The Horn Call Podcast

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

We kick off Season 4 and Episode 38 of the Horn Call Podcast with Leelanee Sterrett, a member of the New York Philharmonic! 

Episode Highlights

• Musical influences, early experiences at Interlochen Arts Academy
• Shout-out to Julie Schleif
• Shout-out to Douglas Hill
• Graduate study at Yale, studying with William Purvis
• Preparing for competitions and auditions
• Advice for music students today
• Women Composers – repertoire in general
• Practice/maintenance routine
• Daily/Weekly schedule in the NY Phil
• Involvement with the IHS

My guest for Episode 37 is Dr. Margaret McGillivray!

Dr. McGillivray is on the faculty of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in the Washington, DC, an active freelance musician, and the organizer/initiator of the new solo collection LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers, available from Cimarron Music Press.

My guest in Episode 36 is the amazing Jeff Scott, Associate Professor of Horn at Oberlin Conservatory, member of the IHS Advisory Council, and a Featured Artist at IHS55!

Episode Highlights

• Growing up in Queens, NY
• Shout out to horn teacher Carolyn Clark
• Importance of learning to play in multiple styles
• Musical inspirations, horn and otherwise
• Shout out to Valerie Coleman
• Composition process
• Teaching philosophy
• Deciding to leave Broadway work for full time chamber music
• Hearing the overture to Oberon for the first time, played by Jerome Ashby.
• How he got started composing, advice for new composers
• Collaborating with Margaret McGillivray on LIFT: Solos for Horn by Black Composers
• Current performing, recording, composition projects
• Upcoming IHS55 where he is a Featured Artist

Join me in Episode 35 for a conversation with Nick Fife!

Episode Highlights

• Nick’s article(s) in the May 2023 Horn Call and injury recovery. Craig Vander Kolk, M.D. https://mdmercy.com/find-a-doctor/craig-vander-kolk-md
• Using the bass trombone to rebuild his horn playing.
• Balance is important!
• “The first step to being good at something is being bad at it.”
• How he got into composing. List of compositions on WaveFront Music: https://www.wavefrontmusic.com/nicholas-fife.html
• Musical inspirations
• Shoutout to J.D. Shaw!
• Hosting the NC Horn Day
• Mute Making: https://nicholasfife.wixsite.com/nicholasfife/the-mute-peddler
• IVASI Network online: https://www.ivasi.net/

Join us in Episode 34 of The Horn Call Podcast for a conversation with Pascal Deuber, Principal Horn in the Bavarian State Orchestra at the Bavarian State Opera, and First Prize winner in the 2021 ARD Competition.

Episode Highlights

• Current performing positions, rehearsal schedules
• Musical education/training
• Preparing for the ARD competition, advice for other horn players who want to compete
• Favorite pieces to play
• Interests outside of horn playing
• Listen to Pascal perform Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 2 in the 2021 ARD Competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYQMBU9KY9w
• Munich Opera Horns: https://www.staatsoper.de/en/septemberfest-2022-bios/munich-opera-horns

In Episode 33 we have more archival audio from the First Annual French Horn Workshop held at Florida State University in 1969. This is a panel discussion with Philip Farkas, Barry Tuckwell, James Chambers, Anton Horner, Wendell Hoss, and Max Pottag. The panel (which appears to be moderated by James Chambers) took written questions, and questions from the floor.

Episode Highlights

• Schools of playing 
• Solo playing developments
• Transposition
• Intonation
• Difficult openings
• Max Pottag and Anton Horner
• Playing in bands

In the first of this multi-part series featuring audio from past IHS symposia, John Barrows (1913-1974) gave what sounds like a masterclass at The First Annual French Horn Workshop, held at Florida State University in 1969. At some point during the session he took questions from the floor. 

Episode Highlights

• mouthpieces, Conn 8Ds, and Verne Reynolds
• mouthpieces, his own playing, and Geyer horns
• bore and playing styles
• Bruno Jaenicke (1887-1946) and famous recordings of the time
• playing style, hand stopping 

Join me in Episode 31 for a conversation with IHS Advisory Council Member and Secretary Allison DeMeulle!

Episode Highlights

• Working for an arts non-profit in marketing
• Double-majoring in music performance and a self-designed major in publishing and editing at Chapman University
• Being an orchestra manager while in college
• Being on the IHS Advisory Council
• How graphic design training can help you be a better musician
• Why the marketing side of the arts is very important
• Starting a business: http://themusicalnotes.com/
• Getting excited about IHS55

Join me for a conversation with the host of IHS55, Louis-Philippe Marsolais!

Episode Highlights

• Planning for IHS55, July 24-29
• Involvement with the IHS
• Guest artists so far
• Montreal in the summer, weather, etc.
• University of Montreal
• Reasons to attend IHS55
• Unique features of Montreal, getting there, lodging, travel in the city, etc.
• Check out Louis-Philippe’s article in the February 2023 issue of The Horn Call