The Green Mountain Horn Club

The Green Mountain Horn Club, founded by Alan Parshley over twenty years ago, bringing together horn players of all ages and backgrounds. The horn club has performed in opera houses, churches, schools, and scenic outdoor locations throughout Vermont to enthusiastic audiences. They were invited to perform at the International Horn Society meeting at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1997, and members from the group have traveled several times to perform at the Pitten International Music Festival in Pitten, Austria. Their surprisingly varied repertoire includes transcriptions of Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, serious original works for large horn choir, marches, movie music, and popular selections.

Alan Parshley has performed throughout New England over the past two decades, as a member of the horn sections of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Albany Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Vermont Brass Quintet. With the Vermont Symphony Brass Trio, he has introduced thousands of Vermont school children to brass instruments annually. He has also performed with the symphonies of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, and for several seasons was principal horn of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra. He has teaching affiliations with the University of Vermont, as well as being a sought-after private teacher or horn playing.

He has performed as soloist with orchestras and wind ensembles in the United States and Europe, and as a recitalist, has performed the solo horn repertory many times over for enthusiastic audiences. A founding member of the Pitten International Music Festival, he has traveled to Austria since 1992 to teach, perform, and serve as Associate Director of the festival. Mr. Parshley studied horn at Olivet College in his native Michigan, and at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. Prior to moving to Vermont he performed with the Kalamazoo Symphony, and completed two extensive tours in the United States with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra.