, 18 October 2001 Douglas Lundeen, Horn; Matthew Reichert, Violin; and Ole-Eirik Ree, Cello

Prelude, Theme and Variations Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) Barbara González-Palmer, piano Friday, October 8, 1999

Some of my other interests:

• playing ice hockey
• cooking gourmet Italian food