Dr. Stacie Mickens is Professor of Horn at the University of North Texas College of Music. Prior to UNT, she was Associate Professor at the Dana School of Music, Youngstown State University and adjunct faculty at Luther College and Winona State University. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Luther College.

Mickens is a member of The Dallas Opera and has performed with Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Plano Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Chamber Winds, Blossom Music Festival, Monarch Brass, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. She previously held positions in orchestras in Richardson, Akron, Wheeling, Youngstown, Lansing, Dearborn, Southwest Michigan, La Crosse, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, and Dubuque.

Mickens’ solo album From the Great Lakes features new works by David Morgan and James Wilding. “Stacie Mickens’s playing is superb; her musicality has a sort of confidence that makes one feel entirely secure in her hands…” – Fanfare Nov/Dec 2020. “Stacie Mickens…shows masterful control of her instrument throughout the CD, displaying the diverse sound quality of the horn with beautifully lyrical and melancholic playing…”– Brass Band World Dec 2020.

She is a founding member of the Lantana Trio and is also a member of Stiletto Brass Quintet. Lantana Trio’s 2022 album, Crossing Barriers, features commissioned works by Jeff Scott, Ivette Herryman Rodriguez, Shanyse Strickland, Dorothy Gates, and Erik Morales. The group co-hosted the International Women’s Brass Conference at UNT in 2022.