Meghan Guegold, French horn
Meghan L. Guegold, originally from Mantua, Ohio, is a Master of Music candidate at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studies with Richard King, Principal Horn of the Cleveland Orchestra. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Horn Performance from the University of Akron School of Music in Akron, Ohio, where she studied with William Hoyt. While at Akron, Meghan was an honors student on the Dean’s List each semester, principal horn of the university’s Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Band, and performed regularly with other university chamber ensembles. Now, as a student at CIM, she is a member of a graduate brass quintet and woodwind quintet, while also frequently performing with the CIM Orchestras.
Meghan held the position of Second Horn in the Canton Symphony Orchestra from September 2007 until she won the position of Principal Horn in September of 2009. She has also been Third Horn in the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra since February 2007. In addition to these two contracted positions, Meghan is also a freelancer in the greater Cleveland Area, performing not only with the Cleveland Brass Quintet, but also with the Akron and Mansfield Symphony Orchestras, and as special accompaniment at local churches.
She is a recipient of two Tuesday Musical Society Scholarships (2005 and 2007). Meghan began her orchestral studies in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (2003-2005), and since then has played under the batons of Franz Welser-Möst, composer John Williams, David Robertson, and Peter Oundjian. Meghan has spent two summers as a horn fellow at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where she studied with David Jolley
and Eli Epstein.