Rebecca McGown, horn, is an orchestral musician and educator based in Northeast Ohio.  She is the principal horn of the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra, the third horn in the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, and the fourth horn in the Mansfield (OH) Symphony Orchestra. She is a frequent guest with The Cleveland Pops, City Music Cleveland, The Cleveland Opera Theater, and the Erie Philharmonic. She is on the faculty of the community music school at the University of Akron. Ms. McGown has performed in some of the great symphonic halls of the world during tours of Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Scotland, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Spain, and Portugal. An avid chamber musician, Ms. McGown performs with the Olympic Brass Quintet and the Firelands Brass Quintet. In 2019, she was selected to perform in a chamber music series with members of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Ms. McGown holds a Master of Arts in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Music in Horn Performance from Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor of Horn Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has studied with Richard Solis, William Purvis, Alan DeMattia, Kent Larmee, Denise Tryon, Stefan deLeval Jezierski, Tod Bowermaster, and Christian Morabito.