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Cynthia Cioffari

Part-Time Faculty
Office: Battelle 114
Contact: Conni Birri at cbirri@otterbein.edu or 614-823-1508

Teaching areas: Applied Bassoon

Cynthia is contrabassoonist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and bassoonist with the Wintergreen (VA) Summer Music Festival Orchestra and the Winds of Wintergreen (WOW). She has also performed with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Columbus Light Opera and Broadway Across America.

Cynthia is currently professor of bassoon at Capital University and Otterbein College and has previously taught at the University of Alabama, Heidelberg College and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.

She has appeared as a soloist or ensemble member at the International Double Reed Society Convention, National Flute Association Convention, International Clarinet Association Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, and most recently at the International Horn Symposium in Cape Town, South Africa.

In 1983, she was a finalist in the International Double Reed Society's Gillet Young Artist Competition held in Tallahassee, Florida.

Cynthia holds a Bachelor's degree in music performance from Bowling Green State University and a Master's degree in woodwinds from the University of Michigan. Her teachers have included L. Hugh Cooper, Robert J. Moore, and Russell Hinkle.