Mallory Tabb is originally from the Chicago area and has worked in Michigan as a music educator and freelance performer since 2013. A student of psychology and music business as well as violin, viola, and piano performance, she holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has also completed advanced studies in music at Jacksonville University and Carnegie Mellon University and studied with professors from the Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Rice University, Florida State University, and the Eastman School of Music. 

Currently the Assistant Concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony and a member of the Jackson Symphony since 2014, Mallory has served in principal positions and appeared as guest concertmaster and featured soloist with many orchestras throughout the US. In recent years, she has performed most often with the Detroit Opera Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, Mallory participated in the launch of Jackson Symphony's "Concert Aglow" series and has continued there in the role of Quartet Manager. 

Mallory has performed professionally as a violist with a variety of organizations including the Jackson Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival. Additionally, while specializing in violin performance during undergraduate studies, she studied piano at a high level and performed alongside members of the piano performance degree class at Jacksonville University. Mallory's piano improvisation teachers include Leslie Purcell Upchurch (Dalcroze NYC) and Sylvia Contreras Andrews (University of Chile). 

Mallory is the owner and founder of Elevation Harmony, a private music studio in Ann Arbor that specializes in approaching music education from a holistic perspective, adapting learning plans to each student’s unique needs, interests, and learning style. Outside of her private studio, she has experience teaching for a wide variety of music schools throughout the US including five years serving as Junior Division Coordinator for the University of Michigan String Preparatory Academy.

Mallory is trained in the Suzuki Method, is a certified Violin Technique Method Coach, and has extensive training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She has studied with renowned pedagogues such as Mimi Zweig, Paul Kantor, Jan Coleman, Danielle Belen and Ed Kreitman. Additionally, her teaching approach draws on concepts learned from extensive studies in non-musical modalities such as Holistic Psychology, Mindfulness, Vipassana Meditation, Emotional Healing, the Enneagram, Self-Image Psychology, Yoga, Somatic Healing and Human Design.

Mallory lives in Ann Arbor with her dogs, Dobby and Luna. When she is not teaching or performing, she enjoys playing pickleball, hiking, and learning more about the fascinating complexities of the human experience.