John Cox
International Recording & Performing Artist

"The Marcinkeiwicz Co. family of French horn mouthpieces makes it possible for one player to truly be able to 'Do it All.'"

John plays Marcinkiewicz™ Concert Hall™ "COX" Model EF21 mouthpiece with a "B" rim.

Testimony

Praise from popular French horn instructor, John Cox:

The last 30 years have seen dramatic improvements in efficiencies in horns, and in teaching. Horns have become more specialized in their uses, and many professional players have several instruments to fit the ever changing needs of either repertoire or type of performance. Often, these instruments play and feel differently from each other, and can lead to a period of adapting to the instrument before feeling the confidence of a successful performance. And with all this change, hornists insist on not changing the one element that is probably keeping them from maximum success. The element they fear most to change. The element that can have the most critical influence on success. The mouthpiece.

Enter to the stage a new concept in mouthpieces by Marcinkiewicz Co. The family relationship. The concept is to have a related, carefully proportioned family of horn mouthpieces that retain a sense of familiarity to the player, while allowing the same player to switch instruments and styles with greater ease and confidence than ever before. Marcinkiewicz Co. recognizes today's performance artists use many different styles of instruments, and for many different reasons. Mouthpieces must help bridge the ease of moving from one style of instrument to another, and make the move as comfortable as possible.

By having a family of mouthpieces allowing the hornist to keep the same proportional feel in instruments when a change is made, the hornist can perform with greater confidence and meet the wider demands of modern performance.

Marcinkiewicz Co. French horn mouthpieces allow hornists to move their rim from one cup to the next, letting the player keep the sameness in `first contact' the same. Cups, bores, and back bores are carefully proportioned. When the player thinks of changing styles, and not just instruments alone, putting a mouthpiece together with a horn makes perfect sense to keep the same `familiar' feelings of resistance and proportion.

Marcinkiewicz Co. wants to aid hornists in being able to perform always at their best. There is no finer compliment for the performer than to be known as able to "Do It All."
Marcinkiewicz Co. family of French horn mouthpieces makes it possible for one player to truly be able to "Do it All."

Biography
John Cox is Principal French Horn for the Oregon Symphony. Complimenting his orchestral work, he is a member of the acclaimed Mainly Mozart Festival of San Diego, and Chamber Music Northwest with David Shifrin. He can be heard in Oregon Symphony recordings, broadcasts, and his own solo releases

John Cox has been a member of the Oregon Symphony for 23 years, and Principal Horn for the last 20. As a soloist in front of the orchestra, Mr. Cox has been featured numerous times with the Oregon Symphony, recently in March 2004 performing the Mozart Horn Concerto #4 with David Atherton conducting. He joinedJulie Landsman, Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera, in a Double Concerto by Telemann in June 2005 at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego. He also has appeared with many smaller ensembles in the Northwest as soloist, including concertos with the Eugene Mozart Players and the Tacoma Symphony.

Mr. Cox's accomplishments with the Oregon Symphony have led to other notable engagements. He is a 16-year member of Chamber Music Northwest, David Shifrin, Music Director, and has served as Principal Horn of the Cascade Music Festival, Murry Sidlin, Music Director. He is also a 14-year member of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, David Atherton, Music Director. During 2002 he toured with the "Orchestra of the Californias" in Mexico and California, and in December 2002 he performed Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. He is also a consultant for Marcinkiewicz Co., endorsing their line of horn mouthpieces.

Solo work has permitted him to become a frequent recitalist throughout the West, as well as a clinician for Master Classes in regional communities and out of the Northwest. He has been a guest recitalist and clinician for the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, University of Oregon, University of Evansville, and the Interlochen Arts Academy. In February 2005 he gave Master Class presentations at both Rice University and the University of Houston, and gave a March 2005 Master Class presentation at Yale University. A recital in late April, 2005 at the Oregon Coast on behalf of the Oregon Symphony saw him and his long time piano associate, Katherine George, Principal Keyboard of the Oregon Symphony, partnered for the first time with new Oregon Symphony Concertmaster, Amy Schwarz-Moretti.

Mr. Cox and Ms. George have a solo album on the Centaur label that was hailed by American Record Guide as "one of the best chamber music releases of 1992." A second CD was released on the Centaur label in the spring of 1998 featuring Mr. Cox's horn section of the Oregon Symphony and Friends. The music includes transcriptions of Bach and Mendelssohn works for large horn choirs. Mr. Cox has been recognized by The San Diego Tribune as a "wonderfully controlled French Hornist," The Oregonian as having "agile technique and an elegant way with the music," and has been mentioned in numerous reviews for his leading of the Oregon Symphony Horn Section.

Before his arrival in Oregon Mr. Cox was Associate Principal Horn of the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal of Caracas, Venezuela. He holds a Masters Degree in Horn Performance from Boston University and a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from the University of Evansville, IN (1978). His principal teachers include Paul Nolte, Charles Kavalovski, Philip Farkas, Shirley Snethen, and Michael Hatfield.


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