NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University will host Louisiana Horn Day on Sunday, March 3. According to event coordinator NSU Assistant Professor of Horn Dr. Alexis Sczepanik, the goal of Louisiana Horn Day is to promote horn playing and horn music throughout Louisiana. Sczepanik said Horn Day is geared toward horn players of all ages and experience levels.
A concert featuring guest artists Matt Meadows and Josiah Bullach will be at 1 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
Meadows is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and clinician. In recent years, he has earned top prizes in numerous solo competitions. In 2019, he was awarded second prize in the International Horn Competition of America University Division. Most recently, he was named the “National Winner” in the MTNA Young Artist Competition, winner of the International Phoenix Music Competition for Horn Duos, winner of the 2021 Southeast Horn Workshop Graduate Solo Competition, winner of the 2021 Kappa Kappa Psi Biennial Solo Competition and winner of the 2022 United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” National Collegiate Solo Competition.
In addition to his passion for solo performance, Meadows is an active chamber musician. He is the principal horn of the Capstone Horn Quartet, also known as “Tater and the Tots.” Since the group’s inception in 2017, the Capstone Horn Quartet has been awarded first-prize in both the Southeast Horn Workshop Quartet Competition and the International Horn Society Summer Symposium Amateur Quartet Competition.
Meadows is principal horn of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra, co-principal horn of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and third horn of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera. He has substituted with orchestras such as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.
Bullach serves as associate and assistant principal horn of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Since his appointment to the LPO in 2016, Bullach has played an active role as a performer, recording artist and educator. He is on faculty at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, on the board of the New Orleans Chamber Players and is passionate about music education in the greater New Orleans area.
Bullach has been a guest performer with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Cleveland City Chamber Orchestra, Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Firelands Symphony Orchestra and WindSync. In 2022, he won second prize in the International Horn Competition of America.
He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Bullach was a prize winner of the Tuesday Musical Association Scholarship Competition, a featured soloist with the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony for their 2012 European concert tour, and a soloist at both Baldwin Wallace University and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory or Music.
As part of Horn Day, NSU alumnus and former Shreveport Symphony horn player Craig Pratt will display his rare horn collection.
For more information, including the full schedule of events and registration, go to lahornday.org.
