&artistic=Tammy Vollom-Matturro received her BME degree from Bemidji State University, Minnesota, graduating magna cum laude with an emphasis in instrumental music. She has conducted bands and orchestras on the Kenai Peninsula since 1990 when she first moved to Alaska. She was the band director at Kenai Central High School and Kenai Middle School, then later taught music at Tustumena Elementary. Throughout her years in Alaska she has been a private music instructor on woodwinds and piano. 
She has been a performer on clarinet, saxophone and percussion, playing in the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra, the Juneau Symphony, and the Kalgin Island Quartet, as well as soloing and performing all over Alaska in string and woodwind chamber groups with local and nationally-known musicians such as Andrew Cook, Emily Grossman, Jan Coldwell, and Heather Williams. She was part of the 2006 world premiere of Adrienne Albert’s Animalogy.
She became the musical director for the Kenai Performers in 2000, and directed the pit orchestras for Music Man, Brigadoon, and My Favorite Year. Five years ago, she became the founder and artistic director of the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra, a Kenai-Soldotna based orchestra, which has appeared in concerts and in a New Year’s Eve production of a USO show, which included vocal solos (one of which she performed) and jazz pieces which she arranged for the group. 
In addition to being active in the musical community of the Kenai Peninsula and Alaska, she is a devoted wife, mother and early-childhood educator.