Biography
Pianist Daniel Paul Horn performs in recital throughout North America, on WFMT-FM, and with Midwestern orchestras; in 2015, he appeared with the Sarajevo Philharmonic. He collaborates with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, played in Beijing and on Bermuda with the MasterWorks Ensemble, and has performed with the Ying Quartet. He works with noted singers, and has premiered compositions of Jacob Bancks, Jacob Beranek, Delvyn Case, Richard Danielpour, David M. Gordon, Daniel Kellogg, and Max Raimi. He recorded the critically praised disc “Wanderings” on a Graf fortepiano, an all-Schumann solo recital, and discs with flutist Jennie Oh Brown, cellist Donald Moline, soprano Carolyn Hart, and baritone Gerard Sundberg.
Horn studied at Peabody with Walter Hautzig, and at Juilliard, where he worked with Martin Canin and Felix Galimir, and earned his doctorate. He has also coached with Jerome Lowenthal, Ann Schein, Joseph Bloch, and Roy Howat, Menahem Pressler. Currently Professor and Keyboard Chair at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1984, and was honored with an Senior Academic Achievement Award, he has served as a faculty artist at the Sewanee, Adamant, MasterWorks, and Dakota Sky festivals, and is treasurer of the American Liszt Society.
Dr. Horn has been piano chair at the Wheaton College Conservatory since 2002.
Education
Undergraduate Degree, BM
Piano Performance
Juilliard, 1978
Masters Degree, MM
Piano Performance
Juilliard, 1979
Doctoral Degree, DMA
Piano Performance
Juilliard, 1987
Areas of Expertise
Professional Affiliations
- American Liszt Society, Treasurer
- Music Teachers National Association, Nationally Certified Teacher of Music
Media
Felix Mendelssohn/ Fantasie in f-sharp minor, Op. 28 (III). Daniel Paul Horn, Graf fortepiano (ca.1828)Wanderings: Fantasies of Mendelssohn and Schubert (Titanic Records, Ti-236, 1998)
Paul Hindemith Clarinet Quartet (first movement) Yuan-Qing Yu, violin Stephen Balderston, cello Gregory Smith, clarinet, DPH. Recorded 24 March 2000 in a Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series concert at North Park University.
Claude Debussy/ L’isle joyeuse (1904). Daniel Paul Horn, piano.Recorded in Edman Chapel, Wheaton College for Wheaton Showcase CD, 2002.
Ludwig van Beethoven/ Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 (I). Daniel Paul Horn, piano; Daniel Sommerville, conductor; Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra. Recorded 28 February 2004 in concert at Edman Chapel.
Robert Schumann/ Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47 (IV). Yuan-Qing Yu, violin; Keith Conant, viola; Barbara Haffner, cello; DPH. Recorded 21 October 2007 at Rembrandt Chamber Players concert, Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL.
Olivier Messiaen/ Visions de l’Amen: II. Amen des étoiles, de la planete à l’anneau (Amen of the Stars and the Ringed Planet). Alexander Djordjevic, Piano I; Daniel Paul Horn, Piano II. Recorded 6 September 2007 in concert at University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Robert Schumann/ Humoreske, Op. 20 (III). Daniel Paul Horn, piano. “Sehnsucht: Music of Robert Schumann.” Recorded June 2010, Edman Chapel. Disc available through CDBaby.com and Wheaton College Bookstore.
Franz Schubert/ Rondo in A Major, D. 951. Daniel Paul Horn and Samuel Hsu, piano, four-hands. Recorded 10 September 2010 at Vos Family Shigeru Kawai EX Dedication Recital, Edman Chapel.
Johann Sebastian Bach/ Toccata in G Major, BWV 916. Daniel Paul Horn, piano. Recorded in concert at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, 18 November 2011.
Franz Liszt/ Sposalizio. Daniel Paul Horn, piano. Recorded in concert at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, 18 November 2011.
Franz Liszt/ Sonetto 47 del Petrarca. Daniel Paul Horn, piano. Recorded in concert at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, 18 November 2011.
Jacob Bancks/ “In conspectu gentium,” from Antiphonale I (2011). Daniel Paul Horn, piano. Recorded in concert at Albion College, Albion,Michigan, 18 November 2011.
Johannes Brahms/ Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2. Daniel Paul Horn, piano. Recorded in concert at the Dakota Sky Festival, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 25 July 2013.