Flutist Dr. Yvonne Chavez Hansbrough holds music degrees from New Mexico State University (B.M.E.), the University of Arizona (M.M.), and Florida State University (D.M.). Her primary teachers were Susan West, Jean-Louis Kashy, and Charles Delaney. Additional studies have been with Louis Moyse and Geoffrey Gilbert and baroque flute with Janet See, Stephen Preston, and Christopher Krueger.
While pursing her doctorate at FSU, she was a recipient of a University Fellowship and taught applied flute and baroque flute as a teaching assistant. She has served on the faculties of New Mexico State University and Middle Tennessee State University. Additionally, she has taught at the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts and the Skidmore Flute Institute.
Dr. Hansbrough was founder of the Middle Tennessee Flute Society and coordinated several flute festivals. She hosted several prominent flutists including Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Susan Milan, Michele Debost, Viviana Guzman, and many others. She has presented master classes/clinics at several festivals including the MidSouth Flute Festival, the Chattanooga Area Flute Society Summer Festival, the Skidmore Flute Festival, the Skidmore Flute Institute, and the Richmond Flute Festival.
She has performed with several orchestras including the Las Cruces Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony (AL), the Albany Symphony, the Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival Orchestra, and Glimmerglass Opera.
As a soloist, she has performed concerti with the Middle Tennessee Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, and the Nashville Symphony. She has performed in recital at the Troy Savings Bank in Troy, NY, Skidmore College, the Pleshakov Music Center in Hudson, NY, and several performances in the South and Southwest. While living in Nashville, she appeared several times on Nashville Public Radio's Live in Studio C program. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Stones River Chamber Players twice at Piccolo Spoleto and has played baroque flute since 1999 at the Foundation For Baroque Music Festival in Greenfield Center, NY. As a two-time winner of the National Flute Association Convention Performers Competition, she has performed at National Conventions in Kansas City, MI, and Orlando, Fl. She was also invited to perform at the 1999 Convention in Atlanta.
Dr. Hansbrough is currently lecturer of music at The College of Saint Rose, where she teaches Applied Flute, Flute Ensemble, Ear Training, and Music History. In addition, she is principal flutist of the Glens Falls Symphony and flutist and Director of the Saint Rose Camerata Musicale.