Donations
Stephanie Carlson
Chair
Kelsey Maes
Susan Miranda
Javier Rodriguez
Zachary Selnick
Dr. Stephanie Carlson
Dr. Stephanie Carlson is a double reed specialist and Assistant Professor of Music at Murray State University. Previously, she served as Instructor of Oboe at Concordia College Moorhead. She has also served on the faculties of Minnesota State University Moorhead, the Atlanta Music Academy, the Encore! Music Camp, and the International Music Camp. As a chamber musician, she is currently oboist with the Larkspur Reed Trio (oboe, English horn, and clarinet), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to music education, community outreach, and the commissioning of new music. She has also performed for thousands of K-12 students with the Concordia Wind Quintet through the Minnesota Public Radio Class Notes Artists program. As an orchestral musician, Dr. Carlson served as second oboist and English hornist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony from 2014-2023 and has also performed with the Paducah Symphony, Jackson (TN) Symphony, Augusta Symphony, Charleston Symphony, and the GAMAC Chamber Orchestra, among others. She is a regular recitalist at conferences of the International Double Reed Society and has also performed or presented at conferences of the International Clarinet Association, the College Music Society National Conference, and the Music by Women Festival. She is deeply dedicated to championing new and rediscovered music by underrepresented composers, especially composers who happen to be women. Dr. Carlson holds degrees from the University of Georgia and the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.
Dr. Kelsey Maes
Dr. Kelsey Maes is an oboist, music educator, and higher education professional based in Arizona. She teaches oboe and music courses at Glendale Community College, and works as a Format and Curriculum Advisor in the Graduate College at Arizona State University.
As a chamber musician, Dr. Maes has performed with a wide variety of ensembles, ranging from reed quintet and oboe trios, to mixed instrument groups. She competed at the 2023 Coltman Chamber Music Competition and Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, being awarded as a semifinalist and quarterfinalist, respectively. She arranged and performed the first movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata for oboe, violin, viola, cello, and bass. She has performed with the ASU Chamber Winds, with an appearance at the 2022 College Band Directors National Association Regional Conference in Tacoma, WA.
Dr. Maes is also an active scholar. She presented at past IDRS Conferences, serves as the IDRS Social Media Content Coordinator, and has been published in The Double Reed. Her DMA abstract was selected via peer-review for publication in the Leonardo Graduate Abstracts database, which is an international and interdisciplinary database that showcases topics delving into the arts, sciences, and technology. She is also a member of the College Music Society and Society for Music Theory.
Dr. Maes holds a DMA, Music Theory Pedagogy Certificate, and MM from Arizona State University, along with a BM from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studied oboe with Martin Schuring and John Dee.
Dr. Susan Miranda
Dr. Susan Miranda is a Fox Products Performing Artist and Adjunct Professor of Oboe at Dordt University. A versatile performer, educator, and new music advocate, she has premiered over forty works for oboe in the last decade. Her artistry thrives in the chamber music setting, where she brings together creative collaborators to commission, perform, and share new works with audiences of all ages.
She is a founding member of several active ensembles, including Cassia & Colibri, Dúo León, Larkspur Reed Trio, and Reed⁵. With these groups, Dr. Miranda has appeared at leading international conferences such as the International Double Reed Society (IDRS), International Clarinet Association (ICA), North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA), the International Music by Women Conference, and the SHE Festival. In March 2025, Reed⁵-1 (oboe + bassoon) will travel to San José, Costa Rica, to perform at the International Duo Symposium, highlighting her commitment to global artistic exchange.
Her chamber projects often merge performance with education, such as BS Project’s musical story Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox Find the Blues, performed more than 100 times for students from preschool through college. Larkspur Reed Trio’s recent educational video project combined a new commission by Alejandra Odgers with Alexandra Alessandri’s children’s book Isabel and her Colores Go to School, freely shared with schools and libraries.
Dr. Miranda holds a DMA and MM from the University of Kansas, a BA in Communications from the University of Minnesota, and attended Interlochen Arts Academy as a high school senior.
Javier Rodriguez
Javier Rodriguez is the Associate Professor of Bassoon and Associate Director of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho. Prior to his position at the U of I, he taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Rodriguez has held numerous orchestral positions through out the United States including engagements with the Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Valdosta, and Walla Walla Symphonies, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Natchez Opera Festival Orchestra, and the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra. In the summer, Rodriguez teaches at the University of Idaho Summer Music Camp, and has previously taught at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the Vianden International Music Festival and School in Luxembourg, the LSU Honors Chamber Winds Camp, the FSU Summer Music Camps Double Reed Workshop, and has served as a Teaching Assistant at the Brevard Music Festival. Rodriguez holds a Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University, Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Louisiana State University, and has also studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Jeffrey Keesecker, William Ludwig and William Winstead.
Dr. Zachary Senick
Dr. Zachary Senick (Захар Сенюк) is a woodwind musician, musicologist and librarian originally from Saskatoon, Canada. He began his bassoon studies at age 16 and his principal teachers were Eric Hall, Stéphane Lévesque, and Marie Sellar. His primary focus as a performer and researcher is promoting Ukrainian chamber music and has 25 works dedicated to him by Ukrainian composers. He is the founder of the Ukrainian Chamber Music Encyclopedia and recently performed a recital “Ukrainian Bassoon & Piano Works” at the IDRS 2025 conference featuring the world premiere of a piece dedicated to him by Volodymyr Chernenko. During the summers of 2022-2024 his wind quintet recorded Ukrainian wind quartet and quintets, featuring the world premiere of two new works dedicated to their ensemble by Dmytro Demchenko and Tatiana Stankovych.
As a bassoonist he was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Orchestre de la Francophonie, and has subbed with orchestras such as The Canadian Opera Company. He has also performed on woodwinds in jazz orchestras and musicals. In 2022, he was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Ukraine Heritage-Spirit and Future grant and performed for the Governor General of Canada at Rideau Hall in June 2023. He has taught as a sessional course instructor at the University of Toronto. Senick is currently a music editor for Éditions Plamondon’s “Slava Ukraini Seres, a music librarian for Windsor Symphony Orchestra (in the past Canadian Music Centre & International Music Camp), an archivist for the Council of Canadian Bassoonists, and community outreach coordinator for Reed Supplies Canada. In his free time, Senick is an avid cook, and his favorite things to make are вареники (varenyky/perogies) and борщ (borsch).