Michael A. Harcrow

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Michael A. Harcrow, horn, is a Texas native who holds music degrees from West Texas A&M University and the University of Miami, and he is currently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Texas. For nearly fourteen years, Mike was an active performer and teacher in South Korea where he held faculty positions at Mokwon University in Taejon and at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul. He was concurrently principal horn in the Korean Symphony Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Center. While in Korea, he established the Notabene Wind Quintet and the East-West Horn Ensemble, and he was often seen performing both chamber and symphonic repertoire on national television broadcasts there. In the United States, he has been a member of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra, the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra, the South Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Miami City Ballet Orchestra, and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, in addition to performing regularly with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, among others. Concerto performances include solos with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Melomania Chamber Orchestra, and the Cheju City Symphony, as well as with the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, and Collegium Baroque Orchestra on natural horn. Mike held a three-year teaching fellowship at the University of North Texas and has served as adjunct instructor of horn at Texas Woman’s University and Midwestern State University. Currently, he resides in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Johanna, where he is Assistant Professor of Music at Messiah College teaching horn and music theory.