Welcome new member Nobue Matsuoka-Motley
Nobue Matsuoka-Motley, a native of Japan, recently moved from New Orleans, LA to become the Music/Performing Arts Librarian at American University in Washington, DC. She earned her MLIS from Louisiana State University in December 2006. She has worked for Google Inc. as a Japanese Quality Rater, a Reference/Technical Services Librarian at Notre Dame Seminary and a Public Services Assistant/ILL specialist at Loyola University in New Orleans.
She was awarded a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance by Loyola University in New Orleans and a Master of Music by Southern Methodist University. As an active orchestral percussionist, her professional carrier includes performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Opera, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan. She was a semi-finalist for the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony and a finalist for the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2003, the Gambit Weekly of New Orleans, honored her performance "Sticks and Strings II" with the Tribute to the Classical Arts Award for Best Chamber Performance.
Welcome, Nobue!