Tricia Skye is in her fourteenth season with the San Diego Symphony. In Los Angeles, she studied privately with Jerry Folsom, former coprincipal horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as with James Decker and Joseph Meyer. After finishing high school, Ms. Skye played principal horn with the Debut Orchestra and the American Youth Symphony under the baton of Mehli Mehta. At the age of twenty, Ms. Skye won a position with the Philharmonic of the Nations, a touring orchestra based out of Germany where she spent the next year traveling all over the world.
After returning to Los Angeles, Ms. Skye worked as a recording musician playing for numerous records, television shows and movies. Ms. Skye has performed concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Phoenix Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic as well as the Mainly Mozart festival in San Diego and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. In 1998 Ms. Skye began playing horn for the San Diego Symphony where she has enjoyed many years of beautiful musicmaking and wonderful friendships.