Angela DeBoer, horn
_Welcome to the horn area of the MTSU brass website! Any student considering study at the college level will want to know about the teacher on their instrument as this professor will have more influence on your musical development that any other faculty member they encounter. Prospective students should get to know the teacher of their instrument well before making a decision on where to attend college. To start helping you know more about me and what I've done musically and with the horn, I have shared my biography.
Associate Professor of Horn at Middle Tennessee State University, Angela DeBoer is also an active performer on the horn, holding positions with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and the Huntsville Sympony. She also works regularly in Nashville with the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera and the Nashville Ballet as well as recording in the studios around Nashville. DeBoer is also an active chamber musician, performing chamber music as a member of the Stones River Chamber Players and other MTSU Faculty ensembles. Additional creative activity will find her performing on the Baroque and Classical natural horns; instruments on which she presents lectures and masterclasses at workshops and schools around the country as well as performing on these instruments with the Music City Baroque and has also performed with the Atlanta Baroque. Since 2011, DeBoer has been on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.
Prior to her work in Tennessee, DeBoer was a member of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and worked with the Tulsa Ballet and Tulsa Opera. She was also active in the freelance community in and around Chicago for many years, performing with ensembles such as the Milwaukee, Grant Park, Elgin, South Bend, Northwest Indiana, Duluth-Superior and Illinois Symphonies as well as with, Chicago Sinfonietta, Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Opera Theatre and the Illinois and Fort Wayne Philharmonics. She also spent several seasons as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a group with which she also appeared as soloist. She has attended several competitive music festivals including Tanglewood, National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, Sarasota Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West. She was also a semi-finalist at the 2007 International Horn Competition of America.
DeBoer received her Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University in Chicago, studied in the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music and received her Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include Jonathan Boen (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Principal Horn), Gail Williams (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Associate Principal Horn, retired), David Krehbiel (San Francisco Symphony, Principal Horn, retired) and Jerome Ashby (New York Philharmonic, Associate Principal Horn, deceased).
She has been an active teacher, serving in the faculty of the Barthelmes Conservatory on Tulsa as well as maintaining a private studio in the Chicago area for several years. She taught lessons as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University and has presented masterclasses, instructional chamber music and solo performances in the public schools of Illinois, New York and Minnesota as well as in the City Colleges of Chicago and at the Amadeus Piano Festival.
DeBoer has had the opportunity to work under the batons of many leading conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Previn and Pierre Boulez. She has also had numerous occasions to play the Wagner Tuba and has performed works by Bruckner, Stravinsky, Wagner and Rouse on the instrument. In addition to her classical playing, DeBoer has recorded with jazz legend Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra; a project which earned a coveted five-star review from Downbeat magazine.
A native of Minnesota, DeBoer is a horse lover and enjoys all types of horse related disciplines, but none more than cross-country jumping (though she has yet to play the hunting horn while riding!). She enjoys many diverse activities including mountain biking in Colorado, camping in Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota and has run in the Chicago Marathon.
If you have any questions about the horn studio at MTSU or anything related to the horn, feel free to contact Professor DeBoer at [email protected].
Associate Professor of Horn at Middle Tennessee State University, Angela DeBoer is also an active performer on the horn, holding positions with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and the Huntsville Sympony. She also works regularly in Nashville with the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera and the Nashville Ballet as well as recording in the studios around Nashville. DeBoer is also an active chamber musician, performing chamber music as a member of the Stones River Chamber Players and other MTSU Faculty ensembles. Additional creative activity will find her performing on the Baroque and Classical natural horns; instruments on which she presents lectures and masterclasses at workshops and schools around the country as well as performing on these instruments with the Music City Baroque and has also performed with the Atlanta Baroque. Since 2011, DeBoer has been on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.
Prior to her work in Tennessee, DeBoer was a member of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and worked with the Tulsa Ballet and Tulsa Opera. She was also active in the freelance community in and around Chicago for many years, performing with ensembles such as the Milwaukee, Grant Park, Elgin, South Bend, Northwest Indiana, Duluth-Superior and Illinois Symphonies as well as with, Chicago Sinfonietta, Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Opera Theatre and the Illinois and Fort Wayne Philharmonics. She also spent several seasons as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a group with which she also appeared as soloist. She has attended several competitive music festivals including Tanglewood, National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, Sarasota Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West. She was also a semi-finalist at the 2007 International Horn Competition of America.
DeBoer received her Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University in Chicago, studied in the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music and received her Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include Jonathan Boen (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Principal Horn), Gail Williams (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Associate Principal Horn, retired), David Krehbiel (San Francisco Symphony, Principal Horn, retired) and Jerome Ashby (New York Philharmonic, Associate Principal Horn, deceased).
She has been an active teacher, serving in the faculty of the Barthelmes Conservatory on Tulsa as well as maintaining a private studio in the Chicago area for several years. She taught lessons as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University and has presented masterclasses, instructional chamber music and solo performances in the public schools of Illinois, New York and Minnesota as well as in the City Colleges of Chicago and at the Amadeus Piano Festival.
DeBoer has had the opportunity to work under the batons of many leading conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Previn and Pierre Boulez. She has also had numerous occasions to play the Wagner Tuba and has performed works by Bruckner, Stravinsky, Wagner and Rouse on the instrument. In addition to her classical playing, DeBoer has recorded with jazz legend Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra; a project which earned a coveted five-star review from Downbeat magazine.
A native of Minnesota, DeBoer is a horse lover and enjoys all types of horse related disciplines, but none more than cross-country jumping (though she has yet to play the hunting horn while riding!). She enjoys many diverse activities including mountain biking in Colorado, camping in Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota and has run in the Chicago Marathon.
If you have any questions about the horn studio at MTSU or anything related to the horn, feel free to contact Professor DeBoer at [email protected].
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