About Me
As both performer and teacher, my goal is to share my passion for making music on the horn with others....
Dr. Brianna Volkmann (she/her) is an emerging orchestral and chamber performer, and an avid music educator currently based in Kansas City, Missouri.
As an educator, Brianna currently serves as the Adjunct Professor of Horn at Missouri Western State University. She also enjoys working with her students in the Blue Valley (KS) and Blue Springs (MO) school districts, where she is a regular instructor and clinician. Additionally, she teaches students of all ages in her private horn studio that she has maintained for the last eight years.
As an orchestral performer, Brianna is the acting assistant principal hornist of the Topeka Symphony, and the principal hornist of the Kansas City Civic Orchestra and the Kinnor Philharmonic. She is also a regular substitute member of the Kansas City Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Wichita Grand Opera, and St. Joseph Symphony.
As a chamber musician, Brianna performs regularly with the MWSU Faculty Brass Quintet, and makes up one half of the newly formed State Line Horn Duo. She also served three years as the hornist of Plaza Winds, the graduate fellowship woodwind quintet at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, where she recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Horn Performance.
Brianna’s DMA research focuses on the solo and chamber music for horn by 20th century Hungarian Composer, Frigyes Hidas. Her research goal is to introduce the horn community to Hidas and his horn music, raise awareness and appreciation for his horn writing, and provide resources that improve accessibility so that his music can be programmed more on horn recitals all across the globe. She had the privilege of presenting her research at the 56th International Horn Society Symposium in July of 2024.
Brianna holds prior Horn Performance degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (MM) and the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory (BM). Her primary teachers include Alberto Suarez, Denise Tryon, Martin Hackleman, Jeff Nelsen, Dale Clevenger, Richard Seraphinoff, and Jesse McCormick.