Selena Boyda

A native of south Mississippi, Selena Boyda has received her Bachelors and Master’s Degrees in Music Performance at the University of Southern Mississippi. Selena received her DMA in horn performance with a minor in theory from Louisiana State University.

As a performer, Selena regularly plays with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestral credits include Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Mostly Modern Orchestra. In addition, Selena is an artist for the Louisiana Art Music Collective (LAMC) as well as Louisiana Scoring. Selena also has experience in commercial music, having performed standard music and opera productions such as Rigoletto and Carousel to more modern works such as Emmett Till (Charles Lloyd Jr.) and Too Many Sopranos (Edwin Penhorwood).

She enjoys expanding the musical canon with contemporary works by underrepresented composers with her various chamber groups: the Highland Five, the Gold Brass Quintet, and the horn quartet Corno2Geaux. Selena regularly commissions for new works such as Evan Zegiel’s Shadows of the Restless Soul, for horn and heavy metal band.

As an educator, Selena participates in outreach programs with her chamber groups, performing and educating across the country including New York, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. Selena regularly teaches in rural parts of south Mississippi and Louisiana. Beyond horn, Boyda specializes in modern theory analytical techniques such as set theory and extreme metal theory. Selena’s dissertation is SOUNDSCAPE – A Guided Approach to Post-Tonal Horn Repertoire.

Her teachers are Seth Orgel and Jacquelyn Adams.