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Department of Music
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6230
Fax: 910.521.6390
Email: music@uncp.edu
Location: Moore Hall
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Dr. JOANNA HERSEY
Joanna Ross Hersey is Assistant Professor of Low Brass at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she teaches trombone, euphonium and tuba and conducts the Low Brass Ensemble. Joanna studied with Dan Perantoni at Arizona State University, received a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music studying with Chester Schmitz, and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance from the Hartt School.
As Principal Tubist with the United States Coast Guard Band, Joanna performed throughout the country as a soloist and clinician after winning the position at the age of nineteen. Joanna has played for three U.S. Presidents, performed at numerous state functions for visiting dignitaries, and has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America. In her freelance career she has performed with artists including Placido Domingo, Roberta Flack, Marilyn Horne, Michael Bolton, Arlo Guthrie, Lee Greenwood, Arturo Sandoval and Jack Nicholson.
Joanna is a founding member of the Athena Brass Band, a group first created for the 2003 International Women’s Brass Conference which has since performed at the 2006 IWBC, and has been featured at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky. As a member of the Alchemy Tuba-Euphonium Quartet, Joanna performs throughout North America and Europe and can be heard on the group’s compact disc recording Village Dances. Alchemy is in residence each February at the Horn-Tuba Workshop in Jever, Germany where the group performs recitals, gives master-classes and conducts ensembles. Joanna is currently recording her first solo album, entitled O quam mirabilis, featuring music by Hildegard von Bingen, Libby Larson, and more! For more information and to listen to recent recordings, visit Joanna at joannahersey.com.
Updated: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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