About the Professor
Daniel Katzen
Associate Professor of Music (Horn)
Office: MUS, Room 219
Phone: 520.621.1492
email: dkatzen@email.arizona.edu
Prof. Daniel Katzen began his tenure at the University of Arizona faculty in the Fall of 2008. Previously he spent 29 years as second horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a faculty member of horn and brass repertoire at New England Conservatory of Music and the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Prof. Katzen also taught at California Institute of the Arts from 2000-2007, and has consulted with the orchestral program at University of California Music Department in Irvine since 2000. He also has continued to perform and record with various Los Angeles orchestras and film studios since 2000.
Early orchestral experiences include extra horn with the Munich Philharmonic (1973), the Israel Chamber Ensemble (1974), the Rochester Philharmonic (1974-76), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestras (1975-76). His previous positions were as second horn with the Phoenix Symphony (1976-78) and the Grant Park (Chicago) Symphony in 1978, and fourth horn with the San Diego Symphony Orchestras (1978-79).
Prof. Katzen's education includes a diploma "With Honors" from the Preparatory Department of the Eastman School of Music, a Bachelors Degree "With Distinction" from the Indiana University School of Music and a Masters degree from Northwestern University. His principal teachers were Milan Yancich, Morris Secon, Michael Hoeltzel, Philip Farkas, Peter Damm, Dale Clevenger and Fred Fox.
Studies and performances have taken Prof. Katzen to 25 U.S. states and 22 foreign countries on five continents to perform more than 5000 concerts. In March of 2008, he was featured in his premiere solo recital at the U. of A. as well as his farewell appearance at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. He continues to perform with various U.S. Orchestras, including the Boston Symphony.
Daniel Katzen reflects: "My philosophy of teaching is that you cannot force education onto people; they must find it themselves. My job is to help steer students in constructive directions that make it more likely they will learn what's important."
In addition to the horn, Prof. Katzen has studied piano, theory, bass, harp, harpsichord, recorder, Renaissance music, Balkan music and dance, Israeli and Hebraic music and chant, and seven languages. "Panoply leads to worldliness" is a favorite saying.
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