This is one should not come as a surprise: The horn-player who managed to capture the imagination of so many music lovers certainly deserves my attention as well. I obviously knew the name Dennis Brain for years, but it was not really until I started studying with Odd Ulleberg in Oslo, Norway, that I got intensely curious about the great British horn player. My respect for Odd was immense, and when he would constantly reference Dennis Brain's recordings in lessons and conv

As a horn player, there are not too many opportunities to write original cadenzas. I can not think of any pre-classical horn concerti that leaves room for a cadenza. During classical times we have several examples, most notably the concerti of Haydn and Mozart need cadenzas and shorter "eingang"s in several places. Also Rosetti and Punto leave room for cadenzas in their concerti (and I assume some other classical concerti that are not in my active repertoire fall in the sa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S0DnVSlZAQ Over the years I have made many transcriptions. Some projects have been very ambitious – like trying to realize Mahler's Kindertotenlieder for Violin, Horn, Piano and Voice. Sometimes I have been paid quite well for my work – for instance when I made the wind quintet version of Dvorak's A flat Major Sting Quartet op. 105. Mostly, though, I have found some music that I loved dearly, yet wasn't avialable for me to perform in its cu