Francis Orval
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Francis Orval is a Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 classical horn player.

Career

Orval has recorded albums with artists such as Arthur Grumiaux
Arthur Grumiaux
Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist who was also proficient in piano.-Youth:Grumiaux was born in Villers-Perwin, Belgium to a working-class family, and it was his grandfather who urged him to begin music studies at the age of only 4...

, Gyorgy Sebok
Gyorgy Sebok
György Sebők was an internationally renowned pianist and Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington USA....

, and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. He has been featured on the cover of Horn Society magazine. He studied music at the Liege Conservatory, where he has also taught for many years. By the age of 16, he was playing with the National Orchestra of Belgium
National Orchestra of Belgium
The Nationaal Orkest van België or Orchestre National de Belgique is the oldest of two major orchestras now in Belgium, along with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège....

 (Orchestre National de Belgique).

In the 1970s he was a horn soloist with the Radio Luxemburg Orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique de Radio Luxembourg). He has taught in the United States at the University of Delaware
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...

 and at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
The University of the Arts is one of the United States' oldest universities dedicated to the arts. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia...

. For many years he taught at the Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen
Trossingen
Trossingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest. Stuttgart is about an hour away, Lake Constance about half an hour, and the source of the river Danube can be reached in about twenty minutes by car.Trossingen...

, Germany.
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