Sheona White is the current Solo Horn of Black Dyke Band

Black Dyke Band

The Black Dyke Band, formerly the Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known brass bands in the world. The band has won many prizes and competitions over the years...

, was the solo tenor horn player of the YBS and Foden's Richardson bands, as well as horn tutor at the University of Salford

University of Salford

The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...

, where she also gained her BA Hons degree, with Distinction in Performance.

Her previous achievements include playing Principal Horn of the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland, winning the BBC

BBC

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 Young Brass Soloist of the Year in 1996, and reaching the final of the 1998 Cosmopolitan Magazine Women of Achievement Awards.

Outside the band world, White is most well known for her contribution to the BBC's 1997 charity single, "Perfect Day".

White has recorded an album of solos for her chosen instrument, titled The Voice of The Tenor Horn.

She now works at Lowton High School as a music teacher.

External links

• article on White at the 4barsrest.com website