Paul Stevens
Horn
Paul Stevens, Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Kansas,
is also Principal Horn of the Kansas City Ballet Orchestra, and the
Mozart Classical Orchestra of Los Angeles. He is also a frequent performer
with the Kansas City Symphony and Lyric Opera.
As an orchestral player he has performed with leading orchestras like
the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, the Joffrey Ballet,
the San Francisco Symphony, the American Ballet Theatre, the Houston
Symphony, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,
the Oregon Symphony and the San Diego Opera. He has performed on Principal
Horn under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Edo DeWaart,
Kent Nagano and Stanislav Skrowazewski.
During more than a decade in Hollywood he played on many motion picture
soundtracks and television films, including over fifty episodes of Star
Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, many episodes
of Jag, and movies such as Ransom, What Dreams May Come, Dead Again,
The Land Before Time, Star Trek: Generations, the Flintstones and several
Disney projects; including Fantasmic! and Mickeys Nutcracker.
He worked with such composers as James Horner, John Williams, Bruce
Broughton, Henry Mancini, Danny Elfman and Dennis McCarthy. Audio projects
ranged from Placido Domingo to Michael Bolton to the rap group Outkast.
As a chamber musician he is a member of the Kansas Brass Quintet and
the Kansas Woodwinds, is a Permanent Member of the Marthas Vineyard
Chamber Music Society and is a Featured Artist at the San Luis Obispo
Mozart Festival. Other appearances have included the Oregon Bach Festival,
Mainly Mozart Festival of San Diego, La Jolla Summer Fest., Apple Hill
Chamber Players, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, Mozart in Monterey
and the Fairbanks (Alaska) Summer Arts Festival.
He was educated at Juilliard under Myron Bloom (22 years Principal
Horn with the Cleveland Orchestra under Szell), the San Francisco Conservatory
under Arthur Krehbiel (40 years Principal in San Francisco, Detroit
and Chicago under Reiner), and UCLA under Richard Todd and Brian OConnor
(1st call Hollywood Studio Players for over twenty years).