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 musician, and an avid music educator currently based in Kansas City, Missouri.
As an educator, she serves as the Adjunct Professor of Horn at Missouri Western State University. Additionally, she has maintained a private horn studio of her own for the last eight years, and works as a regular horn instructor and clinician in the Blue Valley School District in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Blue Springs School District in Blue Springs, Missouri.
As an orchestral performer, she 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, she served three years as the hornist of Plaza Winds, the graduate fellowship woodwind quintet at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. With Plaza Winds, she regularly performed in the Kansas City community at local schools, hospitals, and nursing homes. In the spring of 2023, the quintet was selected as semifinalists for the Plowman Chamber Music Competition in Columbia, Missouri. She has a number of other upcoming chamber projects that she is excited to share more information about soon...
She recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Horn Performance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, and holds prior 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.