Fokke van Heel is the principal horn of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. He has played principal horn with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under conductors Mariss Jansons, Kurt Masur and George Benjamin. He has also performed with other distinguished conductors including Edo de Waart, Valery Gergiev, Marc Albrecht, Hartmut Haenchen, Oliver Knussen, Yakov Kreizberg, Ivor Bolton and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

As a soloist, Fokke van Heel performed the two Richard Strauss concertos, Benjamin Britten's 'Serenade' and Oliver Knussen's horn concerto in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. 

Van Heel is a horn professor at the music universities of Amsterdam and Zwolle. He is an advocate of contemporary music and frequently performs with different chamber music groups. He began playing the French Horn in the local brass band of a little town in the Netherlands. He studied in The Hague with Prof. Oldrich M�lek (Czechia) and in Essen with Prof. Hermann Baumann (Germany). He also studied with Froydis Ree-Wekre, Peter Damm and Vitaly Boujanovsky in international master classes.

Horn students at PRISMA 2014 will be working with this world class PRISMA guest artist in masterclasses, sectional rehearsals and even private lessons for the two weeks of PRISMA.

Eric Hominick studied piano at the Toronto Conservatory and piano and voice at Dalhousie University. In 1983 he moved to Vancouver to join the music faculty at Vancouver Community College (KEC) and commence an eleven-year professional singing career with the Vancouver Chamber Choir. At present, he is also accompanist for the British Columbia Girls Choir.

Mr. Hominick is an experienced recital, workshop, rehearsal and audition pianist. He has worked with many of Vancouver's finest choral ensembles, singers, instrumentalists, voice studios and music institutions. He runs a Piano and Voice Studio in Vancouver, and freelances as an accompanist, arranger, adjudicator, baritone soloist and vocal coach. As a singer he is a veteran of weddings, background vocal sessions and professional singing engagements.

Eric has been a Broadway rehearsal and show pianist, cruise ship entertainer, cocktail pianist, occasional lecturer on the topic "Crossing Over From Classical to Broadway", and has played and sung in a variety of traditional and contemporary gospel groups. 

Students at PRISMA 2014 will get the chance to work with this dynamic accompanist throughout PRISMA.