Biography

Dr. Ronda E. DePriest is the newest full-time faculty member in the School of Music, a division of the George Shinn College of Entertainment & the Arts, at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. DePriest serves as Professor of Instrumental Music Education and Director of Athletic Bands in this new position. She came out of retirement after the completion of her sixteenth year as Director of the Music Program and Professor of Instrumental Music at Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a 2010 Lucas-Hathaway Teaching Award recipient. She has forty years of teaching experience in both public and private schools in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. 

As an avid supporter of music education, DePriest has served as an adjudicator and as a guest conductor for numerous county, district, and regional honor bands at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, and as a clinician for music education clinics, conferences, and symposia. She offers her services as an arranger/transcriber of works for music ensembles including wind bands, choirs, chamber ensembles and accompanied solos as the owner/operator of RED Music Services.   

Dr. DePriest is a member of the National Association for Music Education, Tennessee Music Educators Association, Middle Tennessee Band and Orchestra Association, College Band Directors National Association, College Music Society, Conductors Guild, International Horn Society, and Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority and Kappa Kappa Psi/Sigma Tau national band fraternities. 

 

Academic Degrees

D.A. (Conducting) University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

M.A.(Instrumental Conducting) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

B.A. (Music Education, Instrumental/Vocal) Harding University, Searcy, AR

Academic Department

School of Music