About Ashley Williams

Ashley S. Moore is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong passion for music with a musical journey that started for as long as she can remember. Her love and passion for collides with her love for teaching. Her creative, yet innovative approach to teaching makes learning both fun and adaptable to students with different learning styles. With her vast experience and specialization in wind instrumental music, her goal is to not only teach and mold great musicians, but innovative and uplifting people. Her hopes are to aid in building musicality that will can uplift and bring the beauty out of all persons. Ashley currently holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Industry with a minor in Music Education (BULLDOG COUNTRY!), specialization in Instrumental music. She also holds a certificate in ethnomusicology from Liberty University. She is currently working towards her Master of Music Education from the University of Georgia (GO DAWGS!), which she will obtain in spring 2025. Ashley has been teaching music for over ten (15) years unofficially, and eight (8) officially. She has also performed in the movie and television productions such as “Drumline Two: A New Beat” and “Captain America”, alongside other talented members of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). She has performed, hosted master classes, in multiple countries such as Jamaica, England, and Canada. Her primary instruments are the trombone and her voice. Her secondary instruments are the following: flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, French horn, baritone, tuba, piano, and cello. Her passion for music was rooted throughout her family, with paternal members of her family being multi instrumentalists in Jamaica (her family origin), her maternal side being filled with vocalists, her aunt and uncle being recording artists, and other family influences.

 Throughout her years in elementary school, Ashley realized that she enjoyed teaching and grew a fascination with musical instruments. It was then when she was in high school when she started her journey towards learning more instruments. She first picked up the baritone, then matriculated to learning all brass. In conjunction to this process, she then began to teach and realized that she enjoyed teaching music as well. She obtained her first three students in high school, all trombone players. She was also trombone section leader all throughout high school. Then in her senior year of high school, she decided that she wanted to dabble in woodwind land, so she then picked up both flute and clarinet, which came surprisingly easy to her. It was then when she came up with her music teaching studio, Musically Yours Studio, LLC, which she still runs today. Ashley started in concert band in middle school, but then had the opportunity to join the marching with the high school. Since starting marching band in middle school, her various band experience carried her throughout her band career. 

Upon graduating from Stone Mountain High School, Ashley received over $200,000 in just music scholarship offers, as well as receiving the John Phillip Sousa award for her outstanding musicianship. As a student at South Carolina State University, multiple doors opened for Ashley to advance as she performed in multiple award-winning instrumental ensembles offered, such as the Marching ‘101’ Band, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, Brass Quintet, Trombone Ensembles and many more. In all the ensembles, she was either section leader or the principal player of the section she played in. Ashley studied under the prestigious private music instructors in her musical career: Mr. Joseph Celmer, Dr. Robert Slade, Mr. Eddie Ellis, Dr. John Robinson, Mr. Garrick Rivers, Dr. Linda Williams, and Dr. Julia Quick. She also still taught music lessons at the local music stores in Orangeburg and surrounding cities. Upon graduating from South Carolina State University, she obtained her first official teaching position in South Carolina as a band and choral director. She then decided to come back to Georgia and continue to teach, perform, and continue to center her life and career with music. 

Currently, Ashley serves as an assistant high school band director and private music instructor in the Atlanta and surrounding counties. Her professional affiliations include Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority Incorporated, the Women Band Directors Association, the International Trombone Association, Georgia Music Educators Association, Music Teachers National Association, and National Association for Music Education. She continues to actively perform as a member of multiple prestigious ensembles and groups, such as the Conyers-Covington Community Orchestra, Orchestra Noir, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble, Peachtree Symphonic Winds, North Georgia Winds, , and the Georgia State University Perimeter Community Wind Ensemble. Ashley loves spending time, being goofy with, travelling with her husband, Fabian, and having fun with her family and friends.