Alicia Mastromonaco is a Contributing Writer, Inside Music Speaker, and frequent guest horn player for the San Francisco Symphony. She is also a member of the California Symphony, Monterey Symphony, and Marin Symphony, and is a horn lecturer at Sonoma State University. She earned a PhD in musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara; a master’s degree in horn from the University of California, Los Angeles; and bachelor’s degrees in horn performance and musicology from Boston University. Her scholarly interests include studying 20th- and 21st-century orchestral communities through the lenses of labor politics, shifting systems of patronage and economic structures, and sociocultural mores.