Dr. Heather Small is Assistant Professor of Flute at Troy University’s John M. Long School of Music. She teaches music theory courses, class woodwinds, applied flute, and directs the flute ensemble. Dr. Small received a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Oberlin Conservatory, a Masters Degree in Flute Performance from the University of North Texas and a Doctorate of Music Performance from Florida State University, where she won the University Doctoral Concerto Competition. Her principal teachers are Michel Debost, Mary Karen Clardy and Eva Amsler.
Dr. Small frequently performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles at venues throughout the United States. She performed at National Flute Association conferences in Las Vegas, NV and Charlotte, NC and at conferences by the College Music Society and the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. An advocate of new music by living composers, she premiered Paul Osterfield’s Zipline at Florida State University and Gary Schocker's Night and Day at the Mid-South Flute Society conference. She has performed with the Midland-Odessa, Tallahassee, Chattanooga, Huntington,Valdosta and Cave Run Symphonies and was a finalist in the Myrna Brown Young Artist Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Prior to her appointment at Troy University, Dr. Small was a faculty member at Morehead State University, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Southern Adventist University, and Messiah College. She was recognized as the 2015 Outstanding Part-Time Teacher by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and has been published in Flute Talk magazine. Additionally she has five years of teaching experience in public schools in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Small is active as a clinician and adjudicator in the Southeast. As a member of the National Flute Association, she has served on the Pedagogy Committee and been a coordinating judge for four years in the NFA Newly Published Music Competition. In the Fall of 2021, she will begin a four year term as the Newly Published Music Competition Coordinator.
Dr. Small frequently performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles at venues throughout the United States. She performed at National Flute Association conferences in Las Vegas, NV and Charlotte, NC and at conferences by the College Music Society and the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. An advocate of new music by living composers, she premiered Paul Osterfield’s Zipline at Florida State University and Gary Schocker's Night and Day at the Mid-South Flute Society conference. She has performed with the Midland-Odessa, Tallahassee, Chattanooga, Huntington,Valdosta and Cave Run Symphonies and was a finalist in the Myrna Brown Young Artist Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Prior to her appointment at Troy University, Dr. Small was a faculty member at Morehead State University, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Southern Adventist University, and Messiah College. She was recognized as the 2015 Outstanding Part-Time Teacher by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and has been published in Flute Talk magazine. Additionally she has five years of teaching experience in public schools in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Small is active as a clinician and adjudicator in the Southeast. As a member of the National Flute Association, she has served on the Pedagogy Committee and been a coordinating judge for four years in the NFA Newly Published Music Competition. In the Fall of 2021, she will begin a four year term as the Newly Published Music Competition Coordinator.