Cameron
(Cameron Kopf)

Bio:
After ten years on the road playing horn with the national (USA) touring company of "The Phantom of the Opera", I have recently retired from that organization and moved from Bisbee, Arizona to the Woods of Northern California.

In this peaceful, secluded piece of heaven, I am following my dreams of composing and recording my own music, as well as further developing my skills on all the instruments I play: horn, harp, piano and the recorder family.

I became a professional horn player immediately upon my graduation from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati in 1976, when I won my first orchestral position with the Nashville Symphony. It was a very stimulating environment, playing recordings, TV shows and small ensembles in addition to my regular orchestra duties.

After three years, I went down to Mexico to play with La Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México. This was an excellent orchestra with musicians from all over Latin America, Europe, Russia and the United States. We did many recordings, and tours throughout Mexico and the States.

After two devaluations of the peso in 1982 (four years later) I left the orchestra and moved back to the States without a job; I lived with my parents in my childhood home in Sacramento and worked in a pizza parlor. I subbed with the Sacramento Symphony, then ended up winning a national audition and remained there for nearly fifteen years, until the orchestra's unfortunate demise in 1996.

I jumped at the chance to join the Phantom touring company in 1997. The experience of playing the same music over and over again (over 3,000 shows!) presented different challenges than anything I had ever done musically before.

It was a great ten years but it's time to move on to the next phase.

So now I return to Northern California once again. Along with my many musical projects with horn, harp, piano and recorders, I will freelance on horn in various area orchestras, including the new "incarnation" in Sacramento, now called the Sacramento Philharmonic. It will be nice to play there on a part-time basis.

In my new life, I look forward to having more time to create music and share it with you all here!