Yamaha Performing Artist Sophia Tegart serves as Assistant Professor of Flute at Washington State University where she was awarded the 2023 President’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Early Career Achievement Award. During the summers, she has taught at Young Musicians and Artist (YMA), Interharmony International Music Festival in Acqui Terme, Italy, and Music for All.
Tegart has performed at National Flute Association conventions, College Music Society regional and national conferences, China ASEAN Music Week, International Conference on Women’s Work in Music in Bangor, Wales, and the Thailand International Composition Festival. Tegart is flutist in the Pan Pacific Ensemble, a wind quintet dedicated to the advancement of music by composers from around the Pacific Rim. The Pan Pacific Ensemble has released three albums (Feng, ironhorses, and Ambiguous Traces) through Albany Records. They were featured on the 2022 Chamber Music America Showcase and received the 2022 American Prize in Professional Chamber Music as well. Tegart can also be heard on Flute Duos by Women Composers (2021) with the Cherry Street Duo and the Crossroads Quartet album (2022). Tegart’s solo albums include Palouse Songbook (2020) and Cleaning Up Broken Glass (2025), both of which can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming sources, along with her other albums.
Performing in the orchestral world, Tegart performs with the Walla Walla Symphony and the Washington Idaho Symphony. She has held positions with the Oregon Mozart Players and the Des Moines Metro Opera and was guest principal flutist in the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and she regularly subs with the Spokane Symphony. In the past, Tegart performed regularly with the Kansas City Symphony, the Portland Festival Symphony, and the Colorado Mahlerfest Orchestra.
Tegart received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance where she held the flute fellowship in the Graduate Woodwind Quintet and studied with Dr. Mary Posses. She holds an MM in Performance and MA in Music History from the University of Oregon and a BM in Performance and BA in History from Washington State University.