Joseph Lovinsky is Principal Hornist of the United
States Army Band and Orchestra “Pershing’s Own”,
The Army Brass Quintet, the Maryland Symphony
Orchestra and the Washington Ballet.

Born in New York City
of Haitian parents, Joseph
grew up in Miami, Florida where he began playing
horn in the Dade County public school system. B
efore
beginning formal horn studies at the age of 17,
Joseph
had already made his Carnegie Hall debut as solo
horn of the McDonald's All American Band. Joseph
attended the Peabody Institute under full scholarship
as a student of Peter Landgren and continued horn
studies as a student of Myron Bloom at the Curtis
Institute of Music.  Joseph was later appointed horn
teaching assistant at The Juilliard School and
awarded the Irving Berlin Fellowship for Outstanding
Orchestral Performance before completing horn
studies with James Chambers and Jerome Ashby.

As a professional musician, Joseph has served as
Principal Horn for the Miami City Ballet, the Israel
Pops and later of the National Symphony of the
Dominican Republic. Since 1997, Joseph Lovinsky
has served as principal horn of the Maryland
Symphony Orchestra, after being hand selected by
Barry Tuckwell. In 1999, he toured with Leonard
Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra. He
has also performed in Europe, South America and
Asia and with artists Leonard Bernstein, Midori, Dizzy
Gillespie, Zubin Mehta, Isaac Stern, and Yo-Yo Ma.

A much sought after soloist/clinician, Joseph
Lovinsky is on the faculty at Howard University
continuing a tradition of musicianship he received
from his mentors, Jerome Ashby, James Chambers
and Robert Watt.
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Joseph Lovinsky