Adjunct Instructor: Oboe
243 Performing Arts Center
anewfedele@yahoo.com / (320) 308-3270
Andrea Newhouse Fedele pursued her Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance with Marion Arthur Kuszyk at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, graduating in 1995. She received her Master of Music degree in 1997 from Indiana University in Bloomington where she studied with Marc Lifschey, and began to study the Alexander Technique with Jeff Tessler. Andrea then went to Urbana, IL. to pursue both a Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA) degree with Nancy Ambrose King, and an Alexander Technique teaching certificate.
In 2000, Andrea completed the three-year training course at the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique with teachers Joan and Alex Murray, and became a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003 with a DMA degree after completing her thesis entitled, "The Alexander Technique: A Basis for Oboe Performance and Teaching."
Andrea has played oboe and English horn in numerous orchestras, including the Indianapolis Symphony, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and the Kansas City Symphony. She has also participated in many music festivals such as the Banff Centre for the Arts, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz , Austria , the National Orchestral Institute, and the Sarasota Music Festival. Andrea is currently teaching oboe at St. Cloud State University, the College of Saint Benedict, the MacPhail Center for Music and maintains private oboe and Alexander Technique studios in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
