A Detroit native, Seraphinoff is an award-winning horn player who has performed with virtually every Baroque and Classical orchestra in the United States, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Mozartean Players of New York. Seraphinoff is also a well-known maker of historical reproductions of Baroque and Classical natural horns. He holds degrees in horn performance from Wayne State University and Indiana University and has studied with Lowell Greer, Philip Farkas and Meir Rimon, among others. Seraphinoff will perform with the period string quartet Cornucopia in a program of chamber works for horn and strings of the Classical and Romantic periods Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m. in Barnes Hall. In his only other concert appearance, Seraphinoff will join Cornell faculty members Malcolm Bilson on fortepiano and soprano Judith Kellock in a program of works by Schubert, Kruft and Beethoven Tuesday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.
All performances are free.