Episode 39: Shanyse Strickland

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