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Aug 7, 2026 49 min

Dr. Natalie Grana

from The Alphorn Podcast Hosted by Dr. Natalie Grana, Sean Slatter

🎶 Dr. Natalie Grana! 🎶 Dr. Natalie Grana is a professional alphorn and French Horn artist, author, and educator. Dr. Grana is on faculty at DePaul University, Loyola University, Lake Forest College, Cormont Horn Camp, the Windy City Alphorn Retreat, the Alphorn Project, and the Alphorn Association of North America (AANA). Dr. Grana is a global authority on inner hearing and solfege training. She is a Fullbright Scholar who studied at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary. Dr. Grana is hornist with the Gaudete Brass, a Chicago-based brass quintet. She additionally performs regularly with the Alloy Horn Quartet, and the Rhinemaidens, also based in Chicago. Dr. Grana holds a D.M.A. in Horn Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and an MM in Horn Performance and BME in Instrumental Music Education from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her principal teachers include Randy Gardner, Bernhard Scully, Thomas Jostlein, and Kazimerz Machala. She studied solfege and voice under Agnes Gerges-Gal and Renata Darazs of the Liszt Academy of Music, Hungary. 📖 Buy Dr. Grana’s book: "A Singing Approach to Horn Playing," which is available through Oxford University Press and Amazon. Learn more about Dr. Natalie Grana and her work: https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/ndouglass https://www.luc.edu/dfpa/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/nataliegranadma.shtml https://www.gaudetebrass.com/bios https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780197603574/author/ https://horncamp.org/faculty/natalie-douglass-grana/ https://www.amazon.com/Singing-Approach-Horn-Playing-Training-ebook/dp/B0B5HJMN19 https://www.alphornassociation.org/team-3 🎺 Take a moment to learn more about Dr. Grana, explore her work, and check out her book, "A Singing Approach to Horn Playing"! We want to thank our sponsors ANNA and Alpensong

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