Sheona White joined EIBBSS in 2023 as Visiting Horn Tutor at our first residence at Bromsgrove School.

In 2024 the EIBBSS team are excited to announce that Sheona will become the full-time Tenor Horn Tutor. Sheona is widely recognised as one of the greatest horn players of her generation.

Sheona has performed with many of the world’s premier brass bands including Brighouse & Rastrick, Black Dyke and the Yorkshire Building Society Brass Band with whom she was Principal Horn for many years. During the ‘YBS era’, Sheona shared in the band’s huge success worldwide. This included winning the All England Masters 3 times, the British Open 4 times and representing England in the European ‘EBBA’ festival on 10 occasions, winning the European Championships an unprecedented 8 times in these 10 appearances. She also performed in the Sydney Opera House as part of the YBS ‘Kings of Europe’ Tour.

Her recording accomplishments include​ her latest Solo CD ‘Timeless’ and first solo CD ‘Voice of the Tenor Horn’ both highly acclaimed and receiving rave reviews. Other innovative recording projects include a solo feature on the BBC’s Children In Need single ‘Perfect Day’ and performing on the Mercury Prize winning album ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ by the distinguished Manchester band ‘Elbow’.

Sheona is proud to be at the forefront of developing new repertoire for the Tenor Horn, including music by Philip Sparke, Kenneth Downie, Peter Graham and Derek Bourgeois.

Sheona previously held the position of tutor of Tenor Horn at The University of Salford and the Royal Northern College of Music until recently where she made the choice to concentrate on her passion of classroom teaching at Bolton School Girls’ Division. She currently holds the post of Deputy Director of Music.

​As well as performing and teaching Sheona is Chair of the Association of Brass Band Adjudicators (AoBBA) and has adjudicated at some of the most prestigious competitions around the world.

Sheona is a Besson Artist, playing the Besson Sovereign Tenor Horn, a Denis Wick Artist, playing a Denis Wick 3 mouthpiece and an endorsee for the Shhhmute practice mute range.

From 2024 Sheona will tutor the tenor horns and Stephanie Binns tutor the Flugel Horns.

The EIBBSS Team would like to welcome Sheona to the full-time tutor team.