N. Carlotta Parr is currently an Associate Professor of Music Education at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut. In addition to teaching methods courses for undergraduate music majors and working with student teachers, she conducts the CCSU Chorale. She also teaches core courses for the Masters of Science in Music Education degree program.

Prior to her move to Connecticut, she served as the Fine Arts Consultant for the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE), Center for Program Development (1990-98). During her tenure with the IDOE she was responsible for coordinating curriculum and program development in music, visual arts, theatre arts, and dance/creative movement. In addition to these responsibilities, she was responsible for the development of student assessment in the arts. She was actively involved in the Indiana Music Educators Association, and has served as a guest conductor for Circle the State with Song (elementary and middle school choirs) for the past eight years.

Dr. Parr was a public school music teacher (K-12) for 18 years for the Arlington County Public Schools, in Arlington, Virginia. During her tenure there she taught general music at all levels, choral music and guitar on the secondary level, and served as the Music Department Chairman at Washington-Lee High School for eight years. She was actively involved in the Virginia Music Educators Association on the local and state levels, and was a guest conductor for all-county elementary, middle school, and high school choirs in Arlington, Virginia.

A native of Virginia, Dr. Parr received her Bachelors of Music Education from James Madison University, her Masters of Music from the Catholic University of America, and her Doctor of Music Education at Indiana University. During her two-year residency at Indiana University she was an Assistant Instructor, teaching music methods to elementary education majors, and assisted Dr. Mary Goetze with the University Children's Choir.