Dr. Tina Holmes-Davis is associate professor of music, specializing in music education, at Georgia College and State University and the founder and executive director of the Center for Music Education at Georgia College.

Holmes-Davis’s primary research interests include self-regulated musical learning and impacts of disability in music education. She also supports mentored undergraduate and graduate student research. Her music education students have completed fifty-plus guided research projects since 2015 on topics including: teaching students with special needs in the music classroom, music program advocacy, trauma-informed and culturally-responsive teaching strategies, and the roles of women composers and conductors.

Holmes-Davis’s teaching duties include undergraduate foundational courses in music education and specialized courses in elementary and middle school music pedagogy. She teaches graduate courses in curriculum, research, and community and philosophical music perspectives. She is also the founder and executive director of the Center for Music Education (CME) at Georgia College, which functions as a public outreach arm of the music education area. The CME@ GC was designed to promote collaboration and mutual achievement through departmental and community-based interaction. Toward that end, the CME@GC delivers eight to twelve professional development workshops for preservice and in-service music teachers annually and supports several community-based music endeavors within the music department, such as BASF Bobcat keys and a Suzuki-style strings initiative at the Baldwin County Early Learning Center.

Holmes-Davis is a stroke survivor and plays a one-handed clarinet. She performed on the one-handed clarinet at Carnegie Hall with the Tara Winds Clarinet Choir in June 2022. She is neither the first disabled musician to perform at Carnegie, nor the first clarinetist, but her June 2022 performance marks the first performance of the one-handed clarinet in a world-class venue. Holmes-Davis also regularly performs using the onehanded clarinet with the Georgia College Wind Symphony and the Wellston Winds Adult Community Band in Warner Robins, Georgia.

Prior to her appointment at Georgia College, Holmes-Davis taught middle school band in the Clayton County Public Schools (2002–2008), elementary music in Rockdale County (2008–2010), and middle school band in Henry County (2010–2015). She earned Bachelor of music and music education degrees from Georgia College and State University (2000), a Master of Education degree in music education from Auburn University (2002), and a Doctor of Musical Arts in music education degree from Boston University (2015).

Holmes-Davis currently lives in Warner Robins, GA, with her adoring husband, Jay Davis. Her children, affectionately nicknamed The Wonder Twins, completed their first year of college in 2023–24.