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MSG Harry Ditzel Master Sergeant Harry F. Ditzel, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the principal hornist in the Concert Band and a member of the Heritage Brass Quintet. He also holds the third horn position with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and is an active soloist and chamber music performer throughout the Northeast. In 2000, he played the world premiere performance of Joseph Bertolozzi’s The Contemplation of Bravery for solo horn and band. He has performed with such artists as James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Moody Blues, ELO (Electric Light Orchestra, Robert Goulet and Tony Randall; and recorded with Jay Ansill, Richard Schulman, John Cale, Danielle Woerner and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from the New School of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Randy Gardner and A. Kendall Betts. SFC Troy Messner SSG Nicholas Caluori
A native of
Springfield, Virginia, Staff Sergeant Nicholas Caluori holds a
Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from Florida State University,
where he studied with William Capps and a Master of Music from
Southern Methodist University, where he studied with Greg Hustis.
His undergraduate honors thesis, The Musical Life of Lorenzo
Sansone, was published in the February 2005 edition of The Horn
Call.
At the age of 15, Staff Sgt. Caluori won a fellowship with the National Symphony Orchestra and is also the inaugural winner of the International Horn Society Barry Tuckwell Scholarship. In August of 2005, Staff Sgt. Caluori placed second in the University Division of the International Horn Competition of America. Prior to joining the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point in August of 2006, Staff Sgt. Caluori performed with the Dallas, Jacksonville and Tallahassee Symphony Orchestras. He has also played with the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute and Voices of Change, the award-winning modern chamber music ensemble in Dallas, Texas. His principal teachers have also included Edwin C. Thayer, Kendall Betts, Kevin Reid, and his father, Marco Caluori of the U.S. Army Band. SSG Joshua Phillips Staff Sergeant Joshua Phillips is originally from Newfoundland, New Jersey and joined the U.S. Military Academy Concert Band in February of 2006. Staff Sgt. Phillips holds a Bachelor of Music with an Outside Field (B.M.O.) in Multimedia Design from Ithaca College and finished his graduate studies at Northwestern University in the Spring of 2005. He has studied with Jerry Peel, Alex Shuhan, William Barnewitz and Gail Williams. Staff Sgt. Phillips has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. He has also appeared with the International Contemporary Ensemble and Rhythm and Brass.
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