BME, Indiana University; MM, George Mason University. In addition to teaching The Art of Teaching Music and Class Voice at George Mason University Prof. East is the Music Director at Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston. She has taught every level of music for Fairfax County Public Schools for the past eight years; the last six were as Choral Director at George C. Marshall High School.
While at George Mason University pursuing her MM in Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting, Prof. East performed in several GMU Opera Theatre productions. She sang the roles of Suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica, Violetta in Act I scene I of La Traviata, Cathleen in Riders to the Sea, and Queen of the Night in Die Zaubeflöte.
Prof. East also performs in the Washington Metropolitan Region, most notably with Washington Women’s Chorus with whom she premiered Katherine Dienes’s Hannah’s Song in spring 2006 and performed Amy Beach’s The Chambered Nautilus, Orban’s Mass, and collections of French pieces for soprano and women’s chorus.