History and Literature Faculty
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. |
Forsberg received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in theory-composition from the University of Minnesota, where he was a student of Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento. His works are published by G. Schirmer, Belwin-Mills, Augsburg, Schmitt-Hall and McCreary, and Curtis Music Press, and his commissioned works have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra. Forsberg is a member of the Minnesota Composers Forum and ASCAP. |
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Hanson received a B.A. in music from Wells College, Aurora, NY and master’s and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. She studied at Universität der Stadt Wien at Vienna, Austria, under a Fulbright-Hayes grant. Her specialty is the music of Vienna during the 18-20th centuries, but she also has interests in opera and American music. Her publications include a monograph on Music in Biedermeier Vienna (Cambridge University Press) and articles for Music and Letters, Anterem, and in the Oxford Biographical Dictionary of Music. |
Martin Hodel teaches trumpet and music theory at St. Olaf and is active as a soloist and freelance performer in the Twin Cities. He holds a doctorate in trumpet performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music as well as a B.A. in Music Education from Goshen College and a M.M. in trumpet performance and conducting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teachers have included Donald Hunsberger, Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, James Ketch, Raymond Mase, David Hickman and Anthony Plog. In 1997 Hodel performed a 23-concert solo tour of Europe with organist Bradley Lehman. As Principal and Solo Trumpet with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Hodel toured the U.S. and Japan, performing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto. He has also shared the stage with jazz artists Joe Henderson, Maria Schneider, Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, and Jimmy Heath and has toured and soloed with the Dallas Brass. He has performed and recorded with numerous symphony orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, Minnesota Chorale, Rochester Philharmonic, South Bend Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Southwest Michigan Symphony, and the Asheville Symphony. For two years Hodel worked as a North Carolina Visiting Artist, giving solo and chamber performances around North Carolina. He also has served on the faculty of Goshen College, conducting the symphony orchestra and teaching trumpet and music history. |
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 EMA presented him with 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. |
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, 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, 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. Mahr is the president of the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association. |
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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. |











