LAUREN BECKER
French Horn

University of Rochester; Eastman School of Music

Hornist Lauren Becker is an active freelance musician and educator in the Western New York region. In addition to winning the University of New Hampshire Concerto Competition (2005) and Keith Polk Horn Scholarship Competition (2001), Ms. Becker has performed with many chamber ensembles and orchestras, including the Portland Ballet Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the Rochester Chamber Orchestra.

 

As a member of the Eastman Wind Ensemble she performed and recorded the album Manhattan Music with the Canadian Brass in 2007, and has appeared on other recordings for the Toronto Blue Jays, University of Rochester Medical Center, and University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony.

Ms. Becker served as a graduate teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music and has instructed clinics and private horn lessons throughout New England and upstate New York. Ms. Becker has taught individual and group lessons, ensemble coachings, and music theory at several summer programs, including the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire and Kendall Betts Horn Camp in Lyman, New Hampshire.

Ms. Becker is the Collegiate Horn Instructor at the University of Rochester, and teaches private and group horn lessons at the Eastman Community Music School, Holland Music Studios, and her studio in the Rochester, New York area.

Ms. Becker holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire and is certified in Music K-12 in New Hampshire. She recently completed a Master of Music in Horn Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. Her primary horn instructors include W. Peter Kurau, A. Kendall Betts, John Boden, Neil Deland, and Elizabeth Gates.