Donna Kelly Eastman has had a varied musical career, which includes keyboard and vocal performance, choral and chamber ensemble direction, studio and classroom teaching, and writing and arranging music for many settings. She received her undergraduate education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Maryland. She has received composition awards from the Roodepoort International Eisteddfod of South Africa, the Florilege Vocal de Tours International Choral Competition, the Delius Competition, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the National League of American Pen Women Music Composition Competition, the Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program of the American Music Center, the Composer's Guild International Competition, and the National Federation of Music Clubs Glad Robinson Youse Competition; and commissions from Judith Lapple, Principal Flute -- US Air Force Band, Genevieve Fritter-Bieber, Concertmistress Emeritus -- National Ballet Orchestra, the Kirkwood Flute Ensemble, and Connor Smith, Soprano.

Dr. Eastman's music is published by Editions a Coeur Joie, Lyons, France, and her work, Just Us, appears in the journal of the Society of Composers, Inc. She has held Visiting Composer positions at Illinois Wesleyan University and Sweet Briar College, and is a Fellow of the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. Dr. Eastman is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, and Who's Who in the World, and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honorary and Phi Kappa Phi National Academic Honor Society. She is President of the Southeastern Composers League, on the audition committee for the Friday Morning Music Club of Washington D.C., and is actively involved with the Society of Composers Inc. and the Washington D.C. alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota. She is also a member of the American Composers Forum, the International Alliance for Women in Music and SEAMUS, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. Ms. Eastman is a BMI affiliate and a charter member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.