Derek Conrod, horn 

 

Derek Conrod has been teaching at Western since 1986. He is also on faculty at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester) and Wilfrid Laurier University. As a horn player, he is a member of the Stratford Festival Orchestra, and recently retired from both the National Ballet Orchestra and Tafelmusik after 30 seasons. A frequent recitalist and lecturer on historical horns, Derek has performed on more than 30 discs with Tafelmusik, Arradia, American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), and Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), and has appeared as a soloist with Tafelmusik at the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center and at Orchestra Hall in Chicago.