Our guest for Episode 39 is the multi-talented Shanyse Strickland!
Episode Highlights
- Switching to the horn from flute
- Auditioning for college on flute, horn, and euphonium!
- Studying with Bill Slocum and Stacie Mickens at Youngstown State University.
- Be a good musician first, and a good instrumentalist second
- Early inspirations on the horn
- Respect for Julius Watkins
- “I just like challenging myself.”
- Changing in undergrad from being a flute performance major to horn!
- Shoutout to Stacie Mickens!
- How a mouthpiece change was lifechanging.
- Freelancing, performing on Broadway in New York
- “Think outside of the box.”
- “The industry wants somebody different.”
- Getting started as a composer, first commission for Lantana Brass Trio’s album, Crossing Barriers: https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Barriers-Bernofsky-Rodriguez-Strickland/dp/B0BNGHXRT9
- Shoutout to Margaret McGillivray
- Into the Spider-verse Tour with the Broadway Sinfonietta
