Dr. Alan F. Mattingly is Professor of Horn at the University of Nebraska, where he teaches the horn studio, conducts the Husker Horn Choir, and has performed worldwide with both the Moran Woodwind Quintet and the Faculty Brass Quintet.  He has traveled the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Wales, Russia, Australia, and the Czech Republic as a performer and clinician, with major performances at conventions of the International Horn Society, International Trumpet Guild, International Brass Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall.  Ever a champion of new music, he has commissioned and premiered many new brass and woodwind quintets, including Copernicus by Czech composer Juraj Filas, OK Quintet by Scott McAllister, What We Do is Secret by Lansing McKloskey, All the Difference by John Steinmetz, and Nebrasska by world-renowned Hollywood composer Bruce Broughton.  He has also premiered new works exclusively for horn at the annual International Horn Symposium, including Horn Sonata by Jeff Richmond, Angel Falls (Horn Quintet) by Lewis Songer, Souls Made of Music (Horn Quartet and Voice) by Michael Kallstrom, A Place of Color and Silence (Two Horns and Piano) by Daniel Baldwin,Sic Transit (Horn Quartet) by Ethan Trimble, Golden Calls (Horn Octet) by Randall Faust, And the Mountains Have a Song (Horn Octet) by James McAllister, Legend of Fallen Kings (Horn Octet) by Daniel Baldwin, and Still Waters (Horn Octet) by Drew Phillips.  As an orchestral musician, he has been the principal hornist of the Spartanburg Philharmonic, principal hornist of the Hendersonville Symphony, and associate principal/third horn of the Asheville Symphony.  He has also performed in the horn sections with orchestras in Albany, GA, Macon, GA, Greenville, SC, Tallahassee, FL, Paducah, KY, Omaha, NE, and Lincoln, NE.

Mattingly has held several administrative positions throughout his career.  At UNL he has served as the Assistant Director and the Interim Director of the School of Music.  Throughout his time in these administrative roles, Dr. Mattingly provided guidance and leadership in the planning, design, and implementation of both a $75 million new music facility and a $15 million performance hall renovation, co-chaired a committee guiding music faculty and staff through a complete revision of the School of Music strategic plan that included a specific commitment to the health and wellness of students and to overall diversity, equity, and inclusion, and worked with leaders throughout the NU System to provide the musical contribution for the Nebraska Campaign Kickoff, a high-profile event encouraging 150,000 benefactors to donate $3 billion in support of all University of Nebraska programs statewide.  Mattingly has also led the School of Music’s curriculum committee in numerous programmatic developments, including the creation a Bachelor of Arts degree with an option in Composition, implementing significant changes to the Music Technology Minor, restructuring the Music Minor and Bachelor of Arts in Dance curricula, overhauling the delivery and credit hours of the Master of Music Education degree, modifying the requirements for acceptance into the Music Teacher Education Program, restructuring the prerequisites for applied lessons, and implementing multiple updates and revisions to the undergraduate student handbook.  He was also part of the completion of a reaccreditation application to the National Association of Schools of Music, chaired a committee to write and implement new School of Music Bylaws, restructured the faculty election process, rewrote all undergraduate acceptance and scholarship letters to incoming students, and created a new system for managing scholarship compliance. 

Prior to his appointment at Nebraska, Mattingly was the horn professor at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, where he taught the applied horn studio, music theory and aural skills, orchestration, music appreciation, conducted the horn choir, performed with the Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, and served as the graduate coordinator of music.  As the graduate coordinator, Mattingly oversaw all communication and marketing components of recruiting to the graduate music program, was the primary advisor for all graduate music students, reflected all changes in the graduate handbook, and completed official graduation checks for all graduate music students.  He also served on the Chancellor’s Task Force, which spent an entire year restructuring and redesignating all units and colleges across campus into more streamlined and organized groupings.  This process resulted in the alignment of units with similar interests and missions into a single college, which created synergies and collaboration among faculty, conserved resources, and maximized program visibility for marketing and fundraising.  It was during this restructuring process that initiated steps to the renaming of the Department of Music to a School of Music.

Dr. Mattingly currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the International Horn Competition of America (IHCA), is founder and president of the International Horn Quartet Competition (IHQC), and for many years was the Area Representative Coordinator for the International Horn Society (IHS).  His students consistently perform well at horn competitions and auditions, and many have gone on to win orchestral posts and teaching positions at the public school and university levels.  Other students have been accepted into top graduate music programs nationally, work in arts management, and have developed thriving private horn studios.