Bio

Dominique Bellon is a professional oboist, teacher and specialist in performance psychology. She holds a doctorate in Oboe Performance from Arizona State University, a Master’s in Oboe from the Cincinnati Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music in Honours Composition from McGill University. She has maintained an active and varied career as an oboist, making her equally at ease with historically informed performances of Baroque literature as with contemporary music. She co-directs and performs in Bach to Now, a chamber music concert series in Lexington KY that focuses on music for voice and instruments from the Baroque period to the present. Her recent performances have included premieres of several new works for oboe, as well as pieces for her trio, Favonian Winds (flute, oboe, clarinet). Dominique Bellon is currently a member of the Lexington Chamber Orchestra and continues to maintain a performing career both in the US and Canada. Her orchestral playing experience includes performing in a variety of ensembles including, la Société philharmonique du nouveau monde, I musici de Montréal, l’orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and l’Orquesta sinfonica de Guanajuato.

Dominique Bellon’s doctoral research, which was on the application of sport psychology to music performance, led her to develop a specialty in this new field. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in this area at University of Ottawa and at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto; taught professional development seminars to actors and musicians; and presented lectures at various universities, junior colleges, private organizations and summer programs in the US and Canada. In 2015, Dominique Bellon was awarded a grant from the Banff Centre (Alberta) to begin work on a book on performance psychology for musicians during a five-week artistic residency. Dr. Bellon’s teaching experience also includes teaching oboe privately for many years as well as teaching oboe and chamber music for the Arizona State University Herberger College at Large. She has been on faculty at Eastern Kentucky University since 2017.