Dr. Constance Grambling Lane is a native of Minden, LA, having learned her flute skills in the band program there at an early age. While in public school, she was first chair in the Louisiana All-State Band and Orchestra for three years. At the age of fourteen, she appeared as a guest soloist with the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her first flute teacher was Don Smith, principal flutist of the Shreveport Symphony. Dr. Lane herself served as principal flutist with the orchestra for two years before her graduation from Centenary College in Shreveport. The position was part of a full music scholarship that she was awarded to attend Centenary.

Her other primary teachers included Dr. Everett Timm, Dean of the School of Music at LSU, with whom she studied ten years. Dr. Timm also served as her major professor during her doctoral studies at LSU. She did additional study with internationally renowned French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal; Maurice Sharp, principal flutist with the Cleveland Orchestra; and Julius Baker, principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic.

In 1988 she was selected for the Award of Excellence in the Performing Arts, given by the USC Professional Women on Campus Organization, on the occasion of the Celebration of Accomplishments of Women at Carolina. She has also received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the South Carolina chapter of the Music Teachers National Association. Upon her retirement from USC, Dr. Lane received the Cantey Outstanding Faculty Award in the School of Music and retired in 2006 as Distinguished Professor Emeritus, after teaching at the University of South Carolina for thirty-six years.

Ten of her students have performed as soloists with the USC Orchestra, after winning Concerto-Aria awards at USC. Two of her college students, Michael Davis and Mary Boone, won the National MTNA Woodwind competition, and Wendy Cohen was the 1999 winner of the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition, and several other national flute competitions. Dr. Amy Tully, who received her DMA from USC, with Dr. Lane as her major professor, recently had her doctoral paper selected for publication by Verdung Verlag in Germany. Dr. Lane's former students, many of whom have also continued their careers in music teaching, have themselves taught and mentored students who are frequently selected for various all-state groups and public school honors.

During her tenure at USC, Dr. Lane commissioned several composers to write works that featured the flute as either a solo instrument, or it was featured prominently as a chamber instrument. She performed over 250 works for flute in her career. She always attempted to have at least one work She performed with the Faculty Woodwind Quintet and with the Baroque Trio for over thirty years. She performed as principal flutist with the South Carolina Philharmonic for more than fifteen years, and was featured as a solo and chamber performer with several other orchestras and chamber groups throughout the Southeast.

Dr. Lane retired from the School of Music in 2007.