Dr. Amy Hardison Tully holds the B.A. (Cum Laude with Honors) in Flute Performance from the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, the M.M. in Musicology from Northwestern University, and the Artist Diploma and D.M.A. in Flute Performance from the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

She is principal flutist with the Long Bay Symphony in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and assistant principal and piccoloist with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra in Fayetteville, N.C.  As a freelance artist, she has also performed with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (N.C.), the Thalian Hall Opera Theatre Orchestra (N.C.), the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (S.C), and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra (FL).  She is a founding member of The Tidelands Trio (flute, violin, and cello) and the Tully/Hull Flute and Guitar Duo, which performs regularly in North and South Carolina.  Tully has also been principal flutist on orchestral and wind ensemble tours in Germany, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic.

Dr. Tully was a winner of the Newly Published Music Contest sponsored by the National Flute Association and she performed at the 2007 annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Other conference invitations include recitals on the 2008 Florida Flute Association annual conference, the 2008 and 2009 South Carolina Flute Society in Columbia, and a presentation on flute ensemble music at the 2009 SCMEA annual conference.  In March 2009 she performed the world premiere of Paul Rice Songs by Beth Wiemann, which is a song cycle for soprano, flute, and guitar that she helped commission.

As Assistant Professor of Music at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., she teaches flute and music history and conducts the CCU Flute Choir.  She holds memberships in the South Carolina Flute Society, the Florida Flute Society, and the National Flute Association, and is currently Vice President of the South Carolina Flute Society.  Dr. Tully is an artist endorser of Azumi Flutes by Altus and Jupiter Flutes, and her research background focuses on the music of Frederick the Great, Henry Cowell, and other twentieth-century American composers.