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Cynthia Green Libby serves as professor of oboe, theory and world music at Missouri State University (MSU), and as principal oboe of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. She studied at the Berlin Musikhochschule and Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in Canada, and holds academic degrees from the University of Michigan (BMA, MM) and Eastman School of Music (DMA, Performer's Certificate). Graduating in 2007 from the International Harp Therapy Program, she was the first Certified Harp Therapy Practitioner in the state of Missouri, and established a course at MSU dealing with the healing power of music. Since the 1980s, she has promoted and premiered numerous works by women internationally; more than twenty oboe pieces have been dedicated to her by Libby Larsen, Joan Tower and others. Also active as a writer, Libby's articles have been published in Women of Note Quarterly, The International Alliance of Women in Music Journal, The Journal of the International Double Reed Society, Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Harp Therapy Journal, and others.