Timothy Feil

Tim has a variety of teaching experience, from teaching private oboe and piano lessons to teaching general music to large classes of general music. In addition to his performance degrees, Tim received a Concentration in Music-in-Education from New England Conservatory which included teaching internships and pedagogy classes. He has a broad range of teaching experience which include private oboe, piano, and saxophone lessons.

He has recently given guest classes about reed making at the Yale graduate School of Music; musical instrument manufacturing and history for Yale's Center for Engineering and Innovative Design department; and assisted with teaching guest classes for various Yale music history, forestry, and material culture classes, all about the history of musical instruments. In addition, he was piano faculty at The Conservatory for Music and Dance in Eagleville, PA and the woodwind instructor at the Siena Summer Session Music Festival in Siena, Italy in 2014. He was twice a teaching intern at MusicLaunch, an "innovative community-minded music education lab," where he taught weekly music classes to students in the greater Boston area. While a student at the New England Conservatory, he was a research assistant for the Center for Music-in-Education for a study on the benefits of arts education.

In addition to maintaing a small teaching studio and freelance performance career, Tim has sold oboe reeds through his own website for the past six years and also through Midwest Musical Imports.