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  Hornist Lauren Becker is an active freelance musician and educator in the Western New York region. She is a member of the Wilmot Wind and Brass Quintets and has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Eastman Virtuosi, Utica Symphony Orchestra, Catskills Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and Portland Ballet Orchestra. In 2009, Lauren traveled to Malaysia to perform several charity concerts benefiting the Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation with the Kuala Lumpur International Festival Orchestra. As a member of the Eastman Wind Ensemble she recorded the album Manhattan Music with the Canadian Brass in 2007, and can be heard on other recordings for the Toronto Blue Jays, University of Rochester Medical Center, and University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony. Lauren is currently Lecturer of Horn at Nazareth College and a horn instructor at the Eastman Community Music School, the Hochstein School of Music and Dance, and Nazareth College Community Music Program in Rochester, NY. She has previously taught at the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Rochester. She attended the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp for several summers and has been a staff member there since 2007, and is a Horn Instructor at the New York Summer Music Festival in Oneonta, NY. Lauren is presently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Horn Performance and Literature with a Minor in Music Education. She holds a Master of Music in Horn Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire. Her primary horn instructors include W. Peter Kurau, A. Kendall Betts, John Boden, Neil Deland, and Elizabeth Gates. |
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