FRENCH HORN
BEVERLY OSTEIN has been playing the French Horn since 7th grade. After a 25 year hiatus following college, she began playing again. She was in the Naples Community Orchestra from 1998 to 2002, the Lee County Community Band from 2002 to 2005 and the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to the present. She has studied under Mark Castellanos and Cheryle Naberhaus. She is a graduate of Michigan State University, holds Masters degrees from University of Arizona and University of Colorado, and is an RN and Nurse Practitioner.
TOM SCHILLER (Principal Horn) started playing French horn at age nine in Tacoma, Washington. He continued to play through high school, Whitworth College (Spokane) and Vanderbilt Medical School (Nashville). Dr Schiller is a practicing pediatrician in the Fort Myers area for the past twenty years, now with the Lee Physician Group. He lives with his wife in Fort Myers, and has a teenage daughter (18) and son (16).
BETHANY SMITH is originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area and is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio with horn as her major instrument and a degree in music education. In the past, Bethany has taught band out in Sterling, Colorado. Since her move to Florida in 2005, she has been a traveling music teacher in several private Christian schools in the general Fort Myers, Florida area teaching band and keyboarding classes. Bethany has been enjoying her first season as a part of the Gulf Coast Symphony’s horn section.