Jennifer Montone

Grammy Award winner, Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and Music Academy alum Jennifer Montone has been hailed by The New York Times for her "flawless horn solos... and warm and noble sound". The Principal Horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra, she has been on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School since joining the orchestra in 2006. Previously she served as the Principal Horn of the Saint Louis Symphony and Associate Principal Horn of the Dallas Symphony. She regularly performs as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the National Symphony, the Polish National Radio Symphony, and the Warsaw National Philharmonic. Montone studied with Music Academy teaching artist Julie Landsman at The Juilliard School. Her recording of the Penderecki Horn Concerto, "Winterreise" with the Warsaw National Philharmonic won a 2013 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Classical Compendium”.