Brian Horne
Associate Professor of Music (Voice)
Contact Information:
blhorne
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(blhorne@indiana.edu)
Merrill Hall, MU004C
Department
Education
- D.M., Indiana University, 2001
- M.M., Indiana University, 1987
- B.A., Hiram College, 1985
Biography
Tenor Brian Horne is associate professor of studio voice, voice pedagogy, and diction in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He holds a bachelor's degree from Hiram College in Ohio, as well as the master's and doctoral degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Horne has taught at the University of Missouri and Shorter College, and continues to perform and present master classes.
Professor Horne's former students perform at venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Santa Fe, Chicago Lyric, the Bayerishe Staatsoper (Munich), the Colorado Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the Cincinnati Symphony.
His students have won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the $10,000 first prize in the NATS Artist Awards, and awards such as "The Outstanding Performer" in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year. He has had finalists in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum competition, MTNA Young Artist, Dallas Opera Guild, and the Mobile Opera Competition.
His students have participated in summer programs such as Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, Merola, Central City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera New Jersey, Des Moines Metro Opera, as well as professional training programs such as AVA and the Houston Opera Studio.
Dr. Horne serves on the Jacobs School of Music Council and the Bloomington Faculty Council, and as treasurer of the NATS Foundation. As faculty sponsor of the Student NATS chapter at Indiana University and as research director, he has mentored dozens of students into college teaching positions. He has recorded with the Cincinnati Pops and was awarded a commendation for Special Achievement in musical direction by the Kennedy Center.