Faculty Listing
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Amundson holds a B.A. from Luther College and an M.M. in orchestral conducting and music theory from Northwestern University. He pursued further study in orchestral conducting and musicology at University of Virginia and the Aspen Music School. In 1980, Amundson was winner of the Hans Haring Prize in conducting in Salzburg, Austria. He is the Minnesota Music Educators' Association 1992 recipient of the "Orchestra Educator of Year" award. Formerly the music director of the Tacoma Youth Symphony, Amundson is the founding conductor of the Metropolitan Symphony in Minneapolis and served as the music director of the Bloomington Symphony for 13 years. A published composer, Amundson is also active as a guest conductor and clinician. |
Kathryn Ananda-Owens, Associate Professor of Music: Piano. B.A., Oberlin College (Phi Beta Kappa); B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Pi Kappa Lambda); M.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music; D.M.A., Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Julian Martin. Previous teachers include Robert McDonald and Sedmara Zakarian Rutstein, in addition to collaborative studies with Earl Carlyss and Ellen Mack, and summer studies with Sergei Babayan and Paul Schenly. Winner of first prize in the 1993 Neale-Silva Young Artists Competition, Ananda-Owens enjoys an active career as performer, teacher, and lecturer. A laureate of the American Pianists Association Biennial Fellowship Competition, she made her Asian debut in 1997 under the auspices of the government of Macao. Her European debut took place the following year in Vienna. Ananda-Owens has appeared as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, toured internationally with the St. Olaf Orchestra, and collaborated with flutist Alison Potter in performances at Lincoln Center. A founding member of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, Dr. Ananda-Owens performs regularly as the pianist of the Melius Trio, has recorded with violinist Hector Valdivia, and collaborated with members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the inaugural concerts of the North American Bridge Festival. Her concerts have been broadcast on radio and television on three continents. An expert on the keyboard cadenzas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, she is currently at work on a book on the subject. Ananda-Owens is actively involved with the Performing Arts Medical Association, and serves on the association's Education and Research Committee. She has been a member of the St. Olaf College faculty since 1997. |
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 Christopher AspaasAssistant Professor of Music — Voice and Choral Conducting Conductor of Chapel Choir and Viking Chorus aspaas@stolaf.edu Dr. Aspaas received his M.M. in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University in East Lansing, and his B.M. in Voice Performance from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Dr. Aspaas recently completed his Ph.D. in Choral Music Education at The Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He was the Interim Director of Choral Studies at Central Washington University. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Dr. Aspaas was on the faculty of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. While there, he conducted the Concert Choir and Cantamus, taught private applied voice and choral conducting. Additionally, Dr. Aspaas served as Acting Director of Choral Activities in 2000-2001 and conducted the Glee Club and Chamber Choir, who performed the Durufle' Requiem and Bach's Mass in B Minor. Since 2001, Dr. Aspaas has sung with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus in Eugene, Oregon, under the direction of Helmuth Rilling. He has recently performed as a soloist with Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Bach Collegium of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. He has participated in master classes with Ingeborg Danz, John Wustmann and Bradley Ellingboe, and remains active as an adjudicator, clinician and researcher. |
 Christopher AtzingerAssistant Professor of Music — Piano atzinger@stolaf.edu Christopher Atzinger, a native of Jackson, Michigan, has performed in Austria, Italy, France, Spain, and Canada in addition to performances across the United States highlighted by concerts at Carnegie Hall (Weill), the Dame Myra Hess Series, and the Phillips Collection. His artistry has also been broadcast on Chicago’s Live from WFMT and Minnesota Public Radio, and he has recorded for MSR Classics. He has performed at the Banff International Keyboard Festival, Brevard Music Festival, and the Chautauqua Institution, in addition to giving lectures and masterclasses across the county. A medalist of the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, and the Nina Plant Wideman International Piano Competition, Mr. Atzinger has been praised by critics for his “personal interpretive vision” and “virtuoso aplomb”. In addition to degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan, he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He counts among his teachers Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Anton Nel, David Renner, and Carolyn Lipp, among others. Former faculty at Dickinson College, (PA) |
 Barbara Barth Academic Administrative Assistant — Music Department barth@stolaf.edu |
 Linda BergerAssociate Professor of Music — Music Education berger@stolaf.edu Berger received a bachelor's degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from St. Olaf College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in music from the University of Minnesota. Berger is especially interested in contemporary music methods and the child voice. She studied Dalcroze eurhythmics under Robert Abramson of the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. Berger was named Minnesota Classroom Music Educator of the Year in 1990 and taught in public schools for more than twenty years before joining the St. Olaf College faculty. She is an active keyboard performer and music education presenter. |
 Denise Bundgaard Administrative Assistant to Music Organizations bundgaar@stolaf.edu |
 Mark Calkins Instructor in Music — Voice calkins@stolaf.edu Mark Calkins earned a B.M. in K-12 Music Education from Concordia College, Moorhead and his M.M. in Voice Performance & Pedagogy from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has appeared in leading roles with opera companies throughout North America and Europe. His artistic specialty is the Rossini repertoire. Mark has performed Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri, The Prince in La Cenerentola, The Count in Le Comte Ory and Oreste in Ermione to critical acclaim in Opera houses such as: Opera De Nantes, France; Dublin Grand Opera, Ireland; Cologne Opera, Germany; The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Birmingham Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Castleward Opera, Northern Ireland; Kentucky Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Toledo Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Omaha, Mobile Opera, Central City Opera and Dayton Opera. He is a former member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s young artist development program, the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Mr. Calkins was featured as Cassio in Otello on an A&E nationwide production of Spotlight Colorado and starred in a National PBS Television broadcast and World Premiere of Robert Greenleafs’ Under the Arbor, available on DVD. Concert engagements include appearances in Europe’s Music festivals in Salzburg, Bregenz, Villach, Austria; Merano, Italy and Bremen, Germany with Roger Norrington conducting the London Classical Players in Rossini’s Stabat Mater. He has appeared throughout the U.S. in Broadway touring productions of Phantom of the Opera. Mark joined the faculty of St. Olaf College in 2005. He is a current recipient of the Ted & Roberta Mann Scholarship working toward his D.M.A. at the University of Minnesota. He also maintains a private studio of young professional singers and teaches master classes in performance at the pre-professional level across the country and in Italy. Mark recently performed Nadir in Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles with FM Opera in March, Camille in the Operafestival di Roma production of La vedova allegra (The Merry Widow, Lehar) in Rome, Italy in July and Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Opera Fort Collins, Colorado in August of 2006. In December, Mark and his wife, Metropolitan Opera Star, Cynthia Lawrence will appear in recital for “The Minneapolis Women’s Club”. In January of 2009 Mark and Cynthia will be appearing in recital at the 4th International Conference on the Physiology and Acoustics of Singing at the University of Texas, San Antonio. |
 David Carter Professor of Music — Cello carter@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/carter Carter earned a B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, an M.M. from Indiana University, and a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois. His cello teachers have included Robert Jamieson, Gary Hoffman, Janos Starker, and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. Prior to coming to St. Olaf, Carter was instructor of cello at Wichita State University and principal cello of the Wichita Symphony. He was a finalist in the First International Emmanuel Feuermann Solo Cello Competition, semifinalist in the 1985 Concert Artist Guild Competition, and semifinalist in the 1989 Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music. He has performed as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra under Neville Mariner, the Wichita Symphony, the Pueblo Symphony, the Kenwood Chamber Orchestra, the Bloomington Symphony, and the Northeast Chamber Orchestra. He has served on the faculty at the International Institute of Music in Taos, N.M., and participated in the Washington Island Music Festival. |
 Laura CavianiInstructor in Music - Jazz Piano caviani@stolaf.edu Laura Caviani, B.M. Composition, Lawrence University, where she studied with Fred Sturm and Rodney Rogers. M.M. in Improvisation, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she co-taught and studied with Ed Sarath and bass legend Reggie Workman. She has extensive teaching experience, including St. John's University, the Universities of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and Stevens Point, The University of St. Thomas, and many middle schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul through the "Harman How to Listen Program", an outreach program co-founded by Wynton Marsalis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune hailed her debut recording, Dreamlife, as: “...in a word, outstanding”. Marian McPartland found it “...sparkling and inventive”. Her second release, As One, nominated for a 1999 Minnesota Music Award, was touted as “stunningly fresh” by Jazz Times. Her holiday album, Angels We Haven't Heard, was considered “this season's finest new jazz CD of holiday music” by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Caviani has performed and recorded with Concord recording artist and vocalist Karrin Allyson, and has toured with the Concord Jazz Festival featuring Oleta Adams, Diane Schuur and Sara Gazarek. Locally, she has performed with many fine artists in the Twin Cities, including: Lucia Newell, Pete Whitman's Xtet, Prudence Johnson, Debbie Duncan, among others. Her compositions include numerous works for jazz ensembles, the Sax Quartet JazzAx, as well as orchestral works for both the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra. |
 Beth ChristensenProfessor — Music Librarian christeb@stolaf.edu Christensen received a B.M. from Illinois State University, a M.S.L.S. from the University of Illinois, and a M.A. in musicology from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Music Library Association (Program Chair, 1992; MLA Board member 1992-1994; currently on Reference Performance Subcommittee), Music Library Association — Midwest Chapter (Chair, 1987-1989; currently chairing the Bylaws Committee), and Sonneck Society. Research interests include bibliographic instruction in music and early twentieth-century American music. She has published articles in American Music, Notes, Research Strategies, and Reference and User Services Quarterly. |
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 Anna CliftInstructor in Music — Cello clift@stolaf.edu Anna Clift, cellist of the Artaria String Quartet, is adjunct professor of cello at Carleton College and St Olaf College in Northfield, MN where she also maintains her own private studio of young cellists. Additionally, she directs the Northfield Branch of the Artaria Chamber Music School, a highly regarded program founded by the Artaria String Quartet in St Paul dedicated to educating young musicians in the art of chamber music collaboration and performance. Anna received her Bachelor's degree in music performance from Indiana University, where she studied with world reknowned cellist Janos Starker, and her Master's degree from SUNY-Stony Brook, studying with the legendary cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio, Bernard Greenhouse. Other teachers and mentors have been Gary Hoffman, Paul Tortelier, and Menahem Pressler. Anna regularly performs in the cello sections of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In addition to their European tours, she is a frequent collaborator on the Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest chamber music concerts, appearing with today's leading artists such as Gil Shaham, Sharon Isbin, and the Artemis Trio. |
 Mary DavisPerformance Librarian Mechanical Rights Administrator of St. Olaf Records davisms@stolaf.edu |
 Dan DressenProfessor of Music — Voice and Lyric Diction Associate Dean for Fine Arts dressen@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/dressen Dressen earned a B.S. from Bemidji State University and an M.F.A. and D.M.A. from the University of Minnesota. He was a voice student of Roy Schuessler and has coached with Gerard Souzay at The Ravel International Academy of Music in France and with Sir Peter Pears and Eleanor Steber. An active performer, Dressen was recently with the Washington Opera at Kennedy Center in Carmen and the world premiere of The Dream of Valentino by Dominick Argento. He has been a soloist with the Minnesota Opera, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Plymouth Music Series, Minnesota Orchestra, and Aldeburgh Festival in England, and has appeared several times with Garrison Keillor in A Prairie Home Companion. Dressen's recordings include Aaron Copland's The Tenderland and Benjamin Britten's Paul Bunyan and The Company of Heaven. He was also editor of an anthology series of opera arias by Benjamin Britten for Boosey & Hawkes publishing company. |
| Margaret Eaves-Smith, Associate Professor of Voice, B.M., M.M. in Vocal Performance, Cleveland Institute of Music; student of George Vassos. Soprano, Margaret Eaves-Smith, a native of Havre, Montana, was first recognized as a rising talent early in her career when she received the Artist Award from the National Association of Teachers of Singing in 1973. She has achieved both national and international awards in the Regional Metropolitan Opera, S-Hertogenbosch, and Geneva vocal competitions as well. She has sung with the L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande and the Minnesota Orchestra, and under the direction of James Levine, Louis Lane, Margaret Hillis and John Rutter. Her coaches have included George London, Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin, and James King both in the United States and Europe. Additional study includes master classes in Graz, Austria and Aldeburgh, England. Before her tenure at St. Olaf, she taught on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With many years experience as a recitalist, adjudicator and with special interest in the performance of lieder, chanson, and oratorio, Margaret has served as a dedicated teacher to St. Olaf students since 1979. In May of 2004, Ms. Eaves-Smith was the recipient of an alumni achievement award for excellence in teaching from the Cleveland Institute of Music. |
 Andrea EenAssociate Professor of Music — Violin and Viola een@stolaf.edu http:// www.andreaeen.com Een earned a D.M.A. in violin performance and literature from the University of Illinois. She has studied violin with Theodore Brunson, Marilyn Box, Dorothy DeLay, Paul Rolland, Eduard Melkus, and Paul Kantor, and viola with Louis Kievman. Een has also studied chamber music with members of the Hungarian and Walden String quartets. She has a special research interest in the Norwegian folk Hardanger fiddle and has been featured on National Public Radio and on Norwegian National Television performing and talking about emigrant fiddle traditions. She is a member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, the Plymouth Festival Orchestra, and a frequent chamber music performer on violin and viola. Een has performed as a solo and chamber musician in Norway, France, Germany, Austria, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica. |
 Julia ElkinaInstructor in Music - Piano elkina@stolaf.edu With a Diploma of Distinction in Piano Performance, Julia Elkina came to the United States in 1993 and studied under Professor Alexander Braginsky at the University of Minnesota where she earned her doctoral degree in Piano Performance. Ms. Elkina is particularly famed for her duo-piano work with her twin sister Irina. The Elkinas won first prize in the 1992 International Duo Piano Competition, Citta di Marsala in Italy. This triumph was soon followed by their success in the Murray Dranoff competition, the largest duo-piano competition in the world, where they shared the top prize and received the special award for best performance of the commissioned work — Taschyag by Paul Schoenfield. Ms. Elkina has performed throughout the United States, playing in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, New Orleans, and at the Oregon Bach Festival and multiple orchestral appearances by the Elkinas with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Recent major engage-ments included sixteen performances at Lincoln Center in New York, playing Stravinsky's Petrushka with her sister in a live theater and music collaboration with performance artist Basil Twist and nine puppeteers. A frequent guest with her sister on National Public Radio, she has performed on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor several times, as well as on the nationally syndicated Saint Paul Sunday music program. |
 Richard EricksonAssociate Manager of Music Organizations ericksor@stolaf.edu |
 Alison FeldtAssociate Professor of Music — Voice and Vocal Pedagogy Department Chair feldt@stolaf.edu Feldt received a B.A. from Luther College, and M.A. in vocal music and pedagogy from the University of Iowa, and a D.M.A. in vocal performance from the University of Minnesota. Her additional study has been with Kerstin Meyer, Rita Streich, and Rudolf Knoll of the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. Feldt has won numerous awards, including first place in the 1992 and 1995 Minnesota District NATS Artist Award Voice Competition, first place in the 1990 Minnesota - Western Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera auditions, first place in the 1989 Opera/Lied Competition from the city of Salzburg Cultural Foundation, and first place in the 1989 Operetta Competition in Salzburg, Austria. Special interests lie in the performance of lieder, chanson, and opera. |
 John FergusonElliot and Klara Stockdal Johnson Professor of Organ and Church Music Minister of Music to the Student Congregation ferg@stolaf.edu Ferguson earned a B.M. from Oberlin, an M.M. from Kent State University, and a D.M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Russel Saunders. Ferguson is one of America's most respected church musicians and teachers. He has been invited as a visiting professor by the faculties of the University of Notre Dame and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He is respected as a fine teacher and performer, and his work as an improviser and leader of congregational song has received national acclaim. John Ferguson's name is immediately associated with hymnody and the words "hymn festival." Every year he is invited to design and lead such events, both in local congregations and at gatherings of organists, choral conductors, and church musicians. In 1995 he designed and led a hymn festival in the Washington National Cathedral, for the American Choral Directors Association national convention and in 1998 did the same at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Denver. He has presented such events abroad as well both in Asia (July, 1996 in Seoul, Korea) and Europe (August, 1997) in the National Cathedral of Norway, Nidaros Dom, Trondheim, as a part of the celebration of the millennium of the birth of St. Olaf. Although he is a Lutheran, his festivals are ecumenical experiences drawing upon the greatest treasures of Christian song from many centuries, traditions and styles. |
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 Linda Frost Music Library Associate frost@stolaf.edu |
 Michele Gillman Instructor in Music — Theory and Aural Skills gillman@stolaf.edu Instructor in Music, Michele Gillman, is a composer of acoustic and computer music. She earned her doctorate in music composition from Northwestern University where she studied with Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. She was awarded a fellowship to study composition and orchestration at the St. Magnus Festival in Kirkwall, Orkney where she studied with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sally Beamish, and Alasdair Nicholson. The fellowship resulted in the premiere of St. Magnus’ Fire, performed by the Kreisler Ensemble, at St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. She has currently been commissioned by the Air National Guard’s 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, MN to compose music for documentary and recruitment videos. She has also worked in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros, Gerhard Stäbler, Mauricio Kagel, and Jeffrey Kowalkowski. She is currently creating the Gary and Vivian Gillson Gee Whiz Show: a series of new music concerts that focus on cabaret style programming with a twist. Her music has been performed throughout the US and Western Europe: St. Magnus Festival, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, SEAMUS Electronic Music Festival (Ames, IA), FEMF-Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival (Gainesville, FL), Catatonic Head/Queen Slacker (Chicago, Ames, New York), Gustavus Adolphus Orchestra (Minneapolis, St. Peter, and Chicago), Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra (Duluth, MN), Jack the Dog (Chicago), Live Bait Theatre (Chicago), the Vienna Saxophone Quartet (Vienna & Chicago), Athanasios Zervas, et al. (Athens, Greece), WNUR (Chicago) and others. |
 Tracey GormanInstructor in Music — Voice gorman@stolaf.edu With a voice the Boston Globe called “extraordinary in range, tonal quality, musicianship, and dramatic effect, “soprano Tracey Gorman has gained a reputation for excellence in opera, recital, and concert. Ms. Gorman has performed operatic roles with the Minnesota Opera and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and performed as soloist with the Minnesota Choral Union, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Rochester Aria Group. Ms. Gorman has also won numerous awards including the Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist Competition in Austin, Texas, the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist Competition, the Minnesota NATS Artist Award, and was a regional finalist in the 2002-2003 Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Ms. Gorman performed with the St. Olaf Orchestra at Alice Tulley Hall and performed Britten’s War Requiem with the Chapel Choir and the St. Olaf Orchestra. Ms. Gorman spent two summers as a Vocal Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center where she coached with Phyllis Curtin, Dawn Upshaw, Martin Katz, Ken Griffiths, and Lucy Shelton and has performed the music of several of the worlds most prominent contemporary composers. Ms. Gorman earned a B.M. degree in both vocal performance and K-12 vocal music education from St. Olaf College, a M.M. degree from the University of Minnesota and is currently completing her D.M.A. under the tutelage of Glenda Maurice at the U of MN. |
 Charles GrayProfessor of Music — Violin and Viola gray@stolaf.edu Gray earned a B.M. from Wheaton College, an M.M. from the University of Michigan, and he received a chamber music certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he pursued additions study on viola. His principal study was with Paul Makanowitzky and Sylvia Rosenberg (violin), with Atar Arad (viola), and with the Cleveland Quartet (in chamber music). Gray was the violist of the Casella String Quartet, winner of the 1981 Cleveland Quartet Competition and the 1983 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. He has performed as a solo recitalist at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and as a chamber musician at the Aspen Music Festival and the Steamboat Springs Festival in Colorado. Previously a member of the Rochester Philharmonic (N.Y.) and the Grand Rapids Symphony (Mich.), and concertmaster of the Bloomington Symphony (Minn.), Gray is currently a substitute member of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is also employed on the music staff of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minn. In recent years he has been featured as a violin and viola soloist on many occasions with the St. Olaf Choir, St. Olaf Cantorei, and St. Olaf Orchestra. |
 David HagedornArtist in Residence — Percussion, Theory, and World Music Director of Jazz Ensembles hagedord@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/music/percussion Hagedorn earned a B.S. in music education from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Marv Dahlgren and Paula Culp of the Minnesota Orchestra; an M.M. in percussion performance from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Vic Firth of the Boston Symphony; and a D.M.A. in percussion performance from the Eastman School of Music, where his principal teacher was John Beck. Hagedorn has recorded with the George Russell Living Time Orchestra on Blue Note Recordings and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra on Teldec Recordings. He regularly performs in a jazz oriented percussion duo, Schag, with Dave Schmalenberger and does freelance work in the Twin Cities with groups such as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble, and Plymouth Music Series. |
 Mary HakesAssistant Director of Admissions and Music Admissions Coordinator music@stolaf.edu |
 Kathee HanscomAcademic Administrative Assistant — Music Department hanscom@stolaf.edu |
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 J. Robert HansonVisiting Professor of Music — Trumpet hansonjr@stolaf.edu J. Robert Hanson (BM, Concordia College; MA, MFA, PhD, University of Iowa) taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before joining the music faculty at Concordia College in 1966. He conducted the Concordia College Band for eight years and was the founder and conductor of the Concordia College orchestra from 1967 until his retirement in 1995. Hanson was also the conductor of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra from 1974 to 1990. During his tenure the symphony received four ASCAP awards for “Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music.” An accomplished trumpet player, Hanson has an extensive background in performance, which included playing principal trumpet with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, he has written works for orchestra, band, and other instrumental and vocal ensembles. Recent compositions include commissioned works for the Minnesota All-state Orchestra, the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, the Twin Cities Suburban Festival Orchestra, the Grand Forks Central and Red River High School Bands, and six anthems for three churches in Willmar, Minn., as part of the Church/Synagogue Residency program sponsored by the American Composers Forum. |
 Janis HardyAssociate Professor of Music — Voice hardyj@stolaf.edu Hardy has appeared in concerts and operas throughout the United States, including appearances with the Opera Company of Boston, the Spring Opera of San Francisco, the Houston Opera, and the Minnesota Opera. She has soloed under Klaus Tennstedt, Neville Mariner, Dennis Russell Davies, Aaron Copland, Edo DeWaart, and Charles Dutoit. Hardy has done the following solo albums: Copland's Old American Songs and Larsen's In a Winter Garden for Pro Arte, Britten's Paul Bunyan, Copland's Tender Land, and Smythe's Mass in D for Virgin Classics. She has studied with Thomas Grubb and Martin Katz. |
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 Gerald HoekstraProfessor of Music — History and Literature Conductor of Collegium Musicum and Early Music Singers hoekstra@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hoekstra Hoekstra teaches music history and directs the St. Olaf early music ensembles, the Collegium Musicum and Early Music Singers. His area of specialization is music of the Renaissance, particularly the French and Flemish chanson. He has published articles in Early Music, Musica Disciplina, Speculum, and The Choral Journal, and he has published critical editions of music of Hubert Waelrant and André Pevernage, and most recently an edition of Le Rossignol musical des chansons (Antwerp, 1597). He is a member of the American Musicological Society, the Viola da Gamba Society of America, and Early Music America, and in 2002 he was presented with EMA's Thomas Binkley Award, a national collegium directors award. He currently serves on the board of Early Music America and is chair the EMA Committee for Early Music in Higher Education. Hoekstra earned his B.A. from Calvin College and master's and doctoral degrees in music history from The Ohio State University under a University Fellowship. |
 Tony HoltInstructor in Music — Voice holta@stolaf.edu Holt received bachelor's and master's degrees from Oxford University. A singer since age 7, he was included as one of the choristers at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. He has sung professionally in a Cathedral Choir and in the BBC Singers, and more recently was a founding member of the King's Singers, an internationally renowned, six-voice male vocal ensemble. Since 1987 he has divided his time among professional soloing in oratorio, writing record jacket notes, producing records, being a classical disc jockey, and teaching privately and through various schools. |
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John Jensen, BA, Occidental College (Calif.) and MA piano performance, University of Southern California. Principal teachers were Gwendolyn Koldofsky and John Crown (piano), and Halsey Stevens and Ingolf Dahl (composition and 20th century techniques.) He works regularly with the Minnesota Orchestra and the SPCO, and is sought after as a collaborative pianist, playing with fine artists in concerts and music festivals across the country. He often appears on St. Paul Sunday Morning and A Prairie Home companion and has performed with artists such as Doc Severinson, Andy Williams, and Nancy Wilson. He is co-founder of Helios, a classical-jazz quartet, and is the pianist in a jazz-only quartet of musicians from the Twin Cities. His discography includes solo recordings of classical piano, jazz, ragtime music, and chamber music with various artists. He received a Grammy nomination, a Stereo Review “Record of Special Merit” award, and a “Record of the Year” citation from the Village voice. |
 B.J. JohnsonManager of Music Organizations and Assistant to Department Chair musicman@stolaf.edu |
 Dennis JohnsonPiano Technician johnsond@stolaf.edu |
 Sigrid JohnsonArtist in Residence — Voice Conductor of the Manitou Singers johnsos@stolaf.edu Johnson received a B.M. in vocal performance from St. Cloud State University and an M.M. in voice performance from the University of Michigan. She is the conductor of the Manitou Singers. Before her appointment at St. Olaf, she was on the music faculties of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter and at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Ms. Johnson is also the Associate Conductor of the Ensemble Singers and Chorus for Philip Brunelle’s VocalEssence, formerly known as the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota. Ms. Johnson maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician at choral festivals and all-state music festivals across the country and has conducted choral workshops in Australia. She is a member of the American Choral Director's Association (ACDA), Music Educator’s National Conference (MENC), the International Federation for Choral Music and Chorus America.In January through March 1999, Ms. Johnson conducted the National Lutheran Choir of Minneapolis. Ms. Johnson has served as Conductor of the Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus and the Associate Conductor of the Dale Warland Singers. She has prepared symphonic choruses for Neemi Jarvi, Sir Neville Mariner, David Zinman, Stanislaw Skrowaczewsky, Gerard Swartz, Edo de Waart, and Leonard Slatkin among others.In August 2002, she was one of the featured lecturers for the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music. In October 2004, Mrs. Johnson was a featured lecturer and clinician at the Australian National Choral Directors National Conference in Adelaide. In 2006 she was a member of the esteemed jury for the Bela Bartok International Choral Competition in Debrecen, Hungary and in 2008 she will be a lecturer on choral sound for the Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen. |
 Mark KelleyInstructor in Music — Bassoon kelleybsn@comcast.net Kelley earned a B.M. in Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kelley has studied with George Berry, George Goslee, Norman Herzberg, and Gary Echols. A 25-year member of the Minnesota Orchestra, Kelley is currently co-principal bassoonist and has appeared as a soloist on several occasions. He has also been a member of the Santa Fe Opera Company orchestra, and has attended numerous summer music festivals worldwide. He keeps a rigorous performing schedule and maintains a private teaching studio. Kelley has been a member of the St. Olaf music faculty since 1991. |
Instructor in Music, Nancy Lee, holds a B.A. in music education from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. She has been at Southwest High School as the Vocal Music Director since the fall of 2000. Ms. Lee has taught in Slinger and Milwaukee, WI, Prior Lake, MN, Trenton, New Jersy, and Farmington, IA. |
 Dana Maeda Instructor in Music — Oboe maeda@stolaf.edu BM Oboe Performance, Music Education (vocal) and Music Education (instrumental), St. Olaf College; M.A., St. Mary's University. Primary teachers include Julie Madura and Rhadames Angelucci. Maeda currently performs with the Rochester Orchestra, Dolce Wind Quintet, and WindWorks Woodwind Quintet. She is active as a free-lance performer in the Twin City area. She has performed with the Bach Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Sinfonia, Minneapolis Pops Orchestra, Arius, Moody Blues, Bloomington Symphony, Kenwood Chamber Orchestra, and the Minnesota Symphonic Winds. She has previously served on the faculty of Bethel University and Crown College. |
 Jill MahrInstructor in Music — Flute Conductor of Handbell Choirs mahrj@stolaf.edu Ms. Mahr holds a B.M. degree in flute performance and music education with a jazz minor from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She earned a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance at Northwestern University, where she studied with Walfrid Kujala of the Chicago Symphony. In addition to flute instruction, Ms. Mahr directs the St. Olaf Handbell Choir, the St. Olaf Chapel Ringers, and oversees the direction of the student-led Manitou Handbell Choir. Previously she was director of the King's Ringers at Mount of Olives Baptist Church in Duluth, MN. She is an active member of AGEHR (American Guild of English Handbell Ringers) and is currently their Area VII secretary. Ms. Mahr is principal flute in the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, flute instructor at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Carleton College and has a private flute studio in her home. |
 Timothy MahrProfessor of Music — Composition and Conducting Conductor of the St. Olaf Band mahr@stolaf.edu Timothy Mahr holds a B.M. degree in composition and a B.A. degree in music education from St. Olaf College and a master's degree in trombone performance and a D.M.A. in instrumental conducting from the University of Iowa. An internationally acclaimed composer, Dr. Mahr received the 1991 Ostwald Award in the ABA Band Composition Contest for his composition The Soaring Hawk. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1993. Formerly director of bands at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and founding conductor of the Twin Ports Wind Ensemble, Dr. Mahr is the principal conductor of the Minnesota Symphonic Winds and is active as a clinician and guest conductor nationally and internationally. Recent commissions have come from the United States Air Force Band, the Music Educators National Conference, and the American Bandmasters Association. Over a dozen of his works for band have been published, with many released on compact disc recordings and included on state contest lists. Dr. Mahr is a past-president of the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association (1999-2001), has served on the Board of Directors of the National Band Association (1996-98) and was a founding board member of the Minnesota Band Directors Association. |
| Mary Martz Instructor in Music — Voice martz@stolaf.edu Mary Martz, soprano, Instructor in Music. B.S. in Performance and Music Education with a minor in Speech Therapy, Moorhead State University. Graduate studies at Amherst College. Ms. Martz has an extensive performance background in opera theatre with the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Opera Touring Company, other regional companies, oratorio, recitals, and many years of classroom and private voice instruction. She has also taught in the New York NYSSSA program and is Lecturer in Voice at Carleton College. |
 Harriet McClearyInstructor in Music — Voice mccleary@stolaf.edu Harriet McCleary, soprano, has performed recitals, in operas and oratorios in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Texas and Graz, Austria. Dr. McCleary takes great inspiration from introducing new music to audiences. In 1997 she premiered the first four songs of a set entitled "Chanting to Paradise" by Libby Larsen. In 1999 she premiered a set of songs, "Still Life," by Monte Mason. Formerly on voice faculties at University of Nebraska at Omaha and Westminster Choir College, she teaches on the voice faculty at St. Olaf College and privately at her home studio. Her degrees include B.M.E. and B.M. in Church Music, Texas Christian University; M.M. in Voice, Choral Conducting and Church Music, Westminster Choir College; and D.M.A. in Voice Performance, University of Minnesota. She currently sings with the St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral Choir, Minneapolis. |
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 Kent McWilliamsAssociate Professor of Music — Piano mcw@stolaf.edu McWilliams holds a B.M. and a M.M. in Piano Performance, from the University of Toronto and a D.M.A. from the University of Montreal. He lived in Poland for a year, where he studied with Andrzej Jasinski and researched the Polish folk elements in Chopin's mazurkas and polonaises. He also studied in Germany, where he earned an Artist Diploma with highest distinction under pianist Oleg Maisenberg at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. McWilliams has enjoyed a successful performing career, having performed in over a dozen countries, and has been an award winner at competitions of Porto (Portugal), the Regina Symphony, the Canadian Music Competitions and the Canadian National Competitive Festival of Music. He performs and records chamber music as a member of the Meridian Trio. McWilliams joined the faculty at St. Olaf after having previously held teaching positions at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada and at the Glenn Gould Professional School in Toronto. Also active as a clinician, he has presented performance and pedagogy workshops across North America. |
 Justin MerrittAssistant Professor of Music — Theory and Composition merritt@stolaf.edu B.M. Trinity University, M.M. and D.M.A. Indiana University. A student of Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, Don Freund, Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer and electronic and computer music with Jeffrey Hass, he was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim award in 2001 for "Janus Mask for Orchestra". He is also the winner of the 2000 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Competition Award for "The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro". In addition, his "Ravening for string quartet" was the winner of the 2001 Kuttner String Quartet Competition and runner-up for the 2001 Left Coast Competition, as was his "5 Preludes for Piano" in the 2000 ASCAP Foundation Awards. Other works include music for orchestra, ballet, and opera. He has worked as composer and musical director in dozens of theater productions, ranging from Shakespeare to Dada. |
 Dawn ModerMusic Library Associate moder@stolaf.edu |
 Elinor NiemistoInstructor in Music — Harp niemiste@stolaf.edu Niemisto received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan. She was also a student at the National Music Camp, Interlochen. Neimisto was harp soloist with several symphonies in the Detroit area while in high school, as well as with the International Youth Symphony in Windsor, Canada. She has attended the Salzedo Harp Colony in Camden, Maine, and has played with the Canadian Broadcasting Company in Halifax, the Las Palmas Opera Festival Orchestra (Spain), the Wisconsin Chamber Symphony, and as a free-lance artist and teacher in Finland. She is currently harpist with the Rochester Symphony, the Austin Symphony, the LaCrosse Symphony, and is also on the faculty at Carleton College and Luther College. She has completed five teacher-training sessions in Suzuki harp instruction and has a private studio of about fifteen Suzuki students. |
 Paul NiemistoAssociate Professor of Music — Low Brass Conductor of Norseman Band niemisto@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/niemisto B.M., M.M., University of Michigan, PhD, University of Minnesota. He is Director of the St. Olaf Norseman Band, Trombone Choir, and Tuba Euphonium Ensemble. He has been a member of the Scandinavia Symphony Orchestra of Detroit, Toledo (Ohio)Symphony, Flint (Michigan) Symphony, Las Palmas Opera Festival Orchestra (Spain), Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (Canada). Has studied bass trombone with Edward Kleinhammer of the Chicago Symphony and tuba with Abe Torchinsky at Michigan . In recent years, Niemisto has been a clinician and soloist at festivals in Canada and Scandinavia, and is founder and director of Ameriikan poijat, a Finnish brass band, and the Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra. In Minnesota he has been bass trombonist with the Rochester Orchestra, and euphoniumist with the Sheldon Theatre Brass Band. His research interests are centered on historical brass bands and military brass bands of Finland. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar and an American Scandinavian Foundation scholar, studying about early bands in Finland and St. Petersburg, Russia. |
 Paul OusleyInstructor in Music — Double Bass ousley@stolaf.edu Bass instructor Paul Ousley has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Audubon String Quartet and a host of jazz greats. His former teachers include James Clute, Stuart Sankey, Gary Karr, and James Van Demark. He has served on seven college faculties including the University of Iowa and the Eastman School of Music. His pupils include professional players, teachers, scholarship recipients at major music schools and festivals, as well as winners of the Schubert Club and Minnesota Idol solo competitions. Jonathan Van Dyke, class of 1996, won first place at the 2001 Orchestral Competition of the International Society of Bassists. |
 Nancy PaddlefordProfessor of Music — Piano paddlefo@stolaf.edu Nancy Paddleford, Professor of Music. B.M. and M.M., Indiana University; D.M.A. University of Minnesota. Her teachers have included Gyorgy Sebok, Alfonso Montecino and Bernhard Weiser, and she has studied chamber music with Janos Starker, Joseph Gingold, William Primrose and Franco Gulli. Active as chamber and solo recitalist as well as adjudicator at piano competitions in the United States and Central America, Paddleford's teaching areas include piano performance, chamber music, music appreciation, theory skills and piano pedagogy. Her research emphases have been Hispanic music, performance practice, and memorization techniques. Paddleford has served as artist-in-residence at the University of Costa Rica, has performed twice at the International Festival of Music in Costa Rica as well as three times at that country's Monteverde Music Festival. She is the recipient of the Pro Lingua Award for promoting cross-cultural understanding between the U.S. and Latin America, and was asked to give a St. Olaf Mellby Lecture about her scholarly work. A number of her performances and interviews have been broadcast on radio here and abroad. |
 Dione PetersonInstructor in Music — Music Education petersod@stolaf.edu Peterson received a B.S. in Music Education from Minnesota State University, Mankato and an M.M. in Vocal Performance from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is Chair of the Performing and Visual Arts Department at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minnesota, where she teaches grades 6-12 vocal music, including the select vocal ensembles Elements of Sound and Vocalise. She was formerly Fine Arts Coordinator for the Sioux Falls, South Dakota Public Schools. Prior to her administrative position in Sioux Falls, she taught high school vocal and instrumental music, middle school vocal music, and elementary instrumental music. Peterson is active as a choral clinician throughout the Midwest. Peterson's choral ensembles have appeared on state, division and national ACDA conventions. She is a member of ACDA, MENC, and MEA. At St. Olaf she teaches Choral Methods and Choral Literature I. |
 Michael PetruconisInstructor in Music — Horn petrucon@stolaf.edu BS University of Nebraska at Lincoln, M.M., University of Minnesota. His principal teachers have been Allen French, Herb Winslow and Kendall Betts. Before moving to Minneapolis, Mike served for three seasons as fourth horn in the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. Active as a freelance artist in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, he performs frequently with the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He currently serves as third horn with the Minnesota Opera and second horn with the Minnesota Sinfonia. Mike has had teaching experience in the elementary and middle school classroom, in the college setting, and in private instruction. |
 Jun QianAssistant Professor of Music — Clarinet junqian@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/junqian/ B.M., Baylor University; M.M., Performer’s Certificate; D.M.A., Eastman School of Music. Principal teachers include Kenneth Grant, Stanley Hasty, Richard A Shanley, Jingli Hong, and Peng Gu. Qian has been on the clarinet faculty at Nazareth College, Houghton College, New York State University at Fredonia, music theory teacher at Eastman, chamber music teacher at Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China, and the principal clarinetist of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1997, he won both first prize for the Orchestral Excerpts Competition and third prize in the Solo Competition at the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, second prize in the Texas Young Artist Competition, and first prize in the Baylor Symphony 1998 Concerto Competition. He appeared as concerto soloist with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Chamber Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Xiamen Philharmonic, Baylor Symphony Orchestra and Shangyang Opera Orchestra. In 2001 made his Carnegie Hall debut performing Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1 with the Asian American International Orchestra. International appearances as principal clarinetist also include the Eastman Wind Ensemble's tours of Asia in 2000 and 2004, the North Carolina Festival Orchestra's European tour, the Kent-Blossom Music Festival, National Orchestra Institute, and the American Wind Symphony. In October 2004 he was the featured soloist at the International Performing Arts Festival in Japan, and he has appeared on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” with the Grammy-awarded Ying Quartet. His activities in 2006 as a teacher and performer included a clarinet recital at Paris, France, conducting the Nazareth/Houghton Clarinet Choir as part of International Clarinet Choir Festival, and giving master classes throughout China and Malaysia. His CD, Premiere Rhapsodie, and video Playing the Clarinet were released on the Nanjing Shine Horn label in China. |
Catherine Rodland graduated cum laude with departmental distinction in organ performance from St. Olaf College in 1987. She received her MM and DMA from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she was a student of Russell Saunders. While at Eastman she received the prestigious Performer's Certificate and the Ann Anway Award for excellence in organ performance. Catherine is a prizewinner in several competitions, including the 1994 and 1998 American Guild of Organists Young Artists Competition, and 1994 Calgary International Organ Competition, and first prize in the 1989 International Organ Competition at the University of Michigan. As a result of these competitions she has concertized extensively throughout the United States and Canada. Prior to St. Olaf, Catherine worked as Minister of Music at First Church of Christ in Glastonbury, Connecticut where she was responsible for seven choirs. She co-authored the book "Choristers' Training Program" for the Royal School of Church Music in America, a manual for childrens' choir education. A specialist in working with childrens choirs, Catherine has presented workshops at several church music conventions. Her advanced childrens' choir toured England in the summer of 2001, singing services at Ely Cathedral, Ripon Cathedral, and York Minster. |
Lori Ronning Folland is a staff pianist at St. Olaf College. Prior to her appointment in 1991, she served as a collaborative pianist at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a chamber musician, Lori has been extensively involved with the collaborative art of music making. She has appeared on the “Y” Concert Series in Pittsburgh, on the Twin Cities Schubert Club Artist Series, on numerous recitals with friends and colleagues, and has soloed with the St. Olaf Philharmonia. Her live performances have been recorded for broadcast on WQED, Pittsburgh. She recently collaborated with JoAnn Polley, clarinet, to record works by Litaize, Bozza, Devienne, and Rameau. Their CD is entitled “French Music for Clarinet and Piano”. Lori is also active as a piano teacher. |
 Kay Sahlin Instructor in Music - Flute sahlin@stolaf.edu Kay Sahlin, Instructor in Music: Flute. B.A. in Music from St. Olaf College. Principal teachers include Donald Berglund and Geoffrey Gilbert. Sahlin currently plays principal flute in the Rochester Orchestra and is 2nd flute/piccoloist of the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. She is a founding member of WindWorks, a professional woodwind quintet. She has served as principal flute of Philomusica (a conductorless chamber orchestra), Minneapolis Chamber Symphony and the St. Louis Philharmonic, and has performed as a substitute/extra player with the Minnesota Orchestra. Sahlin was the faculty coordinator for summer master classes at St. Olaf given by Geoffrey Gilbert, Peter Lloyd and William Bennett. |
 Miriam Scholz-CarlsonInstructor of Music — Alexander Technique scholzca@stolaf.edu |
Ray Shows received his M.Mus in violin performance from Boston University (magna cum laude) and his B.mus from Florida State University. He made his solo violin debut with orchestra in his native Atlanta. A McKnight Fellowship prizewinner in 2004, Ray is a founding member of the Artaria String Quartet and for two decades has performed concerts in major concert halls in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Atlanta, across the U.S. and in Europe. He has been a featured artist on ABC television, National Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting and at the L’Epau Festival in France. An Artist/Teacher in Residence at the renowned Tanglewood Institute and at The Quartet Program, Shows is currently Artistic Director of the Artaria Chamber Music School and the newly created Saint Paul String Quartet Competition. His students attend major conservatories and are Schubert Club prizewinners. Appointed to multi-year teaching residencies at Boston College, Viterbo University, Florida State University and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Shows is the recipient of prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and the Heartland Fund. His principal teachers were Roman Totenberg and Gerardo Ribeiro. Eugene Lehner, Raphael Hillyer, and members of the Emerson, Cleveland, Budapest, Muir and La Salle Quartets have mentored him in chamber music. Ray plays on a rare Italian violin made in 1726 by David Tecchler. He has been serving on the faculty of St. Olaf since 2000. |
 Robert C. SmithAssociate Professor of Music — Voice smithr@stolaf.edu Smith earned degrees in both instrumental and vocal music. He has held a variety of teaching positions, serving on the faculties of the University of Vermont, the Berkshire Choral Festival, and the University of New Mexico. Smith has been featured at the Aspen Festival, Madeira Bach Festival (Portugal), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Smith has also performed at the Covent Garden Festival (London), Prague Spring Festival (Czech Republic), Foire Saint Germain (Paris), and Festival Van Vlaanderen (Belgium). In addition, he has appeared on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion" several times. |
 Kevin StocksMarketing Specialist for St. Olaf Records/Music Organizations stocks@stolaf.edu Kevin Stocks, originally from Eugene, Oregon is a St. Olaf graduate of 2002 (BA Music/Management Studies concentration). He sang in Viking Chorus and St. Olaf Choir during his four years as a student. Kevin studied voice, piano and organ in addition to student work as a recordist, Performing Arts Chair of the Student Activities Committee and manager of The Limestones. After graduation, Kevin toured with such family shows as Sesame Street Live, Bear in the Big Blue House Live and Dragon Tales Live as Company Manager. In 2005 he moved back to Eugene and worked at the University of Oregon Alumni Association in event planning and program marketing. When he's not working, Kevin enjoys playing tennis, camping, disc golf, cycling, international travel, basketball, playing the guitar and living in Uptown. |
 Paul WestermeyerVisiting Professor of Church Music westerme@stolaf.edu Paul Westermeyer, Visiting Professor of Church Music, Luther Seminary. B.A., Elmhurst, B.D. Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary; S.M.M., School of Sacred Music, Union Theological Seminary (New York); M.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago. Additional study at The Schola Cantorum, Concordia Theological Seminary, and the liturgical studies program at Notre Dame. Dr. Westermeyer has served as choirmaster-organist for over 30 years, and has served on the faculty of Elmhurst (Ill.) College from 1968-1990, where he was professor of music, department chair, director of the choir and oratorio chorus, and organist. He was ordained in 1986. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association; the American Guild of Organists for whom he served as national chaplain for two terms (1991-1998); the American Society of Church History; the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society; the Hymn Society of America for which he has been Editor (1985-1990) and President (1998-2000); the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Hymnologie; the Liturgical Conference, the Mercersburg Society, and the North American Academy of Liturgy. His books include The Church Musician (1988, rev. 1997); With Tongues of Fire: Profiles in Twentieth-Century Hymn Writing (1995); Let Justice Sing: Hymnody and Justice (1998); and Te Deum: The Church and Music (1998). |
 Herbert WinslowAssistant Professor of Music — Horn fursthorn@aol.com Winslow attended Indiana University, where he studied with Ethel Merker, and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student of Mason Jones. While still a student, he performed frequently with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Winslow was appointed associate principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2005. He has had a long relationship with the Minnesota Orchestra, performing as acting associate principal horn for the 1994-95 season and, since 1993, for Sommerfest. Winslow has long been known to Twin Cities audiences as principal horn of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a position he held from 1981-2005. From 1990 to 1992, Winslow spent his summer seasons as principal horn of the Santa Fe Opera. In demand as a teacher, he has served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota since 1989, and joined the St. Olaf College faculty in 2001. From 2002 to 2004, Winslow performed in the Bay Chamber Music Festival's First Chair All-Stars series in Rockport, Maine, joining principal players from orchestras in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Chicago and Montreal. |
Jack Yates is a member of the renowned James Grear and Company of Minneapolis where he serves as one of the lead singers and staff songwriters of GrearCo Productions. With this ensemble he has toured and recorded extensively. Several of these recordings have reached national acclaim. Jack has worked with the famous duo, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, performing on the Prince of Egypt and Emperor’s New Groove soundtracks. He is well know for his vocals on Don’t Give Up (1998), Set Me Free (2000) and Peace Be Still (2002), all of which he recorded on the James Grear Projects. Jack provided the lead vocals on a remake of Youngblood’s classic from the 70s, Get Together, which has received rave reviews in both the gospel and mainstream markets.Jack graduated from St. Olaf College in 1994. |
 Larry ZimmermanInstructor in Music — Low Brass larryzimmerman@tcinternet.net Trombonist Larry Zimmerman is a member of the Grammy winning Chestnut Brass Company, and is Principal Trombonist of the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. He has performed around Minnesota with many ensembles, including the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Larry is also active in the performance of period brass instruments, including Renaissance sackbuts and 19th Century saxhorns. He enjoys working as a soloist & chamber musician, and has recently presented programs of new music for trombone with piano, organ, tape, film, & other instruments. Larry lives in Minneapolis and is a low brass instructor at St. Olaf College, Bethel University, and the University of St. Thomas. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Music Education from St. Olaf College in 1986, and earned an MM in Trombone Performance from Boston University in 1989. |
