Orchestra

Grace Parsons has been teaching orchestra for nineteen years, with the past four years at Duluth Middle School.  She has spent her career in Fulton and Gwinnett Counties, in both public and private schools, teaching elementary, middle, and high school orchestras.  Throughout her career, Ms. Parsons’ groups have consistently received superior ratings at large group performance evaluations.  She has been a clinician for honor orchestra groups throughout the metro Atlanta area.  

Ms. Parsons is a member of the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) and American String Teachers Association (ASTA).  She has presented professional development sessions at the GMEA Conference.  She served two terms as treasurer for the Georgia American String Teacher Association and currently serves as a Lead Teacher in GCPS, director of the GA ASTA Camp, and an organizer for the District 13 Honor Orchestra.  

Ms. Parsons holds a degree in Bachelor of Music Education from Georgia State University and a Master’s in Music Education from University of Georgia.  She currently resides 2 miles from her school with her husband and two children, and likes to go to Publix and Target where she runs into her students all the time.  
 

Hailing from Dobbs Ferry, New York, Lucas Legan has been playing the viola since the age of eight. During his secondary years, Mr. Legan was a student at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, where he studied viola with Naomi Graf in addition to weekly chamber music, music theory, and musicianship instruction. In addition to his training at Hoff-Barthelson, Mr. Legan was a member of the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra, with whom he gave three performances at Carnegie Hall and a tour to Spain. These experiences led Mr. Legan to continue his musical journey at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of violist Kathryn Plummer and achieved a B.M. in Music Education with minors in German and musicology, as well as an M.Ed. in Instrumental Music Education. Before teaching at Duluth Middle School, Mr. Legan was in Tennessee teaching at Metro Nashville Public Schools and Williamson County Schools and is eager to contribute his ideas and talent to Gwinnett County. Outside of teaching, Mr. Legan performs as a violist with the Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra and enjoys exploring new hiking spots with his brother, Stanley, who is a bassist.