William Caballero Click here for photographs Download Mr. Caballero's biography (MS Word) Principal Horn Anonymous Foundation Chair William Caballero joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as Principal Horn in May of 1989, coming from the Principal Horn post with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Previously he had been a member of l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the Hartford Symphony. He also has played and been a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Houston Grand Opera, l’Opera de Montreal, the Opera Company of Boston, and the New England Ragtime Ensemble. Summer Festivals include The Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the Bellingham Music Festival of Bellingham, Washington Born in New Mexico and reared in Wisconsin, Mr. Caballero graduated from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Richard Mackey and Thomas Newell. Presently he is a faculty member at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also was an artist teacher at Carnegie Mellon University and at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music, Houston, Texas. He has presented master classes throughout North America, including the Orford Center for the Arts, Quebec, Canada, the New World Symphony, Miami Beach, Florida, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and the National Orchestral Institute, University of Maryland. Mr. Caballero also is a member of the artist board of the Summit Brass (an ensemble consisting of top brass players from major U.S. orchestras) and performs regularly with them. As a chamber musician, Mr. Caballero has collaborated with Joseph Silverstein, André Previn, and Christoph Eschenbach and appeared at the St. Barth’s Music Festival in the French West Indies and the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine. He also performs regularly with the Sewickley BACHfest in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass. In the fall of 1998 the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass released their first compact disc, J.S. Bach, The Art of Fugue. Their third recording, a compact disc of Holiday music was released in the fall of 2003. His recent solo and performance opportunities have included the first horn recital in the 75-year history of the Pittsburgh Y Music Society, a recital in Boston at the Northeastern Horn Conference hosted by The Boston Conservatory, performing live on NPR’s (National Public Radio) Performance Today with Pianist Orli Shaham and violinist Phillip Setzer, and participating in the Tokyo International Music Festival with the Super World Orchestra. In May of 1992 he performed the world premiere of the Benjamin Lees Concerto for Horn and Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the baton of then music director Lorin Maazel. Following the performances at Heinz Hall, he performed the Lees Concerto in Spain, Germany, and England while on tour with the PSO. In May of 1996, Mr. Caballero recorded the concerto with the PSO for New World Records. Previous solo performances with the PSO include the Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Maazel and Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2 with Maestro André Previn. In December of 2002, William performed the Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Maestro Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and tenor Anthony Griffey. In January of 2004 he performed the Schumann Konzertstuck for Four Horns with his colleagues under the baton of Maestro John Eliot Gardiner. William Caballero holds the PSO’s Anonymous Foundation Principal Horn Endowed Chair. He resides in Sewickley, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathleen, Principal Cellist with the Pittsburgh Opera, and their two daughters and son, Margaret, Elinor, and William Jr.