You will get two solo coaching sessions with a member of our horn faculty and one of our faculty accompanists per camp week regardless of whether you wish to perform a solo on one of the participant concerts. We encourage you to use these sessions to work on solo repertoire even if it is not performance ready.
In order for us to optimize your Cormont Horn Camp experience, our faculty accompanists must receive piano parts in time to prepare, and we also need to know whether you would like to perform on one of our participant concerts.
All participants must fill out the Solo Repertoire Form and submit a high-quality PDF of your piano part(s) (if your solo includes piano accompaniment) by May 1st.
You may submit the PDF of your piano part to our Operations Director, Julie Bryant-Gerhardt, at
julie@horncamp.org. If your file size is too large to send via e-mail, create a free Google Drive account (
www.drive.google.com), upload the part to Google Drive, and use Google Drive to share the PDF with
julie@horncamp.org.
Please be aware that you will only have time to work on one piece of solo repertoire per camp week.
Piano parts should have minimal pencil markings and be clear and easy to read. You will be asked to resubmit any part that is blurry or distorted due to poor scanning. If you use your phone to scan, please use a scanning app such as CamScanner or TurboScan.
Photographs of piano parts will not be accepted.
Participants wishing to perform a solo that does not require piano accompaniment must also use the Online Repertoire Form to submit repertoire information by the deadline.
If you wish to perform a solo on a participant concert, we ask that you adhere to the following guidelines:
Arrive at Cormont Horn Camp with your solo well-prepared. It is recommended that by the time you arrive at CHC, that you will have been practicing your selection for at least a month. Your chosen repertoire should be well-rehearsed and performance-ready when you arrive at camp. Please choose repertoire that is well within your performance abilities. A well-executed performance will be much more rewarding than an overly-ambitious one.
If your solo requires a cadenza, please prepare a cadenza well in advance in order to incorporate it seamlessly into your performance.
Often, multiple soloists will choose the same solo. For multi-movement works, we may compromise by having multiple participants “share” the solo, each playing different movements. If you would like to perform a multi-movement work, please indicate clearly which movement(s) you are prepared to play.
Occasionally, multiple soloists will choose the same single-movement work. If you are one such soloist in this situation, we may ask you to change your selection.
Many solos are popular choices among horn players, and are therefore often chosen by multiple performers. If your first-choice selection is from the following list, please consider an alternate selection, as only one performance of any given piece will be allowed per recital:
Mozart, Concerto No. 2, first movement
Mozart, Concerto No. 3, first movement
Mozart, Concerto No. 4, first movement
Neuling, Bagatelle
Saint-Saëns, Morceau de Concert
F. Strauss, Nocturno
R. Strauss, Concerto No. 1
Last-minute substitutions of difficult pieces cannot be accommodated.
The decisions of the artistic director and associate artistic director regarding participant solo selection for the participant concerts are final.
Deadline for online repertoire form and piano parts: May 1
