Tony Hartman is a musician, educator, and composer based in Middle Tennessee.

As a musician, Tony travels throughout North America as a multi-instrumentalist performing on steel pan, piano, drums, and percussion. He has toured with Grammy-winners, award-winning wedding bands, and lead groups of his own. 

As an educator, Tony has been recognized as a CMA Music Educator of Excellence, and is a two-time Teacher of the Year for Murfreesboro City Schools. He teaches K-6 general music, and is also director of Steel de Boro: a 4-6th grade steel pan program. He is an Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Middle Tennessee State University. He also taught beginning band and jazz band. He has presented workshops and sessions at Western Division Conference for Organization of American Kodály Educators, Tennessee Arts Academy, the Colorado Kodály Institute, the Colorado, Kentucky, Iowa, and Tennessee Music Education Conferences, Sierra Nevada Association of Kodály Educators (SNAKE) and the Middle Tennessee Association of Kodály Educators (MTAKE).

As a composer, Tony has compositions published through Row-Loff Productions, the premier publisher of percussion literature. Tony has also composed music for stage plays: The Tragedy of Sarah Klein (2010) and The Guardian (2012).

Tony continues to compose for his students, creating catchy cross-curricular content to tie in social studies and science content for learners with THINK TRACKS.