Ithaca College

Keri E. McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Oboe and Music History at Washington State University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and research at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand during the 2011-2012 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Dr. McCarthy will study relationships between Thai traditional and art musics; her project includes commissioning three new pieces for oboe duo from Thai composers Weerachat Premananda, AnoThai Nitibhon, and Siraseth Pantura-Umporn. Keri will perform the works in concert this summer with oboists from Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Dr. McCarthy will also be teaching oboe and American Music History at Chulalongkorn University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Thailand.

This Fulbright continues Dr. McCarthy’s research into musics of Southeast Asia. In 2008 Dr. McCarthy received a WSU New Faculty Seed Grant, which funded commissions for new works from four prominent Southeast-Asian composers, and performances of those works and masterclasses in Bangkok (Thailand), Hanoi (Vietnam), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Singapore. Keri graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Music Performance in 1997.