Christopher Caudill

On Stage

Horn player Christopher Caudill is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned a B.A. in European History before studying horn with Dale Clevenger, former Solo Horn of the Chicago Symphony. He toured the United States and Russia with the American-Russian Youth Orchestra, and spent two summers at the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts. He was a member of Michael Tilson Thomas’s training orchestra, the New World Symphony, in Miami Beach, Florida, where he met his future wife, Rachel Niketopoulos. She made a convincing case for the beauty and challenge of playing the natural horn, and they have been duet partners ever since. 

Caudill has played Principal Horn with the Honolulu Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony; spent the 2013-14 season with the National Symphony in Washington, D.C.; and was a member of the North Carolina Symphony for 19 years. Chris and Rachel live in Raleigh, NC, and have performed with Atlanta Baroque, Apollo’s Fire, Raleigh Camerata, Indianapolis Baroque, Bach Akademie Charlotte, NC Baroque, and the Duke University Chapel Bach Cantata series, and offered recitals at Duke and UNC Chapel Hill. He and Rachel perform on copies of Leichnambschneider, Haas, and Kerner 18th-century horns by Richard Seraphinoff of Indiana University.