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  Cynthia Carr Assistant Professor of Music Performance View e-mail address | Log in to view e-mail w/your BSU Username MI 207 (765) 285-5430 Fax: 285-5401 School of Music Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 Add Contact Info to Outlook Biography Cynthia Carr is Assistant Professor of Horn at Ball State University for the 2009-2010 school year. She has held faculty positions at Lawrence University and the University of Delaware, where she was a tenured full professor prior to moving to Muncie in 2006. Ms. Carr has also served as a visiting professor recently at Butler University and the University of Dayton. Cynthia Carr holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Verne Reynolds, and Florida State University, where her major teacher was William Capps. She also studied for a year in Oslo, Norway with Froydis Ree Wekre as an ITT International Fellow. Ms. Carr has performed as a member of the Florida Philharmonic and the Delaware Symphony, and has served as Principal Horn with the Kalmazoo Symphony, Hofer Symphoniker (Hof, Germany), OperaDelaware Orchestra, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, and Utah Opera Festival Orchestra. She has performed as a substitute or extra player with many additional orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Norwegian National Broadcasting Orchestra, and the Symphonies of Honolulu, Indianapolis, Memphis, Milwaukee, Savannah, and Toledo. For twelve seasons, she was second horn with the Opera Company of Philadelphia orchestra, performing in more than forty different opera productions and in live television and radio broadcasts. An active chamber musician, Cynthia Carr is a founding member of Trio Arundel with her husband - oboist Timothy Clinch - and pianist Julie Nishimura. The ensemble has performed widely in the United States in recital and at many national conferences; they also traveled to Watford, England in 2004 to perform as representatives of the Wilmington, Delaware Sister Cities program. Ms. Carr has performed chamber music with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra at festivals such as the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival, Delaware Chamber Music Festival, and the Brevard Music Center. She performed as a guest with the Chestnut Brass Company on their CD Hornsmoke: Music of Peter Schickele, which received the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. Ms. Carr has also recorded with the Del’Arte Wind Quintet, Rekkenze Brass Quintet, and with pianist Julie Nishimura the CD Images: Music for Horn and Piano by Women Composers. During her years at the University of Delaware, Cynthia Carr was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award, received two General University Research grants, and was selected for a Solo Recitalist Grant from the Delaware State Arts Council. Ms. Carr is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Horn Competition of America, and has been an Associate Regent for the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. She has published articles and reviews in Horn Call, Double Reed Journal, Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music, and the Journal of the International Women’s Brass Conference. Ms. Carr’s arrangements of music for horn ensemble; two horn and piano; and oboe, horn, and piano trio are published by Arundel Music and R.M. Williams Publishing, and have been performed in the U.S. and abroad. |
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