James Thatcher

James Thatcher is a musician, specialized in playing the French Horn, who worked for Dennis McCarthy, Ron Jones, and Jerry Goldsmith on episodes of and two .
Thatcher has been the lead French horn player for composers such as John Williams, James Newton Howard, James Horner, Steve Jablonsky, Hans Zimmer, Brian Tyler, and Alan Silvestri. His brother George Thatcher is also a musician, performing the bass trombone on several film soundtracks and his sister Jan Chamberlin is a singer and vocal coach. 
Thatcher himself has started his career at the age of 16, performing and studying with his uncle George Thatcher, former principal hornist with the National Symphony of Mexico. He has been a member of the Phoenix Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Pacific Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and is currently principal horn of the Pasadena Symphony, the New West Symphony and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera.
He received the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences as the most often heard horn player in the world, performing in 70 to 80 film scores in the last 27 years. Thatcher is also co-professor of horn at the USC Thornton School of Musics located in Los Angeles, California.
Among his over 1,000 film scores are (1979) and (1982), (1983), (1985), (1985), (1984-1986), (1987), (1987), (1988), (1988), (1989), (1989), (1990), and (both 1990), and (both 1991), (1992), (1992), and (both 1993), (1994) and (1995), (1996), (1996), (1997), (1997), (1999), (2000), (2001), (2001), (2002), (2005), (2006), (2006, directed by Justin Lin), and (2007), (2009, starring Zoe Saldana), and (both 2011), (2011), (2011), and (2011), (2012), (2013), (2013), (2013), (2013), (2014), (2014), (2014), (2015), (2015, directed and produced by J.J. Abrams), (2016), (2016), (2016), (2016), (2017), (2017), (2017), (2018), (2018), (2019), (2021), and (2023).
== Star Trek credits ==
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== External links ==
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