Music has been a lifelong joy for Dorie. Her first formal experience began at age seven when she successfully auditioned for a local girls’ choir. 

By age nine she began playing flute and, though not formally trained until much later, would also play her family’s upright piano for hours at a time.  By age ten, she had decided that composing was her calling and began writing music primarily on piano. 

As a pre-teen, Dorie began training through the Austin Chamber Music Society, playing flute and singing in various chamber groups.  Later, she went on to earn her Music Composition degree through the University of Texas at Austin and later completed a second degree in Sound Recording Technologies through Texas State.  While obtaining these degrees, Dorie worked at Apple Inc. as technical support (a “Senior Advisor”), and also as a freelance flute and piano teacher, music transcriber, and as a composer for short films.  Now, she is happily splitting her time between teaching music and composing.

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