Citizenship: USA
Born in Minneapolis MN
Areas of Expertise:
Conductor
Professional Piano Recitalist and Accompanist
Specialties: Finnish music, recent American music, Hanns Eisler
Double Bassist
Piano and Double Bass Teacher
Festival Organizer, Personnel Manager, Concert Booker, Fund Raiser
Finlandia Foundation ‘Performer of the Year’, as Pianist, in 1999
CD ‘Piano Music from Finland’, produced in 2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Conducting and Music Direction
Collaborations: Productions and Programs
Piano Recitalist
Accompanying and Coaching
Double Bass
Management and Music Business
Professional Memberships
- Board Member, FinnFest USA (2005-2008)
- League of American Orchestras
- Member American Federation of Musicians/ Local 30-73
- Minnesota Music Teachers Association/ MNTA; Master Certificaton
- American Composers Forum
- International Society of Double Bassists
- Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft/ Berlin
Foreign Languages: German (fluent)
Italian diction, some Finnish, a smattering of French
EDUCATION:
Degrees:
Northwestern University, Evanston IL Master of Music
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN B. A.
Additional Study:
Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria
Aspen Music School/ Festival
Dartmouth Congregation of the Arts, Hanover, NH
ASOL Conducting Workshops: Minneapolis, St. Louis, Pittsburgh
Language Study:
Université Laval/ Quèbec, P.Q./ (French Language Study)
University of Minnesota (Finnish Language Study)
Braunschweig Technical University (Italian Language Study)
William Mitchell College of Law , St. Paul, MN (1984-85)
Conducting Professors:
Otmar Suitner: Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg (Three Summers)
Former GMB Staatskapelle Dresden, GMD Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Bernard Rubenstein: Northwestern University; later MD Tulsa Philharmonic
Charles Bruck: Monteux (Domaine) Conducting School. Former conductor ORT Paris, Strasbourg Symphony
Richard Burgin: Jacksonville University. 30 years Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and Associate Conductor
Additional Study: Pavle Despalj, Peter Schwarz, Aspen Conducting Faculty (Mester,
Blomstedt, Torkanowsky), ASOL Workshop Faculty (Daniel
Lewis), Berliner Dirigenten Werkstatt (1993)
Piano Professors:
Bernhard Weiser: Professor, University of Minnesota/ Minneapolis MN
James Douglas Johnson: Private Study; then professor, Augsburg College in Minneapolis
Double Bass Professors and Teachers:
James Clute: Bassist, Minnesota Orchestra and professor, Univ. of Minnesota
Joseph Guastafeste: Principal Bassist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Warren Benfield: Bassist, Chicago Symphony and professor at Northwestern Univ.
Lucas Drew: Dartmouth College, then professor at University of Florida/ Coral Gables
Stuart Sankey: Aspen Music School; then professor at University of Texas at Austin