resume · tiffany ng

EDUCATION
  2006 - 2008

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
Master of Music, Organ Performance & Literature (expected 2008)
Arts Leadership Program Certificate (expected 2008)
  2005 - 2006

Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn," Mechelen, Belgium
Royal Flemish Conservatory, Antwerp, Belgium

Artist's Certificate (magna cum laude), Carillon
  2001 - 2005 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
B.A., English and Music
  2000 - 2001 San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Preparatory Division - Piano
EMPLOYMENT
  2007 - present Women in Music Festival
Assistant to the Director
  • Helping with all organizational and planning aspects of the annual Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music while receiving credit towards completion of the Arts Leadership Certificate.
  summer 2007 Roosevelt Academy Summer School
Assistant Teacher and Event Coordinator
  • Organized field trips and recitals and taught private carillon lessons for the course "Carillon Culture in the Netherlands and Flanders: Tradition and Innovation." Also provided desktop publishing, graphic design, photography, translation, and copyediting support. Funded by a Special Opportunity Grant from the Arts Leadership Program.
  2006 - present Eastman Computer Music Center (ECMC)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Teaching undergraduate and graduate students in individual sessions for CMP 225: Introduction to Computer Music.
  • Helped organize, promote, and run the ECMC 25th Anniversary Concert Series, also doing related web and publications design.
  2005 - 2006 Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments
Campanology Exhibit Designer
  • Curated an ethnomusicological exhibition of bells and rare campanology books that opened in conjunction with the 2006 Congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America.
  • Published a digitized 366-page catalog of the Carillon Museum of the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" (Mechelen, Belgium) with high-resolution digital photos, which earned the first perfect thesis score in the school's history.
  2003 - present North America and Europe
Concert Carillonneur & Church Organist
  • Featured performer in concert series at thirteen venues in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France (2006-2007), and at the University of Rochester (NY), Yale, Princeton, the Riverside Church (NY), Washington Memorial Chapel (PA), Longwood Gardens (PA), Berea College (KY), Trinity College (CT), Albany City Hall (NY), First Church of Christ Cong. (CT), First Presbyterian Church (CT), Cathedral of St. John the Divine (WA), and UC Berkeley.
  • Organized and publicized an international summer concert series as Summer Carillonneur of Yale University (2003)
  • Guest organist for the Church of the Epiphany (NY), Norfield Congregational Church (CT), St. Joseph of Arimathea (CA), and Yale Opera.
  2001 - 2006 EssayEdge.com
Freelance Editor
  • Guided clients in revising college and scholarship application essays.
  summer 2005 Yale University Press
Publicity / Web Design Intern
  summer 2003 - present Off the Map Press, New Haven, CT
Webmaster, Business Development Intern
  summer 2003 Ulysses S. Grant Foundation, New Haven, CT
Investigations Teacher
  • Taught math, science, web design / programming, and model rocket building to talented, underprivileged New Haven middle school students.
  2001 - 2005 Yale University Sterling Memorial Library
Student Assistant IV
  summer 2001 & 2002 University of California, San Francisco
Research Assistant I
  • Investigated proteins in Bartonella quintana and analyzed resulting Western blots for publication.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
   Ring Out Over Rochester! - Campaign leader to revive the Hopeman Memorial Carillon at the University of Rochester.
 World Carillon Federation (WCF) - News correspondent (2006 - present).
 Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) - Active on Website and Brochure Committees (2004 - present), regular contributor to Carillon News. Passed professional examinations for Carillonneur Member status (2005).
 Created an English version of the Royal Carillon School website for prospective foreign students and visitors.
 Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs - Co-Chair (2004-2005), Tour Manager & Social Chair (2003-2004), Summer Carillonneur (2003, 2005), Webmaster (2002-2004), Lessons/Auditions Coordinator & Tower Keeper (2002-2003). Organized tours of North America and Europe; directed carillon and tower renovations.
 Yale College Vegetarian Society - Vice-President & Webmaster (2003-2005), President (2002-2003)
 Society Electronica - President (2004-2005), Core Team (2002-2004)
 Special Needs Awareness & Peer Services - Webmaster (2003-2005)
 Yale Tae Kwon Do - Webmaster (2003-2005).
 Elm City Cycling - Undergraduate bicycle advocacy liaison (2003-2005)
 City-Wide Open Studios and artSPACE volunteer (2003-2004)
 Summer Science Program - Class of 2000 Webmaster (2000 - present)
AWARDS & HONORS
   Eastman School of Music Graduate Award (2006-2008)
 Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship (2005-2006)
 Mifflin Prize for outstanding work in English at Yale (2004-2005)
 Mellon Forum Grant for senior essay research (2004)
 Richard U. Light Scholarship (2002-2004)
 Sudler Grant for the Creative and Performing Arts (2003, 2005)
 National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar (2001)
 Qualifier, California State Championship in Impromptu Speaking (2001)
 Degree of Distinction, National Forensic League (2001)
 3rd prize, Essay Contest on Ayn Rand's Novel The Fountainhead (2000)
 Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award (2000)