SSG Emily Barone
U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps

Staff Sergeant Emily Barone joined the Fife and Drum Corps in 2016. She is a native of Baltimore, MD, where she joined her first fife and drum corps, Monumental City Ancient Fife and Drum Corps. Her musical journey began with piano lessons at age seven from her grandmother and Santa Fe Opera Company singer, Valerie Murphy. Emily began her studies on flute at age nine and began playing fife at age 12. She is very grateful for her family’s involvement in her musical education. She attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music and received a Bachelor’s of Music in Flute Performance and Music Education and a minor in Early Music. Her principal teachers have included Ms. Sara Nichols and Ms. Laurie Sokoloff on flute/piccolo, Ms. Gwyn Roberts on baroque flute, and Mr. Donald Heminitz on fife.

SSG Barone is very interested in staying active in the American fife and drum community. She spends time performing with many fife and drum corps, as well as reenacting. Emily plays with the Grand Republic Fife and Drum Corps as well as many other corps. She traveled to Scotland with the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums to perform in the 2018 Edinburgh Military Tattoo. She is an avid music historian and is in charge of the Center for Martial Music in the Corps.

In her time away from the corps, she instructs the George Mason University Patriots Fife and Drum Corps as well as instructs privately. Fitness and health are also very important to SSG Barone. She coaches a “Girls on the Run” team, an elementary school running program for girls in grades 3-5. She has also trained to become an indoor cycling instructor and teaches classes in Arlington, VA.