Musicians > Alex Mastrando Alex Mastrando, horn, is an active freelance musician in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area. He studied music at Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College), in Glassboro, New Jersey. He has studied with Mason Jones, former principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra; David Wetherill, current co-principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Phil Myers, principal horn of the New York Philharmonic; Anthony Cecere, of Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway; Richard Swartz, of the Opera Company of Philadelphia; Dr. Robert B. Taylor, retired Professor of Horn at Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College); LA studio and Broadway hornist Glen Estrin; and; Kathryn Mehrtens, Professor of Horn at The College of New Jersey. He has held the position of principal horn in his university orchestra, wind ensemble, and opera orchestra. He was featured as a soloist in the 1998 Rowan University Orchestra soloist competition, where he performed Mozart’s Concerto #3 in Eb, K. 447. He has also performed with such groups as: The Philadelphia Sinfonia, The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, The Garden State Philharmonic, The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, The Plainfield Symphony, and The Central Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In 1989, he had the honor of meeting musical legend Leonard Bernstein in the Philadelphia Academy of Music's Green Room. He toured the US with the 1996 National Equity Tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. Currently, he is the horn player for The Premier Theater Company of Lincroft, New Jersey as well as Phoenix Productions at the historic Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, and is Third Horn with the Greenwich Village Orchestra.