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All-Norwegian music to be featured in cello-piano recital Jan. 11 at St. Olaf

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January 8, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? All-Norwegian music will be featured in a recital by cellists Mira Frisch and Melita Glass and St. Olaf College music faculty member and pianist Kathryn Ananda-Owens on Thursday, Jan. 11, at the college.

Thursday?s recital, free and open to the public, will be at 8 p.m. in Urness Recital Hall, Christiansen Hall of Music. Music to be performed includes Suite for Cello by David Monrad Johansen and Sonata for Cello by Edvard Grieg.

Frisch and Glass, both Year 2000 St. Olaf graduates and music majors, are the first recipients of scholarship assistance from the Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe Endowment to further the study of Norwegian music.

Frisch, who graduated from St. Olaf with a bachelor of arts degree in music and mathematics, is pursuing a master?s degree in cello performance at Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studies with Richard Aaron and Merry Peckham. She is a former student of David Carter and Anna Clift. While at St. Olaf she soloed with and was co-principal cellist of the St. Olaf Orchestra. This summer she expects to become a certified Suzuki cello teacher, and after completing her master?s degree plans to continue her cello studies at the doctorate level.

Glass, originally from Grand Rapids, Mich., began playing cello at age 10. She currently studies with cellist Norman Fischer of the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, Texas, where she will earn a master of music degree in cello performance. She intends to pursue a career in cello performance and teaching.

Ananda-Owens, winner of the 1993 Neale-Silva Young Artists Competition, has performed in concerts throughout the world, including a recent performance and recording of the Amy Beach Piano Concerto in Prague, the Czech Republic. In 1997 she made her Asian debut in a concert sponsored by the government of Macau. Ananda-Owens is in her fourth year on the faculty at St. Olaf.

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St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty of approximately 250. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.