Avery Pettigrew, a freelance musician engaged throughout the DC area and a regular member
of the Manassas Symphony Orchestra, is the MSO's featured soloist for Musical Morsels on
March 4, 2017. She is performing James Beckel's horn concerto The Glass Bead Game.
Dr. L. Avery Pettigrew is a freelance musician engaged throughout the DC area. She performs regularly with
her chamber ensemble Potomac Winds, Manassas Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of the Potomac, Washington
Sinfonietta, and the HUB Opera Ensemble. As a student with Samantha La Pointe-Woolf at Tulane University in
New Orleans, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Performance and a Bachelor of Science
in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
At Tulane she was not only a member of the university's orchestra and chamber ensembles, but also of the
Tulane Jazz Orchestra, which performed annually at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. While in New
Orleans, Dr. Pettigrew played with the British Brass Band of Louisiana, which shared concerts with the
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dr. Pettigrew earned both her Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees at the University of
Maryland-College Park, where she held a performance-based graduate assistantship as a student of Gregory
Miller and Phil Munds. Her summers have entailed engagements at various festivals including the Wintergreen
Summer Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, and the National Orchestral Institute. In
addition to operating a private studio based in Chantilly, Dr. Pettigrew works as a horn instructor with
several schools in Loudoun and Fairfax Counties in Virginia.