Horn StudioClaire ZhaoSTUDENT PROFILE Zirui “Claire” Zhao hails from China. She attended the Interlochen Arts Academy prior to matriculating at Eastman, where she is majoring in Horn Performance. Her hobbies include traveling, shopping and Texas hold’em.
Horn StudioAaron FultonSTUDENT PROFILE Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA. Fulton has been engrossed in music starting at a young age. He has performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and many other professional opportunities. His teachers include Peter Kurau, Mark Houghton, Jacek Muzyk, and Stephen Kostyniak. Fulton has received multiple scholarships including Washington (PA) Symphony Orchestra Young…
Horn StudioAby StumpfSTUDENT PROFILE Aby Stumpf is a senior studying at both the Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester, pursuing degrees in French Horn Performance and Music for Wellbeing: Maternal and Infant Cognitive Health, as well as a certificate in Arts Leadership. Hailing from Buckhorn, Ontario, Canada, Aby seeks to understand the unique…
Horn StudioMary KimbleSTUDENT PROFILE Mary Kimble is a fourth year horn performance major from Cincinnati, Ohio. She loves chamber music and performs in the Fourte! Horn quartet as well as a wind quintet. She is also a member of Brass Guild and Harmonie. In the summer of 2024, Mary participated in the Monteux music festival.…
Horn StudioJennelle WilliamsSTUDENT PROFILE Jennelle Williams is a horn player native to the Chicago-land area, now residing in Rochester, New York pursuing a degree in music performance as well as a certificate in Arts Leadership. After four years of study with Corbin Wagner at the Interlochen Arts Academy, she began her studies with W. Peter…
Horn StudioSam WoodSTUDENT PROFILE Sam Wood is a horn player from the Dallas–Fort Worth area currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music at the Eastman School of Music, where he studies with Peter Kurau. He is a frequent substitute horn player with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syracuse Orchestra. He has…
Horn StudioDiego SolisSTUDENT PROFILE Diego Solis is a third-year horn performance major from Laredo, Texas. Being inspired by his father, who also was a hornist, he began playing the horn at the age of 11. Before transferring to the Eastman School of Music, he previously studied with Dr. Kenneth Iyescas and Mrs. Heather Test in…
Horn StudioJohn WellmannSTUDENT PROFILE John Wellmann is a third-year horn performance and music education major from Anchorage, Alaska. He is a proud member of the horn quartet Earth, Wind & Geyer, and with them won the Horn Quartet Competition at the 2026 Northeast Horn Workshop. He served as principal horn in the Anchorage Youth Symphony…
Horn StudioMiles WoodsSTUDENT PROFILE Miles Woods is a horn player born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee who currently attends the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York. Miles currently studies under Professor Peter Kurau. He previously studied with Patrick Walle (Associate Principal and 3rd Horn Nashville Symphony) who also studied under Professor Kurau at…
Horn StudioLilah CostanzoSTUDENT PROFILE Originally from Hemlock, New York, Lilah Costanzo is a Junior French horn performance major at the Eastman School of Music. A Rochester native, she studied under Nikolette LaBonte and Stephen Laifer prior to attending Eastman, where she is now a student of Peter Kurau. She participates in a variety of musical…
