Prof Darryl Poulsen
Professor, School of Arts
Qualifications
DMus (UWA), MMus (UWA), DipSupMus (Liège), DipMus (Lux), DipMusdeCh (Lux)
Contact
| Email: | dpoulsen@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) LG 15 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2478 (or +61 2 6773 2478 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Professor Darryl Poulsen is currently Head of the School of Arts at the University of New England. In addition to this academic position, he is also the principal horn with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in Sydney.
Darryl Poulsen has formerly held the positions of Winthrop Professor of Music and Head of the School of Music at The University of Western Australia, and Professor of Music, Associate Dean (Academic) at the Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. He graduated with distinction from the Conservatoria of Luxembourg, and Liège, Belgium in the horn classes of Professor Francis Orval, and holds the degrees of Doctor of Music and Master of Music from The University of Western Australia.
Darryl Poulsen has held principal horn positions in European and Australian orchestras and performed throughout Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia. As a soloist, he has toured nationally with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and internationally with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as well as occupying the position of principal horn in the latter orchestra for many years.
Darryl Poulsen has commissioned numerous new works for horn, had works written especially for him, and given numerous première performances. He is also committed to historically informed early music performance, playing baroque and classical natural horns, as well as the romantic horn. As a player of historical natural horns, he has performed and recorded as principal horn and soloist with The Joshua Rifken New York Bach Ensemble, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Ton Koopman, Andreas Scholl, Anthony Halstead, Bart Van Oort, Cantus Cölln and the Syrius Ensemble Sydney.
His research into classical hand-horn playing has resulted in the publication of the first English translation of the Méthode de premier et de second cor by Heinrich Domnich, the most important primary source on the history of classical hand-horn playing.
As a teacher, Darryl Poulsen has given master classes throughout Australia, Sweden and Asia and the United States of America. He attracted horn students to his class at The University of Western Australia from every major Australian city, Singapore, Switzerland, Moldova and the United States. A number of his students can now be found in Australian and European professional symphony, opera and ballet orchestras.