Welcome to the 2nd Annual Louisiana Horn Day!
Join us for this FREE event at Northwestern State University in the historic town of Natchitoches, Louisiana. All horn players are welcome regardless of skill level or state origin!
Matt Meadows remains in-demand as a soloist, chamber musician and clinician. In recent years, he has earned top prizes in numerous solo competitions. In 2019, he was awarded second-prize in the International Horn Competition of America University Division. Most recently, he was named the “National Winner” in the MTNA Young Artist Competition, winner of the International Phoenix Music Competition for Horn Duos, winner of the 2021 Southeast Horn Workshop Graduate Solo Competition, winner of the 2021 Kappa Kappa Psi Biennial Solo Competition, and winner of the 2022 United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” National Collegiate Solo Competition.
In addition to his passion for solo performance, Matt is an active chamber musician. He is the principal horn of the Capstone Horn Quartet, also known as “Tater and the Tots.” Since the group’s inception in 2017, the Capstone Horn Quartet has been awarded first-prize in both the Southeast Horn Workshop Quartet Competition and the International Horn Society Summer Symposium Amateur Quartet Competition.
Matt is currently the Principal Horn of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra, Co-Principal Horn of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, and Third Horn of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera. He has substituted with orchestras such as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra.
Matt is also currently a graduate teaching assistant at The University of Alabama, where he is finishing up his Doctor of Musical Arts in Horn Performance. His principal teacher is Charles “Skip” Snead.
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Josiah Bullach serves as Associate and Assistant Principal Horn of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Since his appointment to the LPO in 2016, Josiah has played an active role as a performer, recording artist, and educator. He is on faculty at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, on the board of the New Orleans Chamber Players, and is passionate about music education in the greater New Orleans area.
Beyond Louisiana, Josiah has been a guest performer with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Cleveland City Chamber Orchestra, Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Firelands Symphony Orchestra, and WindSync. In 2022, he won Second Prize in the International Horn Competition of America.
A native of Ohio, Josiah began taking horn lessons from his uncle Ron Kurzen at the age of eight. He then went on to receive his Bachelor of Music degree from the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music where he studied with Jesse McCormick. He was a prize winner of the Tuesday Musical Association Scholarship Competition, a featured soloist with the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony for their 2012 European concert tour, and a soloist at both Baldwin Wallace University and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory or Music, where he continued graduate studies as a student of Randy Gardner.
When not playing horn, Josiah enjoys an active lifestyle of running, CrossFit, and neighborhood walks with his wife, Alli, and their dog.