Andrea Kemper Quinn has been the Director of the Orchestra, Piano & IB Music at James Island Charter High School since 2007. The Piano program was established in 2008 and in fifteen years has grown to be the largest, most successful non-magnet Piano program in the tri-county area with two hundred students of all levels enrolled in the program. The Orchestra Program most recently received straight Superior ratings at the 2018-2021 SC State Music Performance Assessment. She spent 9 years teaching Chorus at JICHS from 2007-2017 and saw enrollment more than triple under her direction. Her Piano and Strings students perform regularly in and around the community. Quinn was Co-Chair of the Leadership Team for the 2017-18 school year and Fine Arts Chair for JICHS from 2015-2018. She is currently the Performing Arts Chair since 2018. She has been a finalist several times for Teacher of the Year at JICHS. Quinn formed H.o.P.e., the Hispanic Organization Promoting Education in 2021 to support the 6% Hispanic and Latinx population at JICHS, enjoys serving on the Equity and Access Committee, and is Prom Board Chair since 2014. In 2019, Quinn had the honor of leading a small committee of Leadership Team members that revised our JICHS charter document which was finally approved by our Leadership Team, JICHS Charter Board, and the Charleston County School District Board of Directors. It is her work on that committee that sparked an interest in serving as Secretary of the JICHS Governing Board of Directors beginning in the Fall of 2021 until now.

A native of Miami, Florida, Quinn is currently studying at the University of New England to attain an Administration Certificate and an Ed. D in Education Administration. She has her Master's Degree in Music Education from the University of South Carolina with an emphasis on String Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education with a double-principal in piano and cello from the University of Miami.

Quinn is currently the Past & Future President of the SCMEA Piano Division and is active in the SCMEA Orchestra division as well. Quinn appears as a featured solo cellist throughout the Charleston area in a multitude of settings and is known for her classical-style playing as well as her ability to improvise in a less standard setting. She is the resident solo cellist for James Island Presbyterian Church, and the Cathedral of St. Luke & St. Paul, and most recently was a featured cello soloist for the 2018 SC ACDA SSA choir, and at the Montreat Music & Worship Conference in 2016, 2019, and 2021 in an array of settings. Quinn has been the Site Host of the 2021 SCMEA Region Orchestra, Guest Conductor for the Beaufort and Berkeley All-County Middle School Orchestras as well as selected as the Large Cello Choir clinician for the SC Cello Choir events held at USC in 2017, and at The College of Charleston in 2013. Quinn has served as an adjudicator at several orchestra festivals in the tri-county area as well.