Rebecca Tyree
Assistant professor
Choral music education, Choral Arts Society and Women’s Choir
Phone: (804) 828-1360
E-mail: rtyree2@vcu.edu
Office: James W. Black Music Center, Room 1005
Rebecca Tyree serves as assistant professor of choral music education at VCU in Richmond, Va., where her responsibilities include conducting the Choral Arts Society and Women’s Choir, teaching choral methods, conducting, class voice and keyboard, supervising student teachers and assisting with Department of Music admissions.
Tyree has been a choral music educator for the past 26 years. Most recently, she was department chair and choral director at Richmond’s Hermitage High School for 13 years. Her choirs have toured nationally and internationally and performed at the VMEA state conference. Tyree also served as the artistic director and conductor of the Chamber Chorale of Fredericksburg for 10 years. She served as music director for the Fredericksburg Theatre Company for three seasons and has extensive experience in the musical theatre genre. She is an active adjudicator and clinician for music festivals and guest conductor for honor choirs for the Mid-Atlantic region. She served as R&S chair for Community Choirs for the Virginia chapter of the American Choral Directors Association for six years, was a board member of the Fredericksburg Fine Arts Commission, served as District I All-State Audition Chair, and hosted many district VMEA events. She is currently president-elect for Virginia ACDA.
Tyree was named Music Educator of the Year for Henrico County Public Schools in 2000 and received the Gilman Award for Excellence in Education from HCPS in 2003. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. She holds a B.M.E. from VCU, and an M.M. from the University of Maryland, College Park.
