Melissa Mackey
Assistant Professor
216 OBF
mackey@siu.edu
618-453-5801
Dr. Melissa Mackey is originally from Fairfield, Connecticut. She began playing bassoon at the age of 14, after briefly studying flute and piano. Since then she has received a Diploma from Juilliard Pre-College Division, a Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music, and a Master of Music from Yale School of Music. Recently she completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California with minors in Tonal Analysis, Music History, and Early Music. Her major teachers include Stephen Maxym, former principal bassoonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Frank Morelli, member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Her chamber music coaches have included Ransom Wilson, Keith Wilson, David Krakauer, and Charles Russo. Her period instrument studies have been with Charlie Koster and James Tyler. She has performed with the Norwalk Symphony, Bermuda Philharmonic, Mladi Chamber Orchestra, Uncommon Time Woodwind Quintet, USC Early Music Ensemble, and the Albany (GA) Symphony. She has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Zipper Hall, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, and the U.S. Post Office in Hamden, Connecticut.
Dr. Mackey has attended the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and the Hot Springs Music Festival. She has performed in masterclasses for Chris Millard, Nancy Goeres, Harold Goltzer, Leonard Sharrow, Richard Svoboda and Steve Dibner. She spent six summers on the faculty of Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vermont. She has also served on the faculties of the Orange County High School of the Arts and Norwalk Youth Symphony. She is a founding member of Neoteric.
In Fall 2003 she joined the faculty of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Music History. In addition to her performances with various ensembles on and off campus, she also gives mid-concert lectures for the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, traveling, and vegetarian cooking..
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Courses
- MUS 033B: Woodwind Technique
- MUS 040D-540D: Applied Bassoon
- MUS 357B: Music History
- MUS 477: Romantic Music