Ms. Bridgette Yancy is a native Atlantan and alumnus of North Atlanta High School in the Atlanta public schools district. She received her bachelor degree from Loyola University New Orleans in Music Education and her master degree from The Florida State University in Music Education. She currently holds teaching certificates in Instrumental music from the state of Louisiana in grades Pre-K-Twelve, and from the state of Georgia in music grades Pre-K through twelve and in middle grades language arts for grades 4-8. She enjoys freelancing as a professional violinist playing with the Macon Symphony Orchestra, The Bridge String Quartet, and appearing with Stevie Wonder in the 2003 Essence music festival. She can be seen playing her violin in the video for rapper T-Pain's song, Drowning again. She owns and operates her own Summer music camp, Camp Etude, LLC and teaches music lessons to students around the metro Atlanta area. She is also the director of the Instruments of Praise orchestra of Atlanta, Georgia. She has taught in The New Orleans public school system of Orleans parish, Sakkara Youth Institute in Tallahassee, Florida, The Florida State University, Clayton County schools in Georgia, Fulton county schools in Georgia and currently in the Atlanta pubic schools system. Over the years, her orchestra groups have earned superior ratings at the GMEA large group performance evaluation concerts, participated in the district honor orchestras and orchestra clinics, as well as music festivals such as Music in the Parks at Six Flags Over Georgia and performing at the City Walk in Universal Studios of Orlando, Florida. Many of her students have received music scholarships for colleges and universities across the United States. She has always had the desire to teach at Coan middle school and is happy that this has become a reality!