Richard Deane has been third horn of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1987. Mr. Deane is a native of Richmond, Kentucky, where he began his horn studies with Stanley Lawson. Mr. Deane received the Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Myron Bloom, and the Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Michael Hatfield. Other teachers have included Jerry Peel at the University of Miami and David Wakefield at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Deane was a first prize winner in the American Horn Competition in 1987. He has played principal horn with the Colorado Philharmonic and the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Soloisti New York, and the Lexington, KY Philharmonic.

In Atlanta, Mr. Deane has performed with the Atlanta Chamber Players, and is a member of the Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, touring Norway with that group as part of the Olympic cultural exchange between Lillehammer and Atlanta. In May of 1999, he was a featured artist at the International Horn Society Convention held at the University of Georgia in Athens. In addition to teaching master classes at such schools as the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Georgia State University, Cleveland State University (Ohio) and Eastern Kentucky University, Mr. Deane is also visiting professor of horn at the University of Georgia. Mr. Deane also serves as principal horn of the Brevard Music Festival in Brevard, North Carolina each summer. His article The Third Horn Brahms Experience was published in the Spring 2007 edition of The Horn Call (the journal of the International Horn Society) and his first method book, The efficient approach: Accelerated development for the French Horn is slated for publication this year.