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Interviews

richard steggall horn

Letty Stott

Spring 2026

Richard met up with Letty to discuss the carnyx, ancient horns and blockbuster films.

Margaret McGillivray: Lift: Solos for Horn by Black Composers

Autumn 2024

Richard caught up with Margaret to find out how the publication of "Lift" came about.

Felix Klieser

Summer 2023

Richard Steggall met a true inspiration: Felix Klieser

Chineke! 

Spring 2022

Richard Steggall met up with four of Chineke!’s horn players to try to find out why we need this orchestra in the British musical landscape.

Anneke Scott

Summer 2021

Richard Steggall met up with Anneke to discuss her new recording, historic horns and fighting Brexit.

Ben Goldscheider

Autumn 2020

Richard Steggall meets the young soloist to discuss his new CD, honouring Dennis Brain’s legacy and why we should all give contemporary music our time. 

Isaac Shieh

Autumn 2025

The Horn Player Editor Richard Steggall talks to Isaac Shieh about his fascinating new album for natural horn Caprice Reimagined

Richard Watkins

Spring 2024

Richard Watkins has received an Honorary Membership of the British Horn Society in recognition of over forty years (and counting) at the top of the horn profession. To mark this event, Richard met up with him at the RAM to discuss his career so far.

Annemarie Federle (again!)

Spring 2023

Annemarie is Principal Horn of the Aurora Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; not bad for a 20-year-old in her 3rd year at the Royal Academy of Music. The Horn Player Editor, Richard Steggall caught up with Annemarie to find out where it all went right…

Annemarie Federle

Summer 2021

Many of you will have watched Annemarie’s wonderful performances in the BBC Young Musician competition. With a bright future ahead, she tells Richard about playing the Gipps Horn Concerto and her route to the final.

Katy Woolley

Spring 2021

Richard meets one of the UK's greatest exports to discuss her move to Amsterdam, her philosophies, being a female role model and gaining inspiration from Marvel films.

Chris Larkin

Summer 2020

This year, Chris Larkin is to be awarded an honorary membership of the British Horn Society. Here, he talks to Richard Steggall about his life in the music profession, including over 36 years in the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Teaching Articles

Teaching Notes: The Builder and the Architect

Teachers love an analogy, and here Richard introduces the idea of the architect and the builder. The architect is the designer, the artist, a visionary: creative and imaginative, always looking at the overall picture. The builder is the worker:  skilled at using a specific set of tools to realise a design.

Blue-Sky Thinking

The blues is often a vehicle for learning about scales and simple chord progressions. Here, Richard demonstrates its usefulness also for developing brass technique and aural skills.

Teaching Notes: Storytelling (Part 2)

In this second part, Richard explores different kinds of stories and how they can help us with more advanced pieces.

Suite for the Duo: Billy Strayhorn

Richard looks at the re-emergence of a work that is deserving
to be in every horn player’s repertoire.

Teaching Notes: In Praise of the Humble Long Tone

Richard explores this often divisive exercise 

Teaching Notes: Storytelling (Part One)

In the first of this two-part series, Richard Steggall explores using stories as a teaching tool.

Imagination

Richard asks the question, “Are you using yours?”

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