French Horn
William Hughes, Principal French Horn
Joseph Demko
Joseph Demko is an active performer, and currently holds the positions of Second Horn in the Albany Symphony, Fourth Horn in the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, and Second Horn in Opera Saratoga. He also regularly performs with Nashville Opera and Orchestra Kentucky. Previously, he has held the positions of Second Horn in the Atlantic Symphony, Fourth Horn in the Plymouth Philharmonic, and has performed with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, New Haven Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Tucson Symphony, and many others. He is an active studio musician and has played on many television shows, movies, video games, and commercial albums, as well as many recordings with the Albany Symphony.
Joseph is also an active music educator and teaches privately in Nashville. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Daniel Katzen and Richard Mackey of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has also studied with Deborah Stephenson of the USAF Band, and both horn and conducting with Sylvia Alimena of the National Symphony Orchestra. Joseph started playing horn in the Alexandria, VA public schools, and currently resides in Nashville, TN.