DOUGLAS LYONS

MUSIC DIRECTOR / HORN

 

SOLO PERFORMANCES

Rome, Aspen, Los Angeles, New York,  Zagreb, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Budva

 

REVIEWS

"Doug was the best thing to happen to our horn section on tour". - Columbia Artists Management

"My goodness..., that's a mightily impressive performance"   Anthony Halstead, - Conductor, international horn soloist 

"Douglas Lyons, principal hornist, dazzled the crowd of celebrants with his performance in Richard Strauss’ Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in E flat.”  (Los Angeles) - Pasadena Star News 

“...Douglas Lyons' exquisite horn playing”.  Altamura Opera Festival. Hudson-Catskill Newspapers

“The horn player in particular distinguished himself.”   Robert Finn, - Cleveland Plain Dealer 

“ ..... a warm performance that stressed the tenderness of the superb horn solo in the Andante cantabile.” (Carnegie Hall) - Newark Star Ledger 

“ The horn solo floated out as an intimate, poignant statement of numbing beauty.” - Ann Arbor News

 

ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES

Los Angeles Philharmonic, I Solisti di Zagreb, Martha Graham Company, Grammy Awards, Belgrade Opera, New York Philharmonic, MTV Awards, New York City Ballet, Aspen Choral Society, New Jersey Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,  Zagreb Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, Moscow Radio Symphony (U.S. tour),  “Salute to Vienna” concerts (Lincoln Center, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., New Brunswick State Theater), Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg Symphony (U.S. tour), Orange County Master Chorale, Belgrade Radio Orchestra, Philadelphia Boys Choir, Hollywood Bowl, California Philharmonic, Fresno Opera, Savoy Company (Phila.), Pasadena Pops, Opera a la Carte, Streetlight Manifesto, Andrea Bocelli, Aretha Franklin, Deadmau5, Il Divo, 3 Irish Tenors, Jesse Norman, Sarah McLachlan, Tony Bennett, Whitney Houston, Yanni.
 
CONDUCTORS
Lorin Maazel,  John Adams, John WIlliams, Valilij Sinjajski, Richard Woitach, Philippe Entremont, Zdenek Macal, Nicholas McGeegan, Michelle Plausons, Helmuth Rilling, Leonard Slatkin, Hugh Wolff, Jorge Mester, Matthias Fletzberger, Lovro von Matacic, Jerry Goldsmith,  James DePriest.
 
FESTIVALS 
Aspen, Oregon Summer Music Festival, Grant Park, Bruckner Festival (Linz, Austria), St. Cerilio (Rome), Dubrovnik, Belgrade, Zagreb.
 
RECORDINGS

“Lyons Chamber Players Sampler”
Harmonie Ensemble ("Sketches of Spain" "Tchaikovsky Nutcracker")
California Philharmonic Winds ("Serenades of Mozart and Strauss")
Zagreb Philharmonic ("Scheherazade"," J. Strauss’ Waltzes", "Djavo u Selu")
The Simpsons ("Testify")
Deadmau5 ("Where'stheDrop?")
Rickie Lee Jones (“Traffic from Paradise”)

 

BROADWAY

Phantom, Lion King, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Curtains.

 
 FILM AND TV PROJECTS

Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, Walker Texas Ranger, Absolute Strangers, Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Amazing Stories, American Dad, Batman Superman Cartoon, Best of Times, The Bible, Big, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures, Bird on a Wire, Born to Ride, (aka The Recruit), Boston Public, Boys, Bump in the Night, Cagney and Lacey, Causal Sex, Child's Play 2, Charles and Di unhappily ever After, China Beach, Christmas Comes to Willow Creek, Columbo, Crazy in Alabama, Darkman, The Day Lincoln was shot, Devil in a Blue Dress, Disney's Raw Toonage, Disorganized Crime, Family Matters, The Flash,  Fletch 2, Freaky Friday, Futurama, Geronimo, Gordy, Greatest Adventure, Hangin' with Mrs. Cooper, Hollywood Homicide, Infinite Voyage, Jazz on Film, Jungle Cubs, King of the Hill, Kirk, Knot's Landing, The Last Guardsman, League of their Own, Leopard Son, Love and Basketball, Lost in America, Malone, Medusa's Child, Memoirs of an invisible man, Mrs. Doubtfire, Murder She Wrote, Mystery Men, Napoleon and Josephine (mini series), National Geographic (Cats, caressing the Tiger, Nat. Geo., Northern Exposure, Survivors of the Skeleton Coast, Nightjohn, Paint it Black, Past the Bleachers, Picket Fences, Presumed innocent,  Sasquatch (Bigfoot), Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Simpsons, Space above and Beyond, Star Struck, Step by Step, Striking Distance, Superman (TV),   Throw  Mama from the Train, The Titanic (mini series), True Lies, Two Babies Switched at Birth, Walker Texas Ranger, Waxwork, When a Man loves a Woman (Significant Other), X-files the Movie, You know my Name, Grammy Awards, MTV Awards