Frank Lloyd FRAM (1952 - ) is an

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virtuoso horn player and teacher, Professor of Horn at the in

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and formerly professor of horn at both the

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and

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in London.

Early life

Frank was born into a non-musical family in Cornwall, UK in 1952. Aged 13 he took up the

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and joined his school brass band; on leaving school aged fifteen he joined the Royal Marines Band Service where he changed to the

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. In 1975 he left the services to study at the

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as a pupil of Ifor James. Within three months, however, he was offered the position of Principal Horn with the Scottish National Orchestra, now the

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Career

He played with RSNO for four and a half years before returning to London and the

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, with whom he played for three years, leaving to fulfill ever-increasing demands for his services as a soloist and chamber-music player, also joining the

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and the

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as Principal Horn. For some years he served as Professor of Horn at both the

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and Trinity School of Music in London, until in 1998 he was appointed Professor of Horn at the Folkwang Hochschule, succeeding the legendary Hermann Baumann. Frank has performed as a soloist throughout Europe and the United States as well as Canada, Japan, Taiwan, China and Australia. He has featured on numerous occasions at the International Horn Workshops in the United States, Japan, Europe and South Africa, and also tours Europe extensively giving master classes and performing both as soloist and with chamber groups. He was President of the International Horn Society 2006-2007 and was re-elected President in the summer of 2010/2011. His mastery of unusual playing techniques can be heard clearly in ''Tico Tico'' on the London Horn Sound CD, and on several of the arrangements on the new, London Horn Sound 2 Jazz CD "Give it one".

Honours

He has been awarded the Fellowship of the

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20090914172039/http://www.franklloyd.net/ * http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/6551.htm English classical horn players Living people 1952 births Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the Folkwang University of the Arts Players of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Musicians from Cornwall {{brass-musician-stub