Tom Dettman – French Horn
I started playing french horn in 1962 at the age of 10. My first teacher was Martin Morris of the Cleveland Orchestra. Other teachers included Willard Darling and Charles Weaver of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. I spent three Summers at National Music Camp in Interlochen, MI, twice as a state participant and once as part of the international, eight-week program. Marvin Howe was one of my instructors that final Summer. I studied music education and horn performance at Miami University in Ohio under Nicholas Poccia.
For the past 20 years or so, I have played and performed as a member of community orchestras, concert bands, various musical productions, horn clubs and church services. I had the privilege of being section leader as well as board member for the Judson Civic Orchestra in Elgin, IL. I currently perform with the Aiken Concert Band and Aiken Civic Orchestra. The following is my performance experience for stage productions and orchestra.
Sampling of Performance Experience
Theater Productions
My Fair Lady
Mary Poppins
The King and I
Pirates of Penzance
Oklahoma
Brigadoon
Fiddler on the Roof
Copeland
Outdoor Overture
Quiet City
Fanfare for the Common Man
Haydn
Symphony No. 92 in G
Symphony No. 94 in G
Symphony No. 100 in G (Military)
Symphony No. 104 in D
Trumpet Concerto in E-flat
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat (horn 2)
Symphony No. 1 in C
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat
Symphony No. 5 in C-minor
Symphony No. 6 in F
The Ruins of Athens
Egmont Overture
Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Mozart
The Magic Flute Overture
Concerto for Clarinet in A, K 622
Symphony No. 31 in D major
Symphony No. 41 in C
Don Giovanni Overture
Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for Violin and Viola
Overture from Cosi Fan Tutte
Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor
Overture to Rosamunde
Handel
Concerto No. 3 in F for Double Winds
Royal Fireworks
Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Stokowski)
Borrodin
Polovtsian Dance in D minor
Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Symphony No. 2 in D
Academic Festival Overture
Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46
Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16
Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D
Finlandia
Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italian, Op. 4
Symphony No. 2 in C minor
Symphony No. 5 in E minor
1812 Overture
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 (Reformation)
Hummel
Concerto in E-flat for Trumpet
Vaughn Williams
Fantasia on Greeensleeves
Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf
Symphony No. 1
Rossini
Overture from La Cenerentola
Overture from La Gazza Ladra
Schumann
Concerto for Piano in A minor
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat
Pucccini
I crisantemi
Recondita armonia
E lucevan le stelle
Che gelida manina
Nessun dorma
Mahler
Symphony No. 1
Richard Strauss
Serenade for 13 Winds
Ravel
Pavanne Pour Une Enfant Défunt
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Barber
Essay No. 1 for Orchestra 1937
Faure
Pelleas at Melisande
Requiem
Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 64
Symphony No. 4 in A
Overture and Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fingal’s Cave (Hebrides) Overture
Dvorak
American Suite in A
Symphony No. 8 in G
Arthur Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan Overture
Bizet
Symphony in C
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Guitar Concerto in D
Glinka
Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Gounod
Petite Symphonie
Wagner
Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla – Das Rheingold
Telemann
Concerto Polonaise
Handel
Concerto No. 3 in F for Double Winds
Fireworks
von Weber
Der Freischutz Overture
Elgar
Enigma Variations
Chopin
Piano Concerto in F-minor, no. 2
Bernstein
Symphonic Dances Suite from West Side Story
Candide
John Williams
Star Wars Suite
Poulenc
Gloria
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana
Offenbach
Orpheus in the Underworld Overture
Holst
The Planets: Mars, Jupiter
Smetana
Ma Vlast (Moldau) My Fatherland