Clare A. Thornley is a graduate student in musicology. In addition to being a bassoonist, her research interests include Antonín Dvořák’s American and post-American music, music in the non-music classroom, the music and concerts of Queen, Vítĕzslava Kaprálová (early 20^th-century Czech composer and student of Martinů), Laura Sedgwick Collins (an American student of Dvořák), and music library and archives. Clare holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Northern Iowa and a Masters of Music in musicology from the Sydney Convservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney (Australia), where she wrote her thesis on the Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney, an amateur choral organization active in Sydney at the turn of the twentieth century. Recently, she completed a professional development program in teaching and learning, earning a certificate from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Office for Academic and Student Life.  She was also awarded a Global Fellowship from NYU to conduct research and work with students at NYU in Prague during the Fall 2008 semester.