Rebecca McGuire
Macomb, IL *****
Email: ***********@*****.***
Phone: 217-***-****
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, TX.
Master of Music, Oboe Performance
(GPA 3.57), 2011-2013
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Macomb, IL.
Bachelor of Music, Oboe Performance (GPA 3.75), 2007-2011
WORK HISTORY
COFAC RECITAL HALL
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL.
Stage Crew Manager Sept. 2008-May 2011
INSTRUMENT ROOM
University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Room Reservations and Instrument Manager Aug. 2012 – Jan. 2013
MUSIC INSTRUCTOR,
Macomb, IL and Austin, TX.
Private Oboe Lessons, ages 12-20 2008-Present
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QUALIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Strong and consistent background in fields requiring:
- Excellent communication skills
- Customer service
- Time and Multi-task Management
- Quick and decisive thinking
- Independent reliability
- An amiable and easy-to-work-with personality
• Previous professional responsibilities:
Stage Crew Manager:
- Opening and locking up of a University building unsupervised,
- Working with and sustaining expensive University equipment,
- Communicating efficiently with guest artists and audience members,
- Managing stage and backstage areas simultaneously during performances,
requiring constant focus and attention to not only the performing artists,
but also the previously planned details (stage entrances, lights, etc.) and
often making or following impromptu decisions based on needs of
performers/audience.
Room Schedules and Instrument Manager:
- Reading, scheduling, and confirming student and faculty requests to reserve
any classroom in the University of Texas School of Music building (6 floors,
30+ classrooms, between 15 and 60 reservation requests daily).
- Responsible for the extremely organized and vigilant checkout and safe return
of all University of Texas instruments to students and faculty. (The
financial value of these instruments is on the high side of hundreds of
thousands of dollars.)
Private Oboe Lessons:
- Creating and maintaining payment schedules with students and their parents,
- Scheduling and keeping appointed lesson times of multiple students,
- Providing progress reports and any additional help to students and their
parents outside of lessons in order to maintain a good and communicative
working relationship and establish myself as a reliable and amicable
person on whom they can rely.
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REFERENCES
Joanie Herbert Richard Hughey
COFAC Recital Hall Manager Director of Orchestral Activities
School of Music School of Music
Western Illinois University Western Illinois University
1 University Circle 214 Sallee Hall, 1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455 Macomb, IL 61455
**-*******@***.*** **-******@***.***
Rebecca Henderson Professor of Oboe
Professor of Oboe School of Music
Butler School of Music Western Illinois University
2406 Robert Dedman Dr. Studio D, Browne Hall
Austin, TX 78712-1555 1 University Circle
512-***-**** Macomb, IL 61455
**********@******.******.*** 309-***-****
**-*******@***.***
Michael Ericson
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