Richard Hein, Horn

Richard Hein graduated from the Manhattan School of Music after attending there on a full scholarship. He studied with Richard C. Moore, first hornist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for many years.  He also studied with Phillip Farkas at the Aspen Music Festival and Carmine Caruso, among others.
He performed extensively with numerous symphony orchestras, including the New Jersey Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony.
He played in various Broadway shows, opera and show tours and with many chamber music groups, touring throughout the USA and Canada with the Linden Quintet and through Switzerland with the Manhattan Woodwind Quintet.
He makes his home in the New York area and now works full time at his own company, Hein Computing, Inc. as a computer consultant.
He still plays with the quintet and on various other musical engagements.
Writings include Precise Intonation for Performing Musicians.