Sheona White Explained

Sheona Wade is the current Solo Horn of Brighouse and Rastrick Band, was the solo tenor horn player of the YBS and Black Dyke Band^[1] ^[2] and Foden's Richardson bands, as well as horn tutor at the University of Salford, where she also gained her BA Hons degree, with Distinction in Performance.

White's previous achievements include playing Principal Horn of the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland, winning the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician 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 previously worked as a music teacher at Lowton High School.^[3] She now works at Bolton School Girls Division as a music teacher.

External links

article on White at the 4barsrest.com website

Notes and References

Book: Newsome, Roy . The modern brass band: from the 1930s to the new millennium . 2006-02-28 . Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. . 978-0-7546-0717-5 . 288– . 11 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140112012726/https://books.google.com/books?id=O6-iHNQwga8C&pg=PA288#v=onepage&q&f=false . 12 January 2014 . live.
News: 12 March 2004 . YBS double but locals share Regionals joy! . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020139/http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/ybs-double-locals-share-regionals-5090835 . 7 November 2017 . 11 July 2011 . Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
Web site: Lowton Church of England High School | . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240905133801/https://www.lowtonhs.wigan.sch.uk/ . 5 September 2024 . 7 July 2017 . Lowton Church of England High School . lowtonhs.wigan.sch.uk.