French completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees at Arizona State University and holds degrees in Music Education, Music Technology, and Performance from Duquesne University.

She is a faculty associate at Arizona State University, Phoenix College, and Paradise Valley Community College, and has taught at Northern Arizona Curry Music Camp, and Interlochen Horn Institute. She has taught for the past 9 nine years at Rosie's House: A Music Academy for Children, a non-profit music academy that provides free instruction and instruments to under-served youth. Her students participate in Regional and All-State Band and Orchestra, local youth orchestras and summer festivals. They have been awarded competition scholarships and music scholarships to universities including Arizona State University, University of Denver, and Brigham Young University. Her students range in age from fourth grade to well into retirement!

Rose Marie French has a very exciting and diverse career as a professional musician and educator. She performs with groups in the Southwest including the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, Tucson Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony, Symphony of the West Valley, Orquestra Sinfonica de Monterrey, Orquestra de Baja California and has toured China twice as principal horn of the American Festival Orchestra. An active chamber musician, she is the Director of the Mill Ave Chamber Players, a professional woodwind chamber ensemble, Managing Director of the Pangean Orchestra, and member of the Phoenix Chamber Brass. French has been a contributing artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan and the International Horn Symposiums in Brisbane, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa, where she also the won the Dorothy Frizelle International Horn Excerpt Competition. In 2012, she hosted the Southwest Horn Conference, where she performed with Swiss Hornist Bruno Schneider.

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