Dr. Kelsey Maes currently serves as a Format and Curriculum Advisor in the Graduate College at Arizona State University, and teaches at Phoenix College and ASU’s downtown campus. Within IDRS, she is a member of the Chamber Music Committee. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts, Music Theory Pedagogy Certificate, and Master of Music from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois. She studied oboe with Martin Schuring and John Dee.
As an active freelance musician, she has performed with orchestras across the country along with competing at the 2023 Coltman and Fischoff national chamber music competitions. In July 2024, she presented her DMA research on alternative natural materials for oboe reeds at the IDRS Conference, and she is working on a series of articles based on this research to submit for publication in The Double Reed.