Since moving to Texas in 2010, Dr. Carrie D. Strickland has maintained a large studio throughout the New Braunfels and San Antonio area and is currently the hornist with Olmos Basin Brass and an instructor at Bulverde Academy of Music (BAM) where she teaches horn and advanced music theory. Active in solo and chamber music competitions, she has been a finalist in the Farkas Competition with the International Horn Society and Semi-Finalist at the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Also, her students have won competitions at several local and regional horn workshops as well as been selected for study at summer music festivals including Sewanee Music Festival and Brevard Summer Music Institute.

 

She has held principal positions with Sinfonia Gulf Coast, The Philharmonic Society of Northwest Florida, Meridian Symphony, and Natchez Opera Festival, and performed with orchestras in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania as well as Oslo, Norway. As a freelance hornist and orchestral musician, she has performed with such artists as Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Jamie Laredo, Bernadette Peters, Dudley Moore, Ricky Skaggs, Bela Fleck, Rod Stewart, and Ray Charles. She has judged competitions and performed at regional and international horn workshops as well as performed as a soloist and recitalist throughout the U.S. and Europe.

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As a Fulbright Scholar in 2003-2004, Dr. Strickland completed her dissertation through which she worked with hornist Frøydis Ree Wekre and composer Wolfgang Plagge. Before moving to Texas, Dr. Strickland was Instructor of High Brass at Jones County Junior College and has previously held positions at Toccoa Falls College, Augusta State University, and was a music appreciation instructor at the University of Georgia.

 

Dr. Strickland holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi (B.M.), West Virginia University (M.M.), and the University of Georgia (D.M.A.). Her teachers have included Dennis Behm, Frøydis Ree Wekre, Dr. Virginia Thompson, Dr. Jean Martin-Williams and Arnold Jacobs.