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Debra Sherrill-Ward, horn
Debra Sherrill-Ward, is Principal Horn with Chamber Music Charleston and the North Charleston Pops Orchestra, Third Horn of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Savannah Philharmonic and the Coastal Symphony of Georgia. Debra was honored to be the featured Guest Artist for the 2018 Western Illinois University Horn Festival. She is the director of the Charleston Horn Camp, a camp she started in 2010 for middle school through college age horn students. Debra promotes contemporary composers and has commissioned new works, including: "Moonflower" for solo horn by Kate Caliendo, "Sacred Secrets" for horn and piano by James Naigus, "Pastime" for horn and piano by Carrado Maria Saglietti, "Hyperion in the Red Forest" for Soprano and Horn and "Angels Nine" for 3 Horns and Piano" by Karen Walwyn.
Debra has been a featured soloist with the North Charleston Pops Orchestra, the North Charleston Brass Band and soloed with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra horn section, performing the Schumann Konzertstück for 4 horns.
During the summers, she has played for the St. Augustine Music Festival, Loon Lake Live, Musica en Segura Festival, the Endless Mountains Music Festival, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Debra was a member of the Barcelona Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony, and the Charleston Symphony. She studied under Froydis Werke in Oslo, Norway, Jerome Ashby at the Juilliard School, Erik Ralske at Manhattan School of Music and Roger Collins at Western Illinois University. Her other notable teachers include John Cerminaro and Randall Faust.