Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire and performers to be announcedAbout Myron BloomMyron Bloom was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 18, 1926, and enjoyed one of his generation's most distinguished musical careers. After one year of study at the Eastman School of Music, he was appointed principal horn of the New Orleans Symphony. In 1955, he was appointed principal solo horn of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell, where he remained until 1977. Bloom was also solo horn of the Casals Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico, and in 1977, at the invitation of Daniel Barenboim, he became principal solo horn of the Orchestre de Paris until 1985. He was a member of the Marlboro Music Festival from its inception and performed many times with the Budapest Quartet. Bloom was appointed professor of music in horn at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1985, retiring in 2016. He taught at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1982 to 2001 and at Carnegie Mellon University from 1993 to 2001. He was chairman of horn studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1961 to 1977 and also taught at the Oberlin Conservatory, Juilliard School of Music, Boston University, and Conservatoire National Superieur de Music de Paris. He performed under Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne Festival and with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. In addition to representing the United States as a jury member in the International Geneva Horn Competition, he served on juries in Canada. Among the most important contributions in his vast career as a recording artist is Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major with George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra, which was selected by Sony Classical in 1997 for a special edition reissue in its Cleveland Orchestra Masterworks Heritage Series and for Marlboro Music with Rudolf Serkin. Landmark recordings also include Schubert's "Auf Dem Strom" and Brahms' Horn Trio, with Rudolf Serkin and Michael Tree, which was selected by Sony Classical for its Marlboro Festival 40th Anniversary series.