Meet Greg Flint

Greg Flint, Horn

Greg Flint is Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Prior to his UWM appointment, he taught horn at DePaul University and brass chamber music at his alma mater, Northwestern University. As a soloist, clinician, and chamber musician he has performed and given master classes in Spain, Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, Taiwan, and throughout the United States. As an orchestral musician, he is principal horn of the Elgin Symphony, and has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony, Colorado Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony and the Key West Symphony. Recently Mr. Flint performed several seasons as a long-term replacement player with the Milwaukee Symphony. During the summer months, Greg is a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.

A strong advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Flint has had several solo compositions written for him, and performed numerous world premieres with such groups as Present Music, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the Contemporary Chamber Players, and on the Chamber Music Milwaukee, and Music from Almost Yesterday concert series.

His long held position as first horn with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra has provided him opportunities to perform and record with such jazz luminaries as Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Jon Faddis, Ernie Watts, and Frank Sinatra.