Performing Artist and Educational Leader
Tubist Joanna Ross Hersey (she/her) is a performing artist, composer, and United States Coast Guard veteran with twenty years’ experience as a leader in higher education, serving as Director of Student Success in the Falcone Center for Teaching and Learning and Applied Instructor of Tuba at Gordon College.
“[Hersey’s] playing was quite wonderful…like the compelling exhibition of an unusual and endangered bird.”
– Austin Statesman Newspaper
JOANNA’S BLOG
Session on Researching Women Brass Players Presented by HBS Membership Secretary at the 2024 Music by Women Festival
Originally posted on historicbrass.org Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi hosted the 7th annual Music by Women Festival in March 2024. Held in Kossen Auditorium in the historic Poindexter Music Hall, built in 1905 and home to the Department of...
UNCP Music Professor Honored with International Composition Award
Originally posted on UNCP.edu Dr. Joanna Hersey, professor of music and associate dean of Student Success and Curriculum for the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC Pembroke, was honored at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference held May 29-June 3 at Arizona...
Leadership and Music Discussion on “All the Hats We Wear” Podcast with Scott Snow
I very much enjoyed this podcast with music therapist and podcaster Scott Snow, on his All the Hats We Wear Podcast We talked about my life and career, and balancing the different hats, how I view the importance of my daily warm-up routine, and much more! Thank you...
“As a composer, the vastness and diversity of your albums O quam mirabilis and Zigzags have expanded my idea of how the tuba can sound and what can be written for tuba. Your work has encouraged me to write what I hear for tuba and to place no limits on the musicality the tuba can achieve.”
– Charles J. Lumar II
Hersey Artist Model Tuba Mouthpiece from Parker Mouthpieces.
Parker Mouthpieces are made in three interchangeable components: rim, cup and backbore. My Hersey cup will work with Hersey, Hitz, Helleberg/ Hall, Freelancer, Symphony, and Grand Parker backbores.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Carolina Philharmonic – Wizard of Oz (3pm and 7:30pm)
Join me at the symphony for our 18th season, opening with a screening of the full movie with our live orchestral accompaniment.
Associação de Eufônios e Tubas do Brasil
Join me at the Associação de Eufônios e Tubas do Brasil
