Richard Todd (horn player)

Richard Todd is a film, jazz, pop/rock and European classical horn (French horn) player working in Hollywood, CA and Miami, Florida. Todd is from Placentia, California, and attended El Dorado High School, graduating in 1973. Todd has recorded on over 1,000 motion picture soundtracks, appeared with and recorded with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, and Madonna. Todd has also recorded as a jazz artist with Clark Terry, Ray Brown and Woody Herman.[1]

Todd was a gold medal winner at the 1980 Concours Internationale Toulon and a Pro Musicis International Foundation Award winner. Gunther Schuller personally selected him to record his Concerto No. 1 for Horn and Orchestra with the Saarbrucken Radio Orchestra.[1]

Todd is former Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and is currently the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Miami Frost School of Music.[1]

Discography

  • New Ideas (classical and jazz) (GM Recordings LP# GM 2010)
  • Rickterscale (jazz) (1999, GM Recordings)
  • Horn Sonatas of Three Centuries (classical) (GM Recordings, GM 2070)
  • With a Twist (jazz) (2002, Rubedo Canis Musica)

With Andre Previn

References

  1. 1 2 3 University of Miami, Frost School of Music Profiles. Richard Todd. Retrieved May 17, 2014 from http://www.miami.edu/frost/index.php/frost/frost_profiles/instrumental-brass-1-todd_richard_bio/


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