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Abigail Pack, a native of Roanoke, Virginia, received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. in 1994 before earning a Master of Arts degree in Horn Performance and Pedagogy in 1996 from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. where she was a teaching assistant and toured with the faculty brass quintet. Ms. Pack recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her doctoral coursework there in May 2001 before returning to Virginia to begin her present teaching position at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. She has held teaching positions at Knox College in Galesburg, IL., Western State College in Gunnison, CO., and in the Gunnison Watershed School District in Gunnison, CO. and was awarded the Bolz Teaching Fellowship while in residence at UW-Madison.
Ms. Pack has held playing positions with the Barton Symphony Orchestra, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, and with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. She currently performs as a member of the Madison Brass, Montpelier Winds, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, the Southwest Chamber Orchestra, the Roanoke Opera, and with the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Winds of Wintergreen (WOW). She serves as the Virginia State Area Respresentative of the International Horn Society, on the advisory board of the Southeast Regional Horn Workshop, and on the advisory board of the American Hunting Horn Society.
Her primary teachers include Mary Burroughs, Kristin Thelander, and Douglas Hill.