Alfred Blatter - 
Eb Alto Horn 

Biographical Information

Alfred Blatter, alto horn, has played horn with the University of Illinois Concert Band, the Mark Foutch Brass Band, The United States Army Band, the Chester County Concert Band, The Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Roanoke Symphony and The Orchestra Society of Philadelphia under such diverse conductors as Mark Hindsley, Harry Begian, William Revelli, Sam Laboda, Frede Grofe, Ray Dvorak, Arthur Fiedler, Luis Biava and Max Rudolph. Holding a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition and theory from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he has been on the faculties of Marshall University, the University of Illinois, and Drexel University where he established and headed the Department of Performing Arts. Though retired, he currently teaches musical acoustics and orchestration at The Curtis Institute of Music. His compositions are published by M.M. Cole, Media Press and BIM. His bookInstrumentation and Orchestra (now in its 2nd ed.) has been the standard textbook since 1980.

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