Personnel Bio

MUC Briana Tarby
Chief Musician Briana Tarby, of Edison, New Jersey, joined the Coast Guard Band in September 2012. She is the Co-Principal Oboe and social media chief for the Band. MUC Tarby is an active oboist in Southern New England, performing often with orchestras including the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, and Rhode Island Philharmonic, among others. She has conducted master classes for high school and college oboe students throughout the United States, and presented a clinic on teaching oboe students to hundreds of music educators in 2017 at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago, IL. Some of MUC Tarby’s favorite work in the US Coast Guard Band includes performing chamber music programs for approximately 15,000 elementary school children throughout Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Alaska, and Washington, D.C.

MUC Tarby received a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University and Master of Music from The New School’s Mannes School of Music, winning concerto competitions at both schools. She spent summers studying at Brevard Music Center and Aspen Music Festival and School. Her principal teachers have been Elaine Douvas, Roger Roe, Linda Strommen and Andy Adelson. Outside of making reeds and playing oboe, MUC Tarby is an educator and activist in reproductive health. Her hobbies include pole fitness, intuitive dance, meditation, and writing.