Eastern Music Festival, Greensboro, NC

Joy is a dedicated, enthusiastic musician with twenty-four years professional teaching experience, and twenty-five years experience as a full-time symphony orchestra musician. In addition to orchestral performance, Joy has a private teaching studio, and teaches and performs at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina in the summers. She has been on the faculties of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas and Towson University in Towson, Maryland. During the fall of 2021, she is guest professor of horn at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. Joy was honored to be the Visiting Professor of Horn at her alma mater, The University of Georgia, in 2014-2015.
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Joy has been a featured guest artist at several events, including the upcoming Horn Day at North Carolina School of the Arts in March, 2022. She was most recently a guest artist at Shenandoah Conservatory’s Brass Day in November 2021, and at the Southeast Horn Workshop at The University of Georgia in February of 2018. Other events include The University of Southern Mississippi's Horn Day in 2014, and The University of Virginia's first annual Brassfest in 2015.

Joy received her musical training from The University of Georgia, earning a Bachelor of Music in Education, and received a Master of Music in Orchestral Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Her teachers were
Dr. Jean Martin-Williams and Erik Ralske.


Teaching experience includes:

  • Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro, NC): Faculty Horn: 2007 – present

  • Bar Harbor Brass Week (Bar Harbor, ME): Faculty Horn: 2006 – 2015

  • Private Teaching Studio, all ability levels: 1997 – present

  • Visiting Professor of Horn; Shenandoah Conservatory, 2021

  • Visiting Professor of Horn; The University of Georgia: 2014-2015

  • Guest Artist: North Carolina School of the Arts Horn Day 2022

  • Guest Artist: Shenandoah Conservatory Brass Day, 2021

  • Guest Artist Masterclass: The University of Georgia: January 2020

  • Guest Artist Masterclass: The University of Alabama Horn Studio: January 2019

  • Guest Artist; Southeast Horn Workshop; The University of Georgia, 2018

  • ​Guest Artist, BrassFest; The University of Virginia: March 2015

  • Guest Artist, University of Southern Mississippi Horn Day: February 2014

  • Park View High School (Sterling, VA): Horn Instructor: 2011 - 2013

  • Towson University (Towson, MD): Professor of Horn: 2006 – 2009

  • Herndon High School (Herndon, VA): Horn Instructor: 2004 – 2009

  • DC Youth Orchestra Program, Horn Instructor: 2004

  • St. Mary’s University (San Antonio, TX): Adjunct Professor of Horn: 2000-2003

  • Music Advancement Program, St. Philip’s College, Horn Instructor: 1999-2001

  • Texas Lutheran University Summer Music Academy (Seguin, TX): Horn Instructor, 2002, 2003

  • Brass Instructor (San Antonio, TX): Northeast Independent School District, Northside Independent School District, Comal Independent School District: 1998-2003