Horn Masterclass with MET Orchestra Third Horn Javier Gándara
MET Orchestra Musicians Master Classes
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Program
February 1, 2026: Horn
– Panelist: Javier Gándara
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1; I. Allegro
Saint-Saëns: Morceau de concert, Op. 94
Orchestral Excerpts by Berlioz, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Strauss
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HORN: February 1, 2026
Javier Gándara - Third Horn
Javier Gándara has been a member of the Met Opera Orchestra since 1999. He began his professional career at age sixteen, when he won a position in the Puerto Rico Symphony while attending high school at La Escuela Libre de Música in San Juan. Javier later graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied with Ranier De Intinis. He has held positions with the Orquesta del Principado de Asturias, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta de Euskadi, and the Oregon Symphony. He is on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard Pre-College.
THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA
Thrilling audiences with more than 200 performances each season, the MET Orchestra is one of the world’s great performing ensembles, both on stage and in the opera pit. Since its founding in 1883, the MET Orchestra’s performances have encompassed not only the entire opera repertoire, but symphonic and chamber programs at Carnegie Hall, international tours, and countless musician activities outside of the Metropolitan Opera House. The MET Orchestra has grown in the past four decades into an ensemble noted by singers, critics, conductors, and audiences as one of today’s most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.
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