Barbara Jöstlein Currie has been a Horn player with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for the past 23 years, after having won the position at the age of 22.  Prior to that she was a student of Julie Landsman and received a full scholarship to attend the Juilliard School. She spent one year playing Associate Principal Horn with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Israel after being runner-up in the Third Horn audition for the San Diego Symphony at the age of 19.
Barbara is currently a full time Horn faculty member of the Bard Conservatory, a position she has held  for the past 10 years and is also a Horn Teacher with the Mannes Prep Pre-College High School program. Prior to this she taught at the Manhattan School of mUsic PreCillege program for 6 years. Barbara has had enjoyed teaching beginner students and has had great success with those students as well. She teaches via zoom all around the world. Aside from opera, she is a frequent artist in commercial recordings in both NYC and LA and has spent a year as Second Horn of the San Diego Symphony and many summers with the LA Philharmonic playing in the Hollywood Bowl. Barbara and her husband have three children who love to go to the beach and explore national parks together!