Madeleine Howey is a music theorist and percussionist active in the Fargo-Moorhead and Duluth-Superior communities. Committed to holistic musicianship, she integrates her performance experience into her research and approaches music-making from a score-centered perspective. Her dissertation examines the spatial and timbral diversity inherent in multi-percussion music. Her other research interests include motivic analysis, musical embodiment, and comparative performance studies. She has presented her work on these topics at Music Theory Midwest and the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis.
Howey has performed with numerous regional ensembles, including the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, Itasca Symphony Orchestra, Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, Twin Ports Wind Orchestra, and Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. She teaches private piano and percussion lessons and has taught percussion at the International Music Camp. She has also taught music theory and musicology at North Dakota State University and Valley City State University.
Howey studied percussion at Concordia College with David Eyler and at Indiana University with Michael Spiro, Joseph Galvin, John Tafoya, and Kevin Bobo. Howey holds a B.A. in Music and Mathematics from Concordia College and an M.M. in Music Theory from Indiana University, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory.