DAVID JOLLEY
French Horn

David Jolley has been acclaimed as one of his generation's most notable horn players. The New York Times described him as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician of "remarkable virtuosity," and Gramophone Magazine has hailed him as "a soloist second to none."

A frequent soloist with orchestra, Mr. Jolley recently premiered Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Horn and String orchestra with the Rochester Philharmonic and performed it in Carnegie Hall with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Other recent orchestral engagements include the Detroit Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, London Ontario Symphony of Canada, Israel Sinfonietta and Kamerata Chamber Orchestra of Athens.

His recital appearances throughout the United States include performances at New York's 92nd Street "Y" and Alice Tully Hall. He is a frequent guest artist with the Musicians from Marlboro, Guarneri String Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, Kalichstein-Larado-Robinson Trio and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Other recent collaborations include performances with Andre Watts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds and with Murray Perahia at the 92nd Street "Y" in the Beethoven Piano and Winds Quintet.

Mr. Jolley is a member of Windscape, the Areopagitica Brass Trio (with Chris Gekker, trumpet, and David Taylor, trombone), and Trio Solaris (with Daniel Phillips, violin, and Samuel Sanders, piano). He has performed at summer festivals such as Dartington Hall in England, Kuhmo and Mustasaari in Finland, Madeira Bach in Portugal, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, Marlboro, Bravo! (Colorado), Chamber Music Northwest and the Aspen Festival.

The first hornist ever to be chosen for the Affiliate Artist Residency Program, David Jolley has also won the Concert Artists Guild Award, the Heldenleben International Horn Competition, a 1982 Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund Grant and a prestigious Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mr. Jolley's numerous recordings include over two dozen CD's with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, including Mozart Concerti, for Deutsche Grammophon, and a series of solo albums ­ Adagio and Allegro, Sonatas and Trios of Alec Wilder and Villanelle ­ for the Arabesque label. His recording of the Strauss Concerti with the Israeli Sinfonietta was released by Arabesque in the Fall 1999.

Mr. Jolley received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School. A resident of New York, he currently serves on the faculties of the Manhatten School of Music, Mannes College of Music, Hartt School of Music and Queens College-CUNY.