Josh Olson, Horn

Another great week with the Santa Barbara Symphony!Should I switch to professional wine glass player? 🤔

Romantic Hollywood with the Santa Barbara Symphony. So grateful to spend Valentine’s weekend in a beautiful town, making music with amazing people.

Finished out January with playing the music of Genshin Impact along with a few new compositions. It’s always great vibes with this section.

Back in August I had the pleasure of spending three days at Warner Brothers Studios and the Eastwood Scoring Stage participating in the .fci Studio Intensive workshop. We recorded a ton of music, including this amazing arrangement of Moon River that I got to play principal on. I hope everyone takes a few minutes to go and listen wherever you get your music!

I’m (barely) in an Apple commercial! A couple months ago I got to spend the day shooting this commercial and it finally came out. We did like 15 takes of this last scene and of course they use the one where I almost missed the ending choreo 😂 Many thanks to for the opportunity!

A few weeks ago I wrapped up my first year on staff at Mission Viejo High School with a 1st place finish in WBA 2A Class Championships (and 4th in Grand Championships) along with High Music, Percussion, Visual, and Effect. Super proud of these kids for all the hard work they put in this season. Can’t wait to see what they do next year!

We’re so excited to play at Santa Ana College next week! 🎶
Come hang out with the San Gabriel Valley Symphony Horn Quartet for a fun evening of music, good vibes, and lots of horn playing 📯

Featuring Jeff Gumpertz, Laura Weiss, Josh Olson, and Patrick Williams

🗓 Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025: 5:30PM - 6:20PM
📍 Fine Arts Building, Room C-104
🎟 Free admission!

Hope to see you there!

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First few concerts of PRISMA are in the books! Had the absolute pleasure of playing 2nd horn to Oto Carrillo from the Chicago Symphony on a beautiful Berlioz song cycle Thursday. Then wrapped up the week with some heavy-hitting Mahler: Kindertotenlieder intertwined with his Sixth Symphony.

Looking forward to spending a couple weeks in Powell River, British Columbia for the PRISMA Festival & Academy this summer!

A cool horn moment from the Jungle Cruise movie that I transcribed recently