Horn Studio
Aliceyn Covington
STUDENT PROFILE
Aliceyn Covington is an undergraduate horn student at the Eastman School of Music majoring in French Horn Performance and Instrumental Music Education. She actively participates in a variety of ensembles at the school including the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Philharmonia, Empire Film and Media Ensemble, and the Bells N’ Roses horn quartet. Her horn quartet won the Eastman Brass Concerto Competition in the Spring of 2024 and performed Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra by Robert Schumann with the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. The summer of 2023 she attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as one of two french horn fellows. During her six-week residency, she performed weekly in a wind quintet and in various chamber orchestra opportunities working alongside many professors from the Yale School of Music.
She has had the privilege to play in masterclasses both in chamber music and solo settings for Froydis Ree Wekre, William Purvis, Stefan de Leval Jezierski, and Gail Williams. Outside of school she is a substitute musician with multiple ensembles such as the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Syracuse Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. In November of 2024, she had the opportunity to perform as the principal horn of the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour in the Buffalo, NY concert. Through her various performance opportunities, she enjoys reaching out to the community and sharing her love of music.