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Music Department to host composer Libby Larsen

by Anna Stevens '10
April 18, 2007

Libby Larsen, one of America's most prolific and most performed living composers, will spend a day working with St. Olaf students and faculty on Wednesday.

Larsen's day will start in chapel at 10 a.m. with a performance by the St. Olaf Band of "Veni Creator Spiritus" arranged for the band by student Jonathan Bartz. From 10:45 a.m.-12 noon she will conduct a master class where students will perform selected works by Larsen and will have the opportunity to receive feedback from her. Later in the afternoon, Larsen will be a guest in Justin Merritt and Timothy Mahr's composition classes. From 3:15-4:15, Larsen will rehearse her work Today, This Spring with the Manitou Singers.

Larsen has a catalogue of over 200 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores and is also a 1994 Grammy award winner from her work as the producer of the CD: The Art of Arlene Augér.

The rehearsals and master class are open to the public.

Contact Pat Anfinson at 507-786-3032 or panfin@stolaf.edu.