Horn
David Jolley has been acclaimed as one of his generation's premier horn players. A frequent soloist with orchestras worldwide, he premiered Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra with the Rochester Philharmonic and performed it in Carnegie Hall with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Recent orchestral engagements include performances with the Detroit, Phoenix, and Memphis symphonies, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Israel Sinfonietta, and the Kamerata Chamber Orchestra of Athens.
He is a frequent guest artist with the Musicians from Marlboro, Guarneri String Quartet, Beaux-Arts Trio, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Other recent collaborations include performances with André Watts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and with Murray Perahia at the 92nd Street "Y."
A member emeritus of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Jolley is a member of the virtuoso wind quintet Windscape and the Fleisher-Jolley-Tree-O with Leon Fleisher and Michael Tree. He has performed at summer festivals such as Dartington Hall in England, Kuhmo and Mustasaari in Finland, Madeira Bach in Portugal, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, Marlboro, Bravo! (Colorado), Chamber Music Northwest, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
His numerous recordings include more than two dozen CDs with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, including Mozart Concerti for Deutsche Grammophon, and a series of solo albums, Adagio and Allegro, Sonatas and Trios of Alec Wilder, and Villanelle for the Arabesque label. His recordings of the Mozart and Strauss concerti with the Israeli Sinfonietta were released by the Arabesque label.
Mr. Jolley received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School. A resident of New York, he currently serves on the faculties of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Mannes College of Music, Queens College-CUNY, and the Colburn School in Los Angeles.
Mr. Jolley is an alumnus of the Music Academy (1965) and has been a member of the faculty since 2004.