Doctor of Music degree in Horn Performance, Northwestern University. MM, Carnegie Mellon University. BM, Northwestern University

Dr. Gardner is the Assistant Professor of Horn at Western Illinois University. She has more than a decade of private teaching experience working with students of all ages and abilities.

more info at www.gardnerhorn.com or www.wiu.edu/cofac/horn/

Dr. Gardner is an is an active soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player throughout the state of Illinois and the United States. Dr. Gardner has performed extensively around the world including tours in Europe, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. She has been a guest section member with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Steamboat Springs Festival Orchestra horn sections and was acting 2nd and 4th horn of the Louisiana Philharmonic orchestra for the 2012 and 2013 seasons respectively.


Dr. Gardner is a passionate chamber musician and will join the faculty ensembles at WIU (the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and the Lamoine Brass Quintet). From 2010-2015 she was a member of the Arabesque Winds. With that ensemble, she performed concerts and master classes at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, the Sanibel Music Festival, the Wooster Chamber Music Festival and many others.

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