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For the definitive lowdown on Kerry Turner you can visit his very informative website (which also features his wife Kristina Mascher: click on Virtuoso Horn Duo; see also this page). A native of San Antonio, Texas, Kerry studied horn and composition at Baylor University and graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship he moved to Europe to study the horn with Hermann Baumann. Since then he has held the position of principal horn of the Gurzenich-Orchester Köln (Cologne, Germany) and is currently associate principal and third horn of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg. Shortly after joining the celebrated American Horn Quartet, with which he gives concerts all over the world, Kerry was awarded the Third Prize and Bronze Medal at the 1987 Prague Spring International Horn Competition. Since then he has been heard as soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestre de Radio-Télé Luxembourg, the Rundfunkorchester Saarbrücken, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Münchner Bachorchester and the Ensemble Moderne Frankfurt as well as being recitalist and chamber musician all around the world. Fortunately for Intermedii, Kerry is also an accomplished tenor who greatly enjoys singing and takes a very active part in devising our programs and deciding on our musical approach to the works we perform. We are always relieved when we hear that he is actually in Luxembourg and able to spend some time enhancing our rehearsals and concerts with his voice and musicianship and our post-rehearsal parties with his hair-raising travel anecdotes.

Kerry is also an accomplished composer. He has been awarded top prizes by the  International Horn Society and has been commissioned by several leading organizations. His works have been enthusiastically received in several of the great cultural centers of the world -- New York, London, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Tokyo, Chicago ... and Luxembourg (yes, he even writes for Intermedii).

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