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Ms. Thierry has worked as an educator in Ohio public schools and currently, is teaching elementary general music in the Chambersburg Area School District. She also directs the flute choir at Shippensburg University and maintains a private music studio through the Cumberland Valley School of Music. She previously taught on the faculties of Bowling Green State University, Wilson and Dickinson Colleges.
As a professional flutist and pianist, Ms. Thierry has appeared as a soloist or chamber musician on a variety of national venues, including National Public Radio, and has worked with composers from around the United States as a performer of contemporary music. A former administrator for Bowling Green State University’s New Music & Art Festival and MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, she has worked on several projects with the National Flute Association (competition coordinator, newly-published music judge, convention program book designer) and has served as a reader for the AP National Music Theory Examination.
Ms. Thierry is a member of the Chambersburg Ballet Orchestra, and freelances throughout the Cumberland Valley with such groups as the Shippensburg Summer Festival Orchestra and the Hagerstown Band. Thierry earned a bachelor’s degree in performance from the University of Alabama, and masters’ degrees in performance and music history from Bowling Green State University, with additional course work in Nice, France, at the International Summer Academy. Her teachers include Sheryl Cohen and Judith Bentley, and master class experience with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, and Samuel Baron.
When not teaching or performing, Ms. Thierry enjoys working on her home and yard, reading and hiking, and cheering on her favorite college football team, the Alabama Crimson Tide. Roll Tide, y’all!
