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Timothy Clinch joined the Ball State faculty in the fall of 2005 as Assistant Professor of Oboe Performance and oboist of the Musical Arts Quintet. For the remainder of the 2008-09 season, he also is serving as Acting Assistant Principal Oboe and English Horn of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, Music Director. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the John Mack Oboe Camp, and is the oboe coordinator of the International Double Reed Society Young Artist Competition. Along with Ball State Professor of Bassoon Keith Sweger, he co-hosted the Thirty-Third Conference of the International Double Reed Society, held at the School of Music July 25-29, 2006.

A native of Montana, Mr. Clinch began his oboe studies with George Riordan at the University of Montana. He received the Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, with Distinction in Performance, from Lawrence University; the Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he was graduate assistant to Ray Still, solo oboe emeritus of the Chicago Symphony; and the Master of Fine Arts and Performer's Certificate from the Institute of Chamber Music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. From 1989 through 2005, he studied with the late John Mack, solo oboe emeritus of the Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Clinch was the recipient of the Delaware Division of the Arts 1993 Individual Artist Fellowship and the 2003 Master Artist Fellowship.

Mr. Clinch has previously performed as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Toledo, South Dakota, Delaware, and Harrisburg Symphonies, as an extra musician with the Milwaukee Symphony and Milwaukee Ballet, and as guest principal oboist with the Vancouver (BC) Symphony, the Utah Festival Opera Company, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. He is a member of Trio Arundel, along with his wife, hornist Cynthia Carr, and pianist Julie Nishimura; the trio has performed at the 2003 International Double Reed Society Conference, the 2001 International Horn Society Conference, the 1999 MTNA National Conference, and the 1997 NACWAPI Conference, in addition to recitals at the San Francisco Conservatory, Miami University of Ohio, University of Georgia at Athens, Emory and Henry College, Brevard College, St. Croix (USVI) Landmark Society, and in Watford, England. Previously, he has performed with the Ambrosian Winds, finalists in the 1985 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and toured throughout the midwest with the Dakota Wind Quintet, performing in recitals, master classes, and broadcasts over WFMT-Chicago and National Public Radio stations in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. He also enjoys performing on Baroque and Classical oboes, and has performed with the period instrument groups Brandywine Baroque and Mélomanie.

A former faculty member of the Brevard Music Center and Lawrence University, he also served as adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware, Bucknell University, Augustana College, and Susquehanna University, and as a member of the Wilmington Music School faculty, where he taught oboe, music theory and chamber music, and conducted the Delaware Youth Orchestra and Delaware Youth Symphony.