Dr. Heather Small holds music performance degrees from Florida State University and the University of North Texas. She earned her bachelor of music education degree from Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with Michel Debost. Small made her international performing debut in Jönköping, Sweden and regularly appears with her collaborative partner, Dr. Hui-Ting Yang, piano. The Small-Yang Duo has performed together in recitals across the southeast and at numerous professional music conferences for the past ten years.
An admirer of new music, she premiered Rain and Shine by Gary Schocker at the Kentucky Flute Festival. She has also performed at the National Flute Association conventions in Kansas City, MO, Charlotte, NC and Las Vegas, NV, the Florida Flute Association State Convention, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference. Additionally, a semifinalist for the Myrna Brown Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Small served as principal flute with the Midland-Odessa Symphony and the West Texas Winds. She can be heard on recordings with the North Texas Wind Symphony (Klavier 2000-2002).
Before accepting her current positions at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and Southern Adventist University, Dr. Small was the flute instructor at Messiah College and a visiting assistant professor of flute at Stephen F. Austin University. She teaches Applied Flute, Introduction to Music, Woodwind Methods, Fundamental Theory, and the UTC Flute Ensemble.
An admirer of new music, she premiered Rain and Shine by Gary Schocker at the Kentucky Flute Festival. She has also performed at the National Flute Association conventions in Kansas City, MO, Charlotte, NC and Las Vegas, NV, the Florida Flute Association State Convention, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference. Additionally, a semifinalist for the Myrna Brown Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Small served as principal flute with the Midland-Odessa Symphony and the West Texas Winds. She can be heard on recordings with the North Texas Wind Symphony (Klavier 2000-2002).
Before accepting her current positions at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and Southern Adventist University, Dr. Small was the flute instructor at Messiah College and a visiting assistant professor of flute at Stephen F. Austin University. She teaches Applied Flute, Introduction to Music, Woodwind Methods, Fundamental Theory, and the UTC Flute Ensemble.
