Austin Larson

Praised by The Straits Times as “a supremely confident artist, one whose well-projected and warm tone brought much life and humanity to the music” Principal Horn Austin Larson joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2023. A regular guest with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Austin has also performed with the US National Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and as Guest Principal Horn with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Korean Broadcast Symphony in Seoul, Royal Philharmonic in London, BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, Iceland Symphony in Reykjavik, and São Paulo Symphony in Brazil. Before moving to Singapore, Austin held full-time positions in the Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Colorado Symphonies in the United States.

Austin has also been successful in many competitions, winning both University and Professional Divisions of the International Horn Competition of America and taking prizes in the International Brass Instruments Competition in Gdańsk, Poland and the Jeju International Brass Competition in South Korea. Austin has also won the International Horn Society Premier Soloist Competition, Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, Wisconsin Public Radio Young Artists Competition, and the International Horn Competition “Citta di Chieri” in Italy. Austin has appeared as a soloist at the International Horn Symposium, Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival, Thailand International Brass and Percussion Festival, on Wisconsin Public Radio, and with orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

A native of Neenah, Wisconsin in the mid-western USA, Austin holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati and the Curtis Institute of Music and his teachers include Randy Gardner, Jennifer Montone, Julie Landsman, Jeffrey Lang, Duane Dugger, Elizabeth Freimuth, Richard Deane, Douglas Hill, Bruce Atwell, and Donald Krause. A strong believer in music education, Austin taught with the Baltimore Symphony OrchKids program for inner-city youth and has raised funds for music scholarships at the University of Cincinnati in addition to musicians’ relief funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit www.austin-larson.com.