French Horn Player

Jacek Muzyk is a polish french horn player. Jacek was born in Ploland and lived in poland for most of his life. He began his career of playing the ferench horn at the age of seven. Jacek becan playing jazz piano and enjoyed it, however he began intensely studying the french horn at eighteen years of age.

Jacek Muzyk attemded the Academy of Music in Krakow and graduated with a Masters degree in music, with french horn as his principle instrument. Muzyk also completed anoth masters degree at Mannes College of Music in New York. In New York he studied with the famous soloist, David Jolley.

Jacek Muzyk also attended Julliard with a full scholarship and continued studying at Rice University in Houston (TX).

Upon return to Poland, Muzyk began conducting well-known large orchestras. In Poland there is a group of Poland's finest musicians is called Krystian Zimerman's Polish Festival Orchestra. In 1999 Jacek was selected as the principal horn player and toured Europe and United States with the group. With this group Jacek won a grammy and was invited to join othere Orchestras.

Jacek continued being a principle horn player, or a featured horn player with American Orchestras and European Orchestras throughout his life.

Recently as a soloist, Jacek Muzyk recorded two cds. The first was all four Mozart concertos and the second was Bach cello suites in transcryption for French horn.

I chose to reserach him because he studied at not one post secondary school, but four. I also was interested in how Jacek studied in Europe and in America. Judging by his biography he is a well rounded musician and world renowned.