Based in Chattanooga, TN, Staci A. Spring enjoys a versatile career as a professional bassoonist, music educator, and arts advocate. Dr. Spring is the recently appointed Lecturer of Bassoon & Academic Studies at Middle Tennessee State University, and she has been artist faculty for the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts summer program since 2016. An active performer, she can be heard playing bassoon and contrabassoon as a frequent guest musician with the Knoxville Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, and Nashville Symphony orchestras, and in other creative collaborations across the region. Spring maintains a private bassoon studio of middle and high school students, and is the founder/director of Scenic City Bassoons. She holds a D.M.A. in Bassoon Performance from the University of North Texas, where she studied bassoon with Kathleen Reynolds and also completed a Graduate Academic Certificate in Arts Leadership as a Priddy Scholarship recipient. She earned dual Master of Music degrees in Historical Musicology and Bassoon Performance from The Florida State University, studying with scholar Denise Von Glahn and bassoonist Jeffrey Keesecker. She completed her undergraduate studies at Brevard College in North Carolina.