Thomas Haunton

Senior Lecturer, French Horn

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music

A freelance horn player based in Boston, Thomas Haunton performs as Principal Horn in both the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and as Third Horn of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra for over twenty seasons, Mr. Haunton has toured extensively throughout the United States, Japan, and Korea. A winner of the prestigious Concert Artist Guild Competition as a member of the woodwind quintet, Quintet di Legno, Mr. Haunton has also performed as guest principal horn of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared in two films, "Yes, Giorgio" and "Blown Away," and in a music video for MTV by the rock music group, Aerosmith. Under the baton of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Keith Lockhart, Mr. Haunton has performed with many notable artists from the fields of classical music (Beverly Sills, Isaac Stern, Itzak Pearlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Andrea Bocelli), jazz music (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie), country/folk music (Johnny Cash, John Denver, James Taylor), Broadway show music (Richard Harris, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Cook, Joel Grey, Ben Vereen, Faith Prince, Bebe Neuwirth), comedy (Victor Borge, Dom DeLuise) and rock music (Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Aerosmith). Mr. Haunton is also the author of numerous publications, including a book of French horn excerpts published by Margun Music entitled Horn Passages of the Symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn.