Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Western University PhD in Music Theory Doctoral Candidate as of August 2018 • Entered program with Advanced Standing due to doctoral level music theory courses previously taken at Indiana University • Graduate Research Scholarship • Teaching Assistant for Studies in Music Theory I and II (See Teaching Experience for details.) • Graduate courses in Set Theory and Transformational Analysis
Indiana University Doctor of Music in Bassoon Performance December 2017 • Bassoon studies with Professor William Ludwig and Professor Kathleen McLean • Minor in Music Theory • Taught as Associate Instructor in the Music Theory Department for six semesters while completing doctoral course work (See Teaching Experience for details.) • Piano lessons with Professor Reiko Neriki • Master’s and doctoral courses in College Music Teaching, Music Theory Pedagogy, Woodwind Literature, Schenkerian Analysis, Rhythm and Meter, History of Music Theory, Readings in Music Theory, Mozart Operas
University of British Columbia Master of Arts in Music Theory August 2010 • Master’s thesis entitled: “Using single-line instruments as a means of reinforcing concepts of harmony: a discussion of exercises for use in individual and group settings” • Composition lessons with Dr. Stephen Chatman • Bassoon lessons with Professor Jesse Read and Professor Julia Lockhart • Graduate courses in Schenkerian Analysis, Post-tonal Analysis, Classical Form, Analysis of Late Romantic Works, Brahms Chamber Music
Ithaca College Master of Music in Bassoon Performance June 2009 • Bassoon studies with Professor Lee Goodhew Romm • Piano lessons with Professor Phiroze Mehta • Composition lessons with Dr. Sally Lamb • Graduate courses in Analytical Techniques, Orchestration, Composition in the Schools
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario Diploma in Chamber Music June 2007 • Bassoon studies with Professor Nadina Mackie Jackson • Composition lessons with Professor Linda Catlin Smith • Attended on full scholarship
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca
University of Toronto Bachelor of Music with Honours, Theory Concentration May 2005 • Bassoon studies with Nadina Mackie Jackson • Baroque recorder studies with Alison Melville
The Royal Conservatory of Music ARCT Theory & History (formerly Grade 5 Theory) October 2009 Grade 10 Piano October 2004
Teaching Experience
Western University
Assistant Professor of Bassoon September 2019 to present • Duties include teaching private bassoon lessons, leading master classes, and attending faculty meetings • Created syllabus, master class schedule, studio web page, promotional materials • Assisted with organizing recruitment concerts • In the process of organizing a Woodwind Day for Fall 2020 • 3 students
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Jazz Winter 2020 • Graded assignments and exams, approx. 90 students
Teaching Assistant for Studies in Music Theory V Fall 2019 • Post-tonal theory course offered as upper-level music elective, 24 students • Graded assignments and exams • Planned and taught select lectures
Teaching Assistant for Studies in Music Theory I and II 2017 to 2019 • First-year music theory courses for music majors, approximately 130 students • Led one tutorial section (20-30 students) • Created tutorial lesson plans and slides • Graded assignments, quizzes, and exams • Held weekly office hours for students • Created mock midtem and final exams • Led exam review sessions open to students from all tutorial sections • Planned and led lecture when course instructor-of-record was out of town
Wilfrid Laurier University
Instructor for MU395/495 – Winds and Brass Orchestral Repertoire 2016 to 2017 • Coached woodwind and brass students on one major orchestral work per session
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca • One of eight instructors, taught 3 of the 24 weekly sessions • Selected excerpts for the bassoonists for their two end-of-semester mock auditions
University of Guelph
Instructor for MUSC*2180 Musicianship II Fall 2016 • Combined aural and written theory class for second-year music majors • 10 students, two 1.3-hour lectures per week, 12 weeks • Created and graded weekly assignments and unit tests • Held weekly office hours for students
Indiana University
Associate Instructor for MUS T351 - Music Theory and Literature V Spring 2013 • Post-tonal theory and analysis class • 28 students, three 1.25-hour class meetings per week, 15 weeks • Taught one lecture per week under the supervision of Professor Eric Isaacson • Graded all assignments and exams • Held weekly office hours for students
Chamber Music Coach 2012 to 2013 • Coached an undergraduate woodwind quintet nine times per semester • Repertoire included Jacques Ibert’s Trois Pièces Brèves, Eric Ewazen’s Cumberland Suite, and Layne Anspach’s Tumbleweed • Coached a graduate trio (flute, bassoon, piano) five times on Beethoven’s Trio, WoO 37
Associate Instructor/Coordinating Instructor for MUS T232 - Musical Skills III Fall 2012 • Third course in a four-semester undergraduate aural skills sequence • 17 students, four meetings per week (two 50-minute lectures and two 50-minute drills) • Led two aural skills sections twice a week (6 and 11 students in each section) • Appointed Lecturer/Coordinating Instructor (in addition to Associate Instructor) for final four weeks of the semester • Graded all exams, assignments, and sight singing and keyboard hearings • Evaluated sight singing and keyboard hearings for students attempting to exempt out of course • Held weekly office hours for students
Associate Instructor for MUS T152 - Music Theory and Literature II (Honors Drill) Spring 2012 • Second course in a five-semester undergraduate written theory sequence • Five meetings per week (three 50-minute lectures and two 50-minute drills) • Led two honors drill sections (24 students total; 9 and 15 in each section) • Graded all exams and assignments • Held weekly office hours for students
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca
Associate Instructor for MUS T151 - Music Theory and Literature I Fall 2011 • First course in a five-semester undergraduate written theory sequence • Five meetings per week (three 50-minute lectures and two 50-minute drills) • Led two drill sections (26 students total; 11 and 15 in each section) • Graded all exams and assignments • Held weekly office hours for students
Associate Instructor for MUS T252 - Music Theory and Literature IV Spring 2011 • Fourth course in a five-semester undergraduate written theory sequence • Five meetings per week (three 50-minute lectures and two 50-minute drills) • Led two drill sections (29 students total; 16 and 13 in each section) • Graded all exams and assignments • Held weekly office hours for students
Associate Instructor for MUS T251 - Music Theory and Literature III Fall 2010 • Third course in a five-semester undergraduate written theory sequence • Five meetings per week (three 50-minute lectures and two 50-minute drills) • Led two drill sections (26 students total; 16 and 10 in each section) • Graded all exams and assignments • Held weekly office hours for students
University of British Columbia
Instructor for Music 106 Musicianship Spring 2010 • Second course in a four-semester undergraduate aural skills sequence • Taught six 50-minute classes once a week (38 students total; 5-8 in each section) • Created weekly lesson plans
Instructor for Bassoon Methods Spring 2008 • Taught half-semester-long portion of Double Reed Methods course • Taught two groups twice a week for 50 minutes • Created course materials, including the syllabus, weekly lesson plans, handouts, and exams
Ithaca College
Instructor for PSFM 12700 Class Bassoon 2008 to 2009 • Taught six sections once a week for 50 minutes (3-8 students in each section) • Created course materials, including the syllabus, weekly lesson plans, handouts, and exams
Other
Co-Director of Summer Double Reed Workshop, London, Ontario 2015 to 2019 Piano Accompanist for Vocal Ensembles at Bobcaygeon Music Camp 2017 to 2019 Co-Director and Instructor at Tumble Reeds Music Studio, London, Ontario 2014 to 2019 Guest Master Class Clinician, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC October 2016
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca Private bassoon, piano, and harmony teacher; various cities 2003 to 2019 Guest Artist for Woodwind Quintet Residency, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio February 2015 Guest Master Class Clinician, Western University, London, Ontario January 2015 Co-director of the Marentette Minstrels Children’s Choir, Windsor, Ontario 2013 to 2014 Bassoon coach at McNair Secondary School band retreat, Whistler, BC October 2009
Performance Experience
Orchestral
Professional Orchestras London Symphonia 56 services 2017 to 2020 Windsor Symphony Orchestra 272 services 2009 to 2020 Musicians of Orchestra London 25 services 2014 to 2016 Niagara Symphony Orchestra 84 services 2005 to 2016 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 17 services 2007 to 2010 Toronto Chamber Orchestra Naxos recording July 2008 Opera Ontario La Bohème, complete run Spring 2007 Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony 15 services 2006 to 2007
Chamber
Take Me to the Cabaret London Symphonia October 2019 • Bohuslav Martinu’s La Revue de Cuisine and Kurt Weill’s Music from The Threepenny Opera and September Song
Reed Minders Duo Summer Sounds @Barrington, Halifax, NS August 2019 • John Steinmetz’s Songs and Dances, Georg Philipp Telemann’s Sonata in F minor for bassoon and continuo, Vernon Elliott’s The Penguins, John Steinmetz’s Love Song
Western University Faculty Concert Series January 2017 • Antonin Dvorak’s Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op. 44, and Darius Milhaud’s La Création du monde
University of Windsor School of Creative Arts Category 5 Woodwind Quintet March 2016 • Quintet No. 2 (2005), David Maslanka
Western University Faculty Concert Series Category 5 Woodwind Quintet January 2016 • Quintet No. 2 (2005), David Maslanka
Outreach Concerts Windsor Symphony Orchestra 2015-2016 Season • Performed as a woodwind quintet with the principal players of the Windsor Symphony in over a dozen outreach concerts for elementary and high school students, preschool-aged children, and the general public.
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca
Intimate Classics Windsor Symphony Orchestra October 2015 • Franz Schubert’s Octet, D. 803
Western University Faculty Concert Series September 2015 • Bohuslav Martinu’s La Revue de Cuisine (1927) and Francis Poulenc’s Le Bal Masqué (1932)
Reed Minders Duo Summer Sounds @Barrington, Halifax, NS August 2015 • Sonata Abassoonata, P.D.Q. Bach; Duo No. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven; Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191, W.A. Mozart; Three Romances, No. 2, Robert Schumann (piano part); World premiere of bassoon plus step-dancing routine
Springbank Gardens Summer Concert Series Forked River Quintet July 2015 • Summer Music, Op. 31 (1953), Samuel Barber; Sextet in E-flat major, Op. 71, Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Albert Andraud; Trois Pièces Brèves (1930), Jacques Ibert; Chums! (2004), Karl Jenkins, Six Bagatelles (1953), György Ligeti
Lillian Plays Mozart Windsor Symphony Orchestra May 2015 • Walter Piston’s Divertimento for Nine Instruments (1946)
Guelph Connections Concert Series Category 5 Woodwind Quintet April 2015 • Caprice (1997), Jeff Smallman; Quintet (1972), John Weinzweig; Quintet No. 2 (2005), David Maslanka; “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” from Children’s Corner Suite, Claude Debussy, arr. J. Linckelmann
Intimate Beethoven Windsor Symphony Orchestra September 2014 • Ludwig van Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20, and Louis Spohr’s Grand Nonet in F major, Op. 31
International Double Reed Society Conference Miami University, Oxford, OH July 2012 • Guest Artist for performance of my composition Canine Miniatures (2007), a theatrical work for oboe and bassoon • Performed with Roger Roe, associate professor of oboe at Indiana University and associate principal oboe/English horn in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition Notre Dame, Indiana May 2011 • Quarter-finalist as a member of Trio Pistachio (oboe, clarinet, bassoon) • Performed selections from the following repertoire in the live round: Trio in C minor, Op. 9, no. 3, Ludwig van Beethoven; Trio in D minor, François Devienne; Cinq Pièces en Trio, Jacques Ibert; Bucolique varié, Paul Pierné; Suite pour trio d’anches, Alexandre Tansman
Research
PhD Dissertation (Music Theory), Western University In progress Analytical and Conceptual Challenges that Arise When the Melody is in the Lowest Sounding Voice
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca
Doctor of Music Final Project (Bassoon Performance), Indiana University December 2017 Silver Angel and Apollo X: A Glimpse into Nadina Mackie Jackson’s Canadian Bassoon Concerto Project • There are two components to this project: a video documentary and a paper. • The documentary introduces Nadina Jackson’s career as a solo bassoonist and follows preparations for the premieres of Silver Angel and Apollo X. • The paper focuses on Nadina Mackie Jackson’s career as a solo bassoonist and Paul Frehner’s Apollo X.
Master’s Thesis (Music Theory), University of British Columbia August 2010 Using Single-Line Instruments as a Means of Reinforcing Harmony Concepts: A Discussion of Exercises for Use in Group and Individual Settings • This thesis discusses and presents newly composed and adapted exercises that can be performed on single-line instruments.
Professional Development
Teacher Mentor Program at Western University Fall 2019 • Observed three colleagues teach a 50-minute class • Provided verbal and written feedback for each teacher • Taught a 50-minute class while my colleagues observed me • Received verbal and written feedback from my colleagues
Teaching Workshops at Western University Active Learning: What You Can Do and Why it Will Work May 2019 Prepare to Be Active: Managing Student Expectations for Active Learning May 2019 Implementing Active Learning and Modelling Study Strategies in Tutorials May 2019 Active Learning in a Lecture-based Math Course May 2019 Immersive, Collaborative Learning in the Science Classroom May 2019 Teaching Excellence: Case Studies on Teaching May 2019 How to Care For and Use Your Teaching Voice March 2019 Walk with Your Students: Articulating Unspoken Norms in the Classroom June 2018 Assessing Student Learning June 2018
Orchestral Training Programs L’orchestre de la francophonie canadienne, Montreal, Quebec Summer 2013 Ø Six-week-long paid orchestral program for emerging professional musicians National Academy Orchestra of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario Summer 2005 and 2008; Fall 2005 Ø Sixteen-week-long paid orchestral and chamber music training program
Scholarships and Awards
Graduate Research Award, Western University 2017 to 2020 Full tuition scholarship, Master Classes for Strings and Winds, The Banff Centre July 2014
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Margaret P. Fay, Doctor of Music 101 Walnut Street, London, ON N6H 1C3 [email protected] 226-224-8377 www.margaretpfay.ca Wennerstrom Music Theory Associate Instructor Fellowship, honorable mention April 2013 Associate Instructorship, Indiana University 2010 to 2013 Teaching Assistantship, University of British Columbia 2009 to 2010 Research Assistantship, University of British Columbia 2009 to 2010 Graduate Assistantship , Ithaca College 2008 to 2009 Graduate Entrance Scholarship, University of British Columbia 2007 to 2008 Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition February 2007 Ø Second place Ken Murray Concerto Competition, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony March 2007 Ø Second place Full tuition scholarship, Wilfrid Laurier University 2006 to 2007 Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarships 2003 to 2005
Compositions
Bassoon Quartet (in progress, two movements complete) 2019 Jib Jib’s Dreams, oboe, clarinet, bassoon 2015 Fantasia alla Dragon, bassoon and piano 2014 Quintet Tuning Etudes, woodwind quintet 2013 Duo Etudes¸oboe and bassoon 2009 Ø A set of eight etudes, each with a different technical focus The Jabberwocky, tenor, three bassoons, and piano 2009 Ø A tenor sings excerpts from Lewis Carroll’s “The Jabberwocky” while a trio of linked bassoonists romp around the stage ‘Til Death Do Us Part, woodwind quintet 2008 Ø Theatrical work that begins with the musicians lying on the stage Vox Diabolica, solo violin 2008 Ø A sinister work for solo violin that requires the performer to sing while playing the violin Distant Voices, six bassoons 2007 Ø A “surround-sound” work for bassoon ensemble Canine Miniatures, oboe and bassoon 2007 Ø A theatrical duo in which the two instrumentalists play the roles of a dog and its owner
Service
Music Theory Midwest Annual Conference, Student Volunteer 2018 Western University Graduate Symposium on Music, Program Committee 2017 Indiana University Graduate Theory Association, Secretary 2012 to 2013 Indiana University Graduate Theory Symposium, Registration and Set-Up 2010 to 2013 Indiana University Graduate Theory Symposium, Program Committee 2011
Professional Societies
American Federation of Musicians (Local 566) College Music Society International Double Reed Society
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