darryl poulsen
Horn
Darryl Poulsen is a Professor of Music and Associate Dean, Academic, at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.
Darryl graduated with distinction from the Conservatoria of Luxembourg, and Liège, Belgium in the horn classes of Professor Francis Orval. He holds the degrees of Doctor of Music and Master of Music from The University of Western Australia. 
Darryl Poulsen is the principal horn with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and has held similar positions in European and Australian orchestras. He has performed throughout Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia. As a soloist, he has toured nationally and internationally with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as well as formerly occupying the position of principal horn in that orchestra for many years. Darryl has commissioned numerous new works for horn, had works written specially for him, and given numerous première performances.
Darryl Poulsen is also committed to historically informed early music performance, playing both baroque and classical natural horns. As a player of historical natural horns, he has performed and recorded as principal horn and soloist with The Joshua Rifken New York Bach Ensemble, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Anthony Halstead, Geoffrey Lancaster, Bart Van Oort, Cantus Cölln and the Syrius Ensemble Sydney. His research into classical hand-horn playing has resulted in the publication of the first English translation of the Méthode de premier et de second cor by Heinrich Domnich, the most important primary source on the history of classical hand-horn playing.
