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- Associate Professor of Music (Horn), Jacobs School of Music
Background:
As one of the most sought after hornists throughout North America and abroad, hornist Jeff Nelsen is equally successful in both classical and contemporary genres and in the roles of both musician and mentor. As a performer Nelsen is best known as the hornist of the Canadian Brass. As a pedagogue. he teaches horn, chamber music, and coaches "Fearlessness" at the Jacobs School of Music.
Nelsen has held positions in the Montreal, Vancouver, and Winnipeg symphony orchestras. Among his other appearances as orchestral performer are those with the New York Philharmonic, Boston, National (Kennedy Center, D.C.), Cincinnati, Indianapolis Symphonies, National Arts Center Orchestra, and the Canadian Opera Company. As a member of Canadian Brass, in addition to the hundreds of quintet recitals performed all over the world, Nelsen has been featured with countless symphony orchestras including Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Minnesota, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and St. Louis.
Nelsen has performed the complete run of two shows on Broadway, and toured with popular entertainers including Michael Bolton and Barry Manilow. He has an extensive discography ranging from film, TV, Broadway show and video game soundtracks, pop and jazz music, solos, chamber, symphonic, and operatic repertoire. These recordings are on labels such as Sony Classical, Warner, Blue Note, London/Decca, Disney, Summit Records, C.B.C. and Opening Day Records. He continues to attract rave reviews as a featured soloist on the Canadian Brass release "Magic Horn." The CD was nominated for a Juno Award (Canadian equivalent to the Grammy Award) for "Best Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble." Intensely active as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician, Nelsen has appeared at numerous international music festivals including Ravinia, Tanglewood, Blossom, Music Academy of the West, Banff, Las Vegas, and St. Barthlélemy.
Born to opera-singing pig-farming parents in Western Canada, he believes this duality contributes strongly to his unique career paths thus far. He is married to mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen. These strong vocal influences on his music-making give Nelsen his signature sound and singing approach to his teaching and horn playing. His eldest sister Lisa resides in England where she is a freelance flutist while his sister Suzanne, a bassoonist, is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Suzanne is also married to former CB hornist David Ohanian.
Aside from creating musical magic, Nelsen is an enthusiastic magician, and often adds touches of illusionary arts to performances. Prior to joining the faculty at Indiana University, he was on faculty at the Universities of Toronto, British Columbia, Victoria, and McGill University in Montreal. He has recurring articles focusing on "Fearlessness" in the magazines for the International Horn Society and the British Horn Society and his debut publication, "Fearless Performance" is due for release soon. He hosts his seminar, "Fearless Performance for Musicians" at Indiana University every summer.
Nelsen is a Yamaha performing artist and clinician.
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With an already impressive and growing international career as a virtuoso performer, teacher, pedagogue and musical commentator, hornist Jeff Nelsen has been appointed Associate Professor of Music at the IU Jacobs School of Music, it was announced today (Nov. 16).
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