James Thatcher

James Thatcher

James Thatcher began his professional career at the age of 16 when he played and studied in Mexico City with his uncle, Gerald Thatcher, former principal hornist with the National Symphony of Mexico. Subsequent instructors have included Fred Fox, Don Peterson, Wendell Hoss, James Decker, Vincent DeRosa and master classes with Hermann Baumann. Mr. Thatcher has been a member of the Phoenix Symphony, the Utah Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Today, he is principal horn of the Pasadena Symphony and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera but principally he is a studio player, a recipient of the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences and "arguably the most often heard horn player in the world" due to his performances on some 70 to 80 films per year for the last 15 years. Jim has the enviable position of being the favored first horn of multiple Oscar winning composer John Williams performing in such films as "Always", "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World", "Sleepers" (in which he received an on-screen credit), "Nixon", "Schindler's List", "JFK", "Sabrina", "Home Alone", "Rosewood", "Seven Years in Tibet" and "The Patriot" as well as the fanfare for the 1992 Olympics. He also works regularly with other Hollywood greats Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Randy Newman, John Barry, James Horner and Alan Silvestri to name a few and can be heard as well in the tracks to "Glory", "The Rocketeer", "Field of Dreams", "Monster House", ', "Robots", "Spider-Man 3", "Ice Age", "Polar Express", "Beowulf", "Dances with Wolves", "Toy Story", "Cars", "Maverick", "Apollo 13", "Forrest Gump", "Titanic", "Pearl Harbor", "Constantine", "National Treasure", "Transformers", "The Simpsons Movie", "Night at the Museum", "Dinosaur", ', "King Kong", "Signs", "Lady in the Water", "Peter Pan", "First Knight", "Hook" as well as "Independence Day", and the "Star Trek movies".

Thatcher has joined Kristy Morrell on the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music as the co-professor of Horn.

External links

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* [http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/private/faculty/jthatche.php James Thatcher's biography at USC Thornton]


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