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Corbin Wagner
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Kansas City-born Corbin Wagner received his bachelor’s degree in 1979 from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Professor Louis Stout. Upon graduation he became a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and later his master’s degree from Michigan in 1989.
Wagner has received many prestigious performing honors, including a prize at the 1983 Munich International Horn Competition. He also took first prize at the Heldenleben International Horn Competition in hand horn, valve horn and horn quartet. In May 1989 and later in 2002, Wagner joined three of his colleagues and the DSO in performing Robert Schumann’s Konzertstück for four horns and orchestra.
In spite of his busy schedule, Wagner also performs with the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. In April 1994, he performed Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2 as a guest with the Farmington Philharmonic, and in 1998 he performed Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 with the Pontiac-Oakland Symphony.
Wagner is an adjunct professor of horn at Oakland University. He is also an experienced clinician who teaches horn privately and serves as a keyboard player and worship leader at Faith Presbyterian Church in Rochester. Wagner and his wife, Wendy, have five children.