HORN

Michael Goss is an active hornist, pianist, and arranger based in Buffalo, New York. He received his Master’s in Horn Performance from Bowling Green State University in 2022, and his Bachelor’s in Horn Performance from SUNY Fredonia in 2020. Michael has appeared with the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, Western New York Chamber Orchestra, and Erie County Wind Ensemble, as well as several chamber groups across the Buffalo and Toledo areas. He also won 1st place in the High Horn division of the International Horn Society’s 2022 Orchestral Audition Contest. Michael is excited to be playing his first season with the TFO!

Kaylee Jones is an Idaho native and is very excited to spend her first season with the TFO this summer. She is currently a student at Idaho State University studying music education and will soon be on her way to teaching. Some of her favorite things include: reading a good book, painting with watercolors, and spending quality time with her family and friends.

Ian Owens is a horn player from central Florida and is studying music education and horn performance at Stetson University.

Andrew Sehmann plays with multiple orchestras in the Southeast. He is third horn in the Augusta Symphony, and second horn with the South Carolina Philharmonic. He also teaches horn, aural skills, and music appreciation at Young Harris College, and Georgia College in Milledgeville. His previous teachers have included: Marie-Luise Neunecker, Wolfgang Vladar, Johannes Hinterholzer, Jean Martin-Williams Mick Sehmann, Richard Deane, James Naigus, Hazel Dean Davis, Achim Reus, and Kevin Reid.

Patrick Williams is a freelance hornist and teacher based in the greater Los Angeles area. He specializes in low-horn playing and is an avid chamber musician. He holds a Master’s degree in Instrumental Performance from California State University, Long Beach where he studied with Dylan Hart. While there, his work centered around the potentialities of trans expression through contemporary genres, with a focus on the music of the late SOPHIE. He holds a B.A. in Music and German from Amherst College, where he studied with Jean Jeffries; he is a two-time recipient of the Edward Poole Lay Fellowship.