Featured Holton Artists

Distinctive because of her versatility, Lisa Ormston Bontrager has been recognized as one of the country's leading tenor horn players. She currently tours and records with both the Brass Band of Battle Creek and the New Columbian Brass Band. Performing on historic instruments, she has appeared in lectures and on video with Louis Stout's, "The Horn, from the Forest to the Concert Hall." She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Chamber and Ballet Orchestras, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestras, the Harrisburg Symphony, and the Penn's Woods Festival Orchestra. Presently, she serves as principal horn of the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra.

As soloist/clinician for Holton horns, Bontrager has been featured at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, New York Brass Conferences, the New England Brass Conference, and a number of international conferences of the International Horn Society. For six years she served as an elected member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society.

Michelle Stebleton currently serves as Associate Professor of Horn at Florida State University at Tallahasse, Florida. She performs as principal horns with the Florida State Brass Quintet, the FSU Chamber Orchestra and the Tallahassee Symphony. Prior to joining the FSU facility in 1990, Ms. Stebelton performed as principal hornist with the Midland/Odessa Symphony (TX) and the Lone Star Brass Quintet.

Ms. Stebleton is also an active performer in Tallahassee, where her students can benefit from hearing live performances. She performs regularly as a soloist with the FSU Concert Bands, Chamber Winds, Chamber Orchestra, and the University Symphony Orchestra.