Jennifer Montone joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as principal horn in 2006. She is on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, and Temple University. Previously principal horn of the Saint Louis Symphony, and associate principal horn of the Dallas Symphony, she was an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University, and performer/faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Prior to her tenure in Dallas she was third horn of the New Jersey Symphony and performed regularly with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. She has appeared widely as a soloist and chamber musician and in 2006 was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant. She is also the winner of the 1996 Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year Award in London and the 1998 Philadelphia Concerto Soloists Competition. She was a Fellow in the Tanglewood Music Festival Orchestra in 1996 and 1997. Jennifer Montone is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Julie Landsman, principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera.