Tracy Tyler is currently an instructor of music at Jacksonville State University. He teaches percussion and percussion pedagogy. He also conducts the JSU Percussion Ensemble and the JSU Mallet Ensemble. Mr. Tyler is the Principle Timpanist of the Rome Symphony Orchestra and the Gadsden Symphony Orchestra and is involved with performances and clinics throughout Alabama and Georgia. He has studied with Jack Berhend, Derryl Goes, Kofie McDonald, and Jack Moore, timpanist with the Minneapolis Symphony. He taught at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, and has attended seminars by Linda Pimentel, Cloyd Duff, and Leigh Howard Stephens.

Mr. Tyler was a member of the U.S. Army Band, "Perishing's Own", in Washington, D.C. He received his M.M. in performance at the University of Northern Colorado and was the assistant band director at South Dakota State University before coming to Alabama.

"If teaching music is my job, then performing music is my hobby." Tracy performs regularly with a jazz quartet (drumset), a brass quintet (timpani + percussion), The Chamber Players of The South, a steel drum band named "JAXPAN" (double tenor pans + marimba), and a jazz duet called "Just the Two of Us" (vibes). Recently he has formed a swing band with four horns and a rhythm section. Mr. Tyler is a featured artist on the newly released BTJ Trio CD, "something borrowed...", a collection of jazz standards arranged for guitar, bass & vibes.

Mr. Tyler is a licensed pilot with an instrument rating. He also loves to travel with his wife and best friend, Peg, a travel agent at Model City Travel in Anniston.