STUART HORN earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in oboe performance from California Institute of the Arts where he was a scholarship student of Allan Vogel.He is oboist with Southwest Chamber Music and performs with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Asia American Symphony of Los Angeles,Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, Mozart Camerata, California Double Reed Quartet and frequently in productions with Los Angeles Music Center Opera.He is a member of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival Orchestra and has performed with the New Music America, Olympic Arts, Ojai and Holland festivals both as a soloist and in the festival orchestras. Mr. Horn has recorded for Nonesuch, Capitol, Philips and Cambria Records. He is on the woodwind faculty at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and teaches for the California State Summer School for the Arts. He performed on Southwest Chamber Music’s Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez, Volumes 1 and 2, which received consecutive 2003 and 2004 GRAMMY® Awards.