Kaitlin Hosey

Bio

An active educator and performer, Kaitlin Hosey is native to Meridian, MS and has been teaching horn since 2015.  She joined the Carey family in 2022 as an adjunct horn professor.  Her responsibilities include teaching weekly applied horn lessons to music majors and minors, leading studio class/horn choir, and playing in the Winters (faculty) Brass Quintet. 

Previously, Prof. Hosey worked as an assistant band director at Lakeshore Public Schools (2020-2022) in Stevensville, Michigan where she taught grades 5th-12th. While in Michigan she played fourth horn with the Holland Symphony Orchestra (2018-2022) and subbed for regional orchestras: La Porte Symphony, Battle Creek Symphony, Elkhart Symphony, and Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. She also performed in various chamber music recitals throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin.  In addition, Kaitlin maintained a private horn studio of beginning to advanced middle and high school students.  Collectively, students and alumni have participated in regional youth orchestras, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Blue Lake International, Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Interlochen Center for the Arts Boarding School, Western Michigan University: Seminar, YoungArts National Foundation, Honors Performance Series: Carnegie Hall, MS Lions All State Band, and the National Youth Orchestra-USA.

In 2013, after studying horn with Dr. Patrick Richards at Jones College, Mrs. Hosey graduated from The University of Southern Mississippi where she studied with Dr. Heidi Lucas and Dr. Jacquelyn Adams while earning a Bachelor's in Music Education.  In 2016, Kaitlin accepted a graduate assistantship from Western Michigan University where she earned her Master’s in Horn Performance studying with Dr. Lin Foulk Baird.  While at Western, she was named winner of the IHS Mid-North Horn Workshop: Solo Horn Competition (2016) held at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Furthermore, Kaitlin attended the Fresh Inc Festival (2018) hosted by Fifth House Ensemble where she performed a piece for solo horn in the Milwaukee Art Museum and participated in chamber music recitals in Racine/Kenosha, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. 

Mrs. Hosey will continue to bring the best education and opportunities to all current and future students as it is her personal goal to help set a solid foundation in the next generation of music educators and musicians.