Faculty and Staff
Kristy Meretta, Oboe
Department of Music & Dance
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734) 487-2255
kristy.meretta@emich.edu
Kristy Meretta, Professor of Oboe and Coordinator of EMU Music and Dance Events, earned a bachelors degree (with honors) and two masters degrees (education and oboe performance) from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Harry Sargous, Arno Mariotti and Florian Mueller. Her tenure in the Department of Music at Eastern Michigan University began in 1979, following six years in public school education, private oboe teaching and professional playing. Meretta's extensive performance credentials include principal oboe/English horn positions with the Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Plymouth, Flint and Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestras; she also performs regularly with The Eastern Winds, faculty wind quintet at EMU, and appears frequently as an oboe clinician or music festival adjudicator.
As Coordinator of EMU Music Events, Meretta schedules and promotes more than 100 events annually, oversees production of the Music Events Calendar, the department Display Board and Newsletter. In 1996, EMU acknowledged her leadership with a Faculty Appreciation Award for her two years as an EMU Foundation Trustee and Campus Head of a $2.3 million Pease Auditorium Renovation Campaign. Her professional affiliations include the International Double Reed Society, the American Federation of Musicians, the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and honorary fraternities, Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. An endowed scholarship for oboists, the Fitch/Meretta Scholarship, was awarded for the first time in the Fall 2004.
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