Brian kilp, principal horn

Up Close and Personal
Currently Principal Horn with the Sinfonia da Camera in Champaign, IL, Principal Horn of the Terre Haute Symphony, and 2nd horn of the Danville Symphony, Brian is also a member of Keith Brian’s Touring New Sousa Band, with which he has toured 18 states. Brian is a very busy freelance hornist in the Indianapolis region, and has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Opera, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Lafayette Symphony, The Prairie Ensemble, the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and various other ensembles. In May of 2007 Sinfonia da Camera will be on tour in Beijing and Shanghai.

Dr. Brian Kilp joined the faculty of Indiana State in 1998 where he is currently Associate Professor of Music. In June 2002, Dr. Kilp was appointed Visiting Guest Professor of Horn of the Shenyang and Dalian Conservatories of Music in the P.R. of China, and in 2006, was appointed Visiting Guest Professor at Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University in Thailand. He has been Principal Horn and on the Faculty of the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria, from 2000-present. Originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, he holds degrees from The Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (B.M.), New Mexico State University (M.M.), and a D.M.A. in Horn Performance from The University of Arizona.

A champion of new music, over the past 8 years he has commissioned 14 new works featuring the horn, including one that premiered at the 2000 IHS Beijing International Horn Festival, and another which was premiered at the 2003 IHS International Symposium in Bloomington, IN. In the summer of 2006, Brian presented master classes and performed at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, and with Trio Bella Voce, in Maha Sarakham, Chon Buri, Udon Thani, and Bangkok, Thailand, and in Singapore. In the summers of 2001-05 Dr. Kilp presented recital performances and clinics at Conservatories in Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Xi’an, and Shenyang, China, in Thailand, and in Singapore, and in 2002 was a recitalist at the 5th International Foreign Music Cultural Exchange Festival in Shenyang. Brian regularly appears at IHS events.

A long-time champion of Jim Decker’s “IVASI” video conductor, Brian often appears as a Conn-Selmer Artist/Clinician. His CD entitled: Vox Corno: “The Art of the Transcription”, with pianist Martha Krasnican, was released in Oct. 2004, and is available from TAP Music Sales, Walking Frog Records, and CDbaby.com.

bkilp@indstate.edu
Office: 812-237-2759
Fax: 812-237-3009