About the Director

Grace Lege is new to East Cobb Middle School as of January 2024. Ms. Lege graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor's in instrumental music education. Her specialty is orchestral strings and her primary instrument is the cello. She has hosted 2025 District XII Honor Orchestra Auditions at East Cobb Middle school, and plans to continue doing so. Fun fact: she started cello in 6th grade right here in Cobb County! She spends her summers as faculty for the Upbeat! music  camp of East Cobb. 

Previously, she received honors for her degree due to her research, performance and thesis titled "Dangerous Music: Censorship in Wartime and Protest Music". She has worked with schools such as Williams IB Middle Magnet School in Tampa, FL and Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, FL. Ms. Lege served as President of FSU's American String Teacher Association (ASTA) chapter. Under her residency, they won 2022's Most Improved Collegiate Chapter. Additionally, she has been Principal Cellist and String Coordinator of Florida State University's Studio Orchestra, where they create live soundtracks of films and video games with a giant screen for audiences. She also went performed on The University Symphony Orchestra's international tour at places such as Steinmetz Hall in Orlando and the Gran Teatro del Cibao in the Dominican Republic. 

When she is not teaching, Ms. Lege loves learning overly complicated board games with friends, taking care of her house plants, playing video games, and looking after her rescue cats named Toothless and Gizmo.