Tabatha Easley
Adjunct professor
Flute
Phone: (804) 828-6120
E-mail: tapeters@vcu.edu
Office: James W. Black Music Center, Room 1007
Tabatha Easley is an adjunct instructor of flute at VCU. Previously on the faculties of Franklin and Marshall, the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Nazareth College and the University of Virginia, she also taught University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music students as a graduate assistant to Bonita Boyd.
Easley has served as principal flutist of the Charlottesville Symphony, subbed regularly with the Buffalo Philharmonic and Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and was also a member of the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra in Alaska. Her summer activities have included the Skaneateles Chamber Festival, principal flutist of the Ash Lawn Opera Festival Orchestra, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and four summers at the Aspen Music Festival, two of which were as a fellowship recipient in David Zinman’s American Academy of Conducting Orchestra.
Active in the National Flute Association, Easley was a 2006 winner in the Convention Performers Competition and has performed with the Professional Flute Choir at multiple conferences. In addition, she has performed with the Fairbanks Flutists and the American Directors Ensemble at various conferences. In 2006, she conducted a flute choir reading session of more than 200 participants at the conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., introducing new works in the repertoire to other flute ensemble enthusiasts.
Easley holds a D.M.A. degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she was the first Alaskan to graduate with a doctoral degree. Other degrees include an M.A. from California State University at Long Beach and a bachelor’s in music education and performance from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her former teachers include Bonita Boyd, Michael Parloff, John Barcellona and Dorli McWayne.
