Bio:
Christine Carucci, Ph.D., holds a varied career as a music educator and performer. As a bassoonist, she has performed with regional orchestras and chamber groups across the globe, has performed at international festivals and conferences, and has recorded with Naxos and Centaur records. She has nearly twenty years experience teaching in higher education, including as Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at Eastern Kentucky University, where she taught for eleven years. In addition, she has held positions at University of Rhode Island, University of Minnesota at Morris, and St. Cloud State University. She currently serves an Artist Faculty of bassoon at Youngstown State University.
As a music researcher and writer, Dr. Carucci’s work has been published in the International Journal of Community Music, the Journal of the Interdisciplinary Society for Music and Medicine, the Kentucky Journal of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the School Band and Orchestra magazine. She is an advocate for community music across the lifespan, and was the founder and former director of the Lexington (KY) New Horizons Band. She has held positions teaching K-12 music in NY, MA, CA, and is currently an Orchestra Director in the Boardman Local School District. Dr. Carucci holds music degrees from Eastman School of Music (BM), University of Southern California (MM), and the University of Kentucky (Ph.D.).