Robin Tryon

Robin Tryon has been the flute instructor at Mount Union College since 1985 and at Malone College since 2001. She graduated summa cum laude from Bowling Green State University with a B.M in music education, and from the University of Akron with a M.M. in flute performance.

She is the founder and director of both the Mount Union College Flute Choir and the Stark County Honors Flute Choir, as well as the director of the Malone College Flute Ensemble.  The flute choirs perform frequently at the Central Ohio, Northeast Ohio, and Dana Flute Festivals, as well as recitals at area schools, churches, clubs, and civic events throughout the year.

Tryon has had instruction and coaching with Maurice Sharp, William Hebert, Harold Skinner, George Pope, and Anne Whaley-Laney.  She has performed with the Canton Symphony and the Canton Symphony Woodwind Quintet, the Canton Concert Band, the Tuscarawas Philharmonic, the Bayless Symphonic Winds, the Dolce Musica Quintet and has been soloist with several musical ensembles including the Canton Concert Band, the Mount Union College Wind Symphony, and the Alliance Symphony.

Active as a free-lance musician, she performs in the pit orchestras of the Player’s Guild and Kent Stark Musicals.  Tryon serves as adjudicator for competitions including those of the National Flute Association and Northeast Ohio Flute Association, and participates as a clinician and flute choir conductor for workshops, festivals, and conferences throughout Ohio.