Andrew Sehman

Horn player Andrew Sehmann is a musician and college professor based in Athens, GA.

Currently, he teaches Horn, aural skills, music tech and music appreciation at Young Harris College and Georgia College and State University. Current and former students have place first chair in the Georgia Allstate Symphonic Band, been accepted to and attended GHP, and attended NYO-USA at Carnegie Hall. Former college students have gone on to masters programs and been awarded assistantships.

Andrew plays with multiple orchestras in the Southeast. He is third horn in the Augusta Symphony, and second horn with the South Carolina Philharmonic. He has played under conductors such as Keith Lockhart, Jeff Tyzik, Dirk Meyer, Joann Faletta, Garrett Keast, Courtney Lewis, John Morris Russell, and Morihiko Nakahara.

In addition to orchestral and chamber playing, Andrew is an accomplished soloist. He began his soloing career at age 16 when he won the Borchardt Concerto Competition in Central Kentucky. In 2016, Andrew won the International Horn Society's Tuckwell and Hawkins Awards. Also, during the convention, he placed second at the yearly Premier Soloist Competition. In 2017, Andrew won the scholarship competition of the Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta, an all instrument competition. The winner studies in Salzburg at the Mozarteum. In 2022 he was a Semi-finalist for the International Horn Competition of the Americas. He has also been featured on two albums: Floral Portrait’s Eponymous Debut, and The Augusta Symphony’s Orchestral Works of Miguel del Aguila.

His previous teachers have included: Marie-Luise Neunecker, Johannes Hinterholzer, Jean Martin-Williams, Mick Sehmann, Richard Deane, James Naigus, and Hazel Dean Davis. He lives with his wife Ashley, a private piano teacher in Athens with their rescue dog, Stella.