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Dr. Tomisha
Price-Brock
Director of University Bands · Assistant Professor of Music · Music Program Coordinator
She holds the distinct honor of being the first female band director at Johnson C. Smith University.
- First at JCSU
- First at Clark Atlanta
- First in the SIAC
In 2017 she made history as the first female band director at Clark Atlanta University and in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The biosketch
An Accomplished
Educator
Dr. Brock has led superior instrumental and vocal ensembles at the public school level and in higher education across Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Washington and Nevada.
A native of Carrollton, Virginia, she began her education at the age of three at the Hampton University Laboratory Institute and graduated from Smithfield High School at the age of sixteen. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Virginia State University in 2005, a Master of Music Education from Norfolk State University in 2011, and completed additional coursework at Capella University, Southern University of Utah and the University of Illinois–Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2020.
She currently serves as President of the Intercollegiate Music Association.
Education
Career
Appointments
Beyond the podium
Service &
Affiliation
In the Community
- Owner and CEO, Prodigious Music Concepts, LLC
- Professional Development Specialist
- Teacher Licensure and Educational Consultant
- Founder and Executive Director, Fuel Your Dreams Foundation
- Founder and Executive Director, The HBCU Recruitment Center, PSC
Honorary & Member
- Honorary member, Tuba Phi Tuba Brass Fellowship
- Honorary member, Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority, Inc.
- Honorary member, Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc.
- Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated
- Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women
Professional Memberships
- Intercollegiate Music Association — President
- HBCU National Band and Orchestra Directors’ Consortium
- College Band Directors National Association
- Association of Black Women Band Directors — Charter Member
- Women Band Directors International
- National Band Association
- National Association for Music Education · NC Music Educators Association · SCDBA
- American Association of Blacks in Higher Education
- National Black Musicians’ Coalition
Alumni Associations
- Virginia State University
- Norfolk State University
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro