LAWRENCE ARCHBOLD (Music History, Criticism, Organ) received the A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California (Berkeley). He has published a book and several articles and essays on both German Baroque and French Romantic organ music, given lectures at national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the American Guild of Organists, and performed over 100 organ recitals.

LAWRENCE BURNETT (Choral Music, Choral Conducting, African-American Music) received the B.M. degree in Vocal Music Education from Texas A & I University, the M.M. degree in Choral Conducting, Vocal Performance, and Vocal Pedagogy from Eastern New Mexico University, and the D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from the University of Texas. His professional background includes solo/stage work with numerous orchestras, choruses, and festivals throughout the country. In 1992 he was awarded the Governor's Award for African-Americans of Distinction in New York State. Dr. Burnett is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference, and the American Choral Directors Association for which he serves as National Chair of the Repertoire Standards Committee for Ethnic Music and Multicultural Perspectives. See more information about Lawrence Burnett.

ALEXANDER FREEMAN (Composition) received the B.M. in composition from the Eastman School of Music, the M.M. from Boston University, and the D.M.A from The Juilliard School. His composition teachers have included Bruce Reinoso, Robert Ward, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, David Liptak, Joseph Schwantner, Lukas Foss, Richard Cornell, Charles Fussell, Christopher Rouse, Eero Hämeenniemi, Magnus Lindberg, and Jouni Kaipainen. His music spans a wide range of styles and media and has been performed and recorded at home and abroad. Freeman has won awards from ASCAP, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Fulbright Foundation, among others. Recent commissions have been from The American Embassy, The Sibelius Academy, Hämäläis-Osakunnan Laulajat, and the West Point Band. Areas of interest and research include Sibelius, Finnish music, Americanism, Walt Whitman, and popular music. For more information on our newest faculty member, please visit his website at www.alexfreemanmusic.com.

STEPHEN KELLY (Music History, Jazz History) received the B.S. from Spring Hill College, the M.A. from Rutgers University, and the Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He has published editions of the music of Niccolo da Perugia and co-authored a video tape on the Medieval Monastery. His current research is in jazz reception and the music of Wynton Marsalis. Dr. Kelly served on the Board of Directors as Treasurer of the College Music Society from 1991 until 1995. In 1997 he was the Associate Dean of the College and was the Dean for Budget and Planning from 1998 to 2004.

JUSTIN LONDON (Music Theory, Aesthetics, American Popular Music) received the B.M. in Classical Guitar and the M.M. in Music Theory from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include rhythm and meter, music perception and cognition, the history of the Delta blues, and musical aesthetics. He has served on the executive boards of Music Theory Midwest, the Society for Music Theory, and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Professor London has contributed articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition) and the Cambridge History of Western Music Theory and Music and Cinema. His book on the psychology of musical meter, Hearing in Time, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. During the 2006-06 academic year, Professor London was a Visiting Scholar at the Cambridge University Centre for Music and Science under the auspices of a U.K. Fulbright Foundation Distinguished Scholars Lecturing/Research Grant. Professor London's personal website can be found at http://people.carleton.edu/~jlondon.

NICOLA MELVILLE (Piano) received the B.M. from the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), and the M.M., D.M.A., and the Performers Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Melville has commissioned and premiered many works by composers in the United States and her native New Zealand. She has recorded the complete piano rags of William Albright for the Equilibrium label; her most recent CD, released on Innova Recordings, features thirteen new commissions by award-winning composers from around the US, and is now available online at http://innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=334. As well as being an advocate for new music, her ongoing interests include interdisciplinary performances that combine music with other Arts in live performance.

RONALD RODMAN (Director of Symphony Band, Theory, Low Brass) received the B.Mus.Ed. from Indiana University, the M.M. degree in Theory from Georgia State University, and the Ph.D. in Music Theory from Indiana University. His research interests include Schenkerian analysis, musical semiotics, and music and the media. Dr. Rodman has contributed articles to the College Music Symposium, Journal of Music Theory, and Indiana Theory Review, as well as to the book Music and Cinema.

MELINDA RUSSELL (Ethnomusicology, Director of Karimba and Mbira Ensembles) received the B.A. from Simon's Rock Early College, the M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota, and the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. She brings to Carleton a rich background in ethnomusicology, focusing on a variety of musical traditions in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dr. Russell has published articles on reggae and musical taste, on the Macarena craze of the 1990s, and on choral music in an Illinois city, and coedited the books Community of Music and In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation. She was also the Book Review Editor for the journal Ethnomusicology, and has a new chapter coming out in the book Chorus and Community, edited by Karen Ahlquist (University of Illinois Press).

HECTOR VALDIVIA (Orchestration, Applied Strings, Chamber Music) received the B.M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and the M.M.A., M.M., and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His research interests include the music of Eugene Ysaye, Luisa Adolpha Le Beau, and Amy Beach. Dr. Valdivia recently recorded Beach's "Variations on Balkan Themes" with the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, Czech Republic. As a violinist, he performs with the Veblen Piano Trio and recently recorded several new works by Phillip Rhodes, Carleton's Composer-in-Residence.

BENJAMIN ALLEN (Voice) received the B.M.Ed. from Wartburg College. He has studied with C. Robert Larson, Donna Pegors, Lawrence Weller, and, in New York, with Bernard Taylor. He has performed as a soloist with numerous regional and national organizations including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Opera. He has taught at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the Minnesota Center for Arts Education, and is currently on the voice faculty of the International Music Camp and at Bethel University and Macalester College. He serves as choral composer and arranger as well as choir director at Peace Lutheran Church in Robbinsdale, MN. His current academic interest is in the study of the "cultural voice" to develop teaching techniques to serve the needs of international students who don't have experience with Western Vocal concepts. Ben is involved in the East African community in Minneapolis where he sings in the Minnesota Swahili Choir and is Board Chair for a non-profit agency, Compassionate Solutions for African Development (COSAD) which undertakes enterprise development using the African choir as the target community within which to develop and sustain enterprise projects.

GWEN ANDERSON (French Horn) has been a member of the Summit Hill Brass Quintet since 1976, which has released numerous CDs and performs regularly in the Twin Cities and outstate area. Anderson studied music at the University of Minnesota and the Eastman School of Music, and horn with Bruce Rardin, Verne Reynolds, and Kendall Betts. Ms. Anderson's career has taken its share of twists, however: her B.A. is in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota, and she is currently employed as a software engineer.

JACKSON BRYCE (Bassoon) received the A.B. from the Catholic University of America and the A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He studied with Kenneth Pasmanick, principal bassoonist of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bryce was a founding member of the Washington Camerata, a chamber orchestra devoted to the performance of new music, a member of the National Capital Woodwind Quintet, in residence at American University, and performed in Washington and on tour in the mid-Atlantic states. As a recitalist, soloist, and chamber and orchestral player, he has performed in Washington, Boston, the Twin Cities, and southern Minnesota.

LAURA CAVIANI (Jazz Piano) received the B.M. in Composition from Lawrence University and the M.M. in Improvisation from the University of Michigan. She also studied with renowned composer JoAnne Brackeen and at the Akiyoshidai International Art Village in Japan. Ms. Caviani has taught at St. John's University, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the University of St. Thomas, and many middle schools in Minneapolis through the "Harman How to Listen Program," an outreach program co-founded by Wynton Marsalis. Ms. Caviani has performed and recorded for over 15 years, including four highly acclaimed albums: Dreamlife, As One, Angels We Haven't Heard, and In Your Own Sweet Way. Ms. Caviani has also recorded and toured with the 2002 Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson (Concord Records) and with other greats such as Toots Theilemans, Bob Mintzer, and Dave Leibman. Laura Caviani's personal website can be found at: http://www.lauracaviani.com.

KEVIN CLEMENTS (Jazz Bass) received the B.A. in Music from the Conservatory of Music/University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he studied with Bruce Bransby and David Danesi. After performing with numerous jazz artists throughout this country and abroad, he settled in the Twin Cities in 1989, where he has become a staple in the jazz community. Clements currently performs and records regularly with the area’s top jazz artists.

ANNA CLIFT (Cello) received the B.M. from Indiana University, where she studied with Janos Starker, and the M.M. from SUNY-Stony Brook, where she studied with Bernard Greenhouse. In addition to teaching cello at Carleton and St. Olaf College, she frequently plays with the Minnesota Orchestra and other groups in the Twin Cities area.

LYNN DEICHERT (Trumpet) received the B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the M.M. from Boston University. He has been a member of the American Wind Symphony and has also attended the Tanglewood Music Festival Fellowship Program. His teachers include Roger Voisin, Charles Schlueter, Gene Young, and Clement Volpe. For the last fifteen years he has been a music contractor in the Twin Cities. His groups include Beacon Hill Brass, the Lynn Deichert Swing Band, and Stomp N' Dixie. He also tap dances, juggles, and plays the piano.

JOHN ELLINGER (Guitar, Lute, Director of Music Computer Lab, Music Technology, Music Fundamentals) received the B.A. from Carleton and has done graduate work at the University of Minnesota. He has developed significant Macintosh computer music software programs combining the Macintosh and MIDI synthesizers, which are used in the teaching of guitar and jazz improvisation.

ELIZABETH ERICKSEN (Violin, Viola) received the B.S. in Music Education and the M.M. in Violin Performance and String Literature from the University of Illinois. In addition to teaching at Carleton, she is also an instructor at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis. During the summer she serves as managing director and coach at the Sartory String Quartet Institute, which is operated through MacPhail. She was a founding member of the Sartory String Quartet and an orchestral member of the Plymouth Music Series, now called Vocal Essence, where she participated in a number of award-winning recordings. She has studied violin with Sol Turner, Virgin Farmer, Mary West, and Paul Rolland, and coached string quartets with Joseph Gingold and Abraham Skernick.

JANEAN HALL (Harpsichord, Organ, Beginning Piano) received the B.S. and B.A. in Music and Education from Concordia College, Seward Nebraska. Her areas of expertise are organ performance and harpsichord performance. Her principal teachers were Dr. Charles Ore, and Dr. Paul Manz. Janean has 35 years of experience as head organist, has played for over 300 weddings as well as funerals, and serves as a professional organist-at-large. She has appeared as harpsichordist for various Bach festivals, orchestra performances, and taught harpsichord literature and given harpsichord workshops over the past thirteen years at Carleton. She currently plays in a Faculty Baroque Trio. Janean teaches the Minnesota Music Listening Class for Waseca High School, and serves as a judge for the official test given to over 73 Minnesota high schools each January.

MARY HOROZANIECKI (Violin, Viola) received the B.M. from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Meadowmount School. She is a two-time fellowship winner at the Blossom Festival School, and is the 1993 recipient of the Master Teacher Award given by the Minnesota Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Currently, she serves on the faculties of Carleton, Macalester, and Augsburg Colleges in Minnesota and remains in demand as a teacher and clinician, giving master classes throughout the United States, including the prestigious String Academy at the Indiana School of Music. She gives many solo and chamber music recitals in the Midwest and New York City, and is a founding member of the Sartory String Quartet. Her mentors are Margaret Pardee, Emily Austin, Menaham Pressler, and the late Josef Gingold. Mary Horozaniecki's personal website can be found at: http://www.marybuddhorozaniecki.com.

KEN HUBER (Piano) received the B.M. and M.M. from Indiana University and has studied with Leon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebok, and Frank Mannheimer. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed hundreds of concerts throughout the United States, with frequent appearances in New York City. He often collaborates with opera singers of the Metropolitan, New York, and Vienna State Opera Companies. From 1968 to 1972 he served as pianist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., which included performances at the White House and State Department. In addition to private teaching, he has taught at Virginia Intermont, Westminster Choir, and Augsburg Colleges, and is sought after as a clinician and master teacher by colleges and universities.

MARTHA JAMSA (Flute) received the B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota and the M.M. in Flute Performance from Indiana University. During the past two decades she has been an active member of several major ensembles, including the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and the Dakota Wind Quintet, as well as a substitue flutist/piccoloist for the Minnesota Orchestra. She has taught flute at South Dakota State University, the University of Sioux Falls, Macalester College. She has also served on the Board of Directors for several organizations, including the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and the Upper Midwest Flute Association.

JAY JOHNSON (Percussion, African Drum) received the B.F.A. and M.M. degrees in Percussion with an emphasis on Ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota. He has performed dozens of world premieres at major festivals and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe. He can be heard locally in concert or on recordings with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera Company, Plymouth Music Series, Dale Warland Singers, and others.

PATRICIA KENT (Voice) received the D.M.A. in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota and has performed in the Midwest and on the East Coast in repertoire from medieval mystery plays with alumni of the New York Pro Musica, to concert work such as Verdi's Requiem with the Wooster (OH) Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Mahler's Second Symphony with the Duluth Superior Symphony, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Christopher Hogwood. Kent has also performed as soprano soloist with the SPCO under Joel Revzen, Hugh Wolff, and John Harbison, and with the Minnesota Orchestra under Joseph Silverstein. She has sung with many regional organizations, including the Lyra Concert, the Rochester Symphony, the Macalester Festival Chorale, the Oratorio Society of Minnesota, and Ex Machina. In 1999, Kent made her European debut in the London performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah under conductor Benjamin Pope. Patricia has recorded a compact disc of the songs of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, with pianist Robert Koopmann, OSB entitled "All in the Family." She has also recorded a CD of French chansons with pianist Roderick Kettlewell.

MERILEE KLEMP (Oboe, English Horn) received the B.A. in Music Education from Augsburg College, the M.A. in Musicology from the University of Minnesota, and the D.M.A. in Oboe Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She performs regularly with the Minnesota Opera, the Plymouth Music Series, and is a frequent recitalist and soloist in the Twin Cities. Her principal teacher was Richard Killmer and she received a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for further study with John Mack.

MARK KREITZER (American Folk Instruments) has an MA in German Literature and another in French Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught German at Bethel University, the University of St. Thomas, and the University of Minnesota. His musical career began with piano studies as a boy, switching to guitar when he heard the Beatles. Since then he also has become proficient with the banjo, mandolin, mandola, mandocello, fiddle, Dobro and bass. In addition to his award winning instrumental skills, he is an award winning songwriter, and is currently teaching songwriting at Cretin-Derham High School in St. Paul. Mark performs solo, and is a member of the Middle Spunk Creek Boys and the gypsy jazz band Clearwater Hot Club. He can be seen sitting in with many other local bands, including Becky Schlegel, Honeysuckle Rose and the Parisota Hot Club. His songs have been recorded by Joe Carr and Alan Munde, Becky Schlegel, the Middle Spunk Creek Boys, and on his solo recording "Pages," on the Okey-Dokey record label. Furthermore, Mark owns his own publishing company, Harvest Hop Musik. Mark Kreitzer's personal website can be found at: http://markkreitzer.com

MARK KRUSEMEYER (Recorder) received the Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), and has studied with Sue Carduelis (formerly Susan Prior) and Steve Silverstein, and in workshop or master class settings with Paul Leenhouts, Michael Lynn, and Marion Verbruggen. Dr. Krusemeyer has performed locally, and in Calgary as part of the Trio d'Accord and with the Calgary Bach Festival Society. He has made numerous transcriptions for recorder ensembles, especially the music of Bach.

CONNIE MARTIN (Bass) received the B.A. from Whitworth College and the M.M. from the University of Illinois. She is a core member of the Minnesota Operate Orchestra and performs regularly with the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and substitutes with the Minnesota Orchestra. Her primary teachers include Peter Lloyd and Jim Clute of the Minnesota Orchestra.

MARY MARTZ (Voice) received the B.S. in Music Education and Performance with a minor in Speech Therapy from Moorhead State University. She has an extensive performance background in opera theater 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 State Summer School of the Arts, School of Choral Studies, the St. Olaf College summer music camp, and is an Adjunct Instructor of Voice at St. Olaf College.

MATTHEW McCRIGHT (Piano) has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe as piano soloist and chamber musician. He has devoted his life to performing works by living composers and has thrilled audiences and critics alike with an imaginative repertoire that spans both the traditional and a wide range of contemporary works. He has premiered numerous new pieces, many written for him, and has collaborated with such composers as Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Michael Gordon, Mary Ellen Childs, Julia Wolfe, Evan Ziporyn, Garrett Sholdice, Alvin Lucier, Linda Buckley and Judith Lang Zaimont among many others. McCright currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a member of the Minneapolis based RenegadeEnsemble and serves as the principal keyboardist while maintaining an active freelance schedule as one of the Twin Cities most sought after pianists. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, McCright’s festival participation includes Bang on a Can at MassMOCA, Printing House Festival of New Music (Dublin), Late Music Festival (UK), Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival, Kodály Institute, Perilous Night, Fringe, Spark Festival of Electronic Music, Seward Arts, Duquesne University's Summer Music Institute, Music 2000, Minnesota Composers Alliance, Grandin Festival, and was accepted to the Chautauqua Music Institute. McCright completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota, under the tutelage of Lydia Artymiw. In addition to private study in New York City with Lisa Moore, he also holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and earned his Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance, Magna Cum Laude, from Westminster College. For more information please visit: www.matthewmccright.org.

ELINOR NIEMISTO (Harp) received the B.M. and M.M. in Harp from the University of Michigan and shortly thereafter went to Nova Scotia where she played in the Atlantic Symphony in Halifax. She began teaching at Carleton in 1981 and currently holds endowed chairs in both the Rochester and La Crosse Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Niemisto also teaches harp at St. Olaf and Luther Colleges and Suzuki Harp in Northfield and Owatonna. She performs regionally in choirs, churches, and community orchestras.

NINA OLSEN (Clarinet) received the B.M. in Performance from the University of Denver, the M.M. in Woodwinds, clarinet specialist, from the University of Michigan, and the D.M.A. in Clarinet Performance from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, and has also performed with other area groups including the Minnesota Sinfonia, the Duluth-Superior Symphony, and Thursday Musical. She is on the faculty of the MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis, where she is also chair of the Winds, Brass, and Percussion Department.

RICK PENNING (Voice) received the B.A. in Music from Luther College, the M.M. from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the D.M.A. from the University of Minnesota. He has a wide range of performing experience including operatic roles and concert appearances with leading American regional opera companies and orchestras. He can be heard on recordings with the Plymouth Music Series Ensemble Singers (now Vocal Essence) and the Cathedral Choir of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral (Minneapolis). He has appeared on “A Prairie Home Companion” as well as Minnesota Public Radio, Dakota Public Television, and CBS’ television program “CBS Sunday Morning.” His voice students have won awards and have gone on to perform with professional opera companies and orchestras across the country and overseas. Besides a busy home voice studio, he is also on the faculty of Augsburg College.

THOMAS ROSENBERG (Cello) is nationally known as a dynamic performer, chamber music coach, and teacher. A resident of Saint Paul, Minnesota, he was awarded the prestigious McKnight Performing Artist Fellowship Award in 2004. He also has received top chamber music prizes at the Munich (Germany), Portsmouth (England) and Chicago Discovery Competitions, and is a three-time Naumburg Chamber Music Award finalist. Mr. Rosenberg was a founding member of the highly acclaimed Chester String Quartet with whom he made numerous recordings and for twenty years, appeared on concert stages and live radio coast to coast in the United States, Canada, Central America and Europe. He also was solo cello of the New York Chamber Ensemble performing in all of the major concert halls in NYC and has appeared at many music festivals. He is on the faculties of the University of Minnesota as Coordinator of the String Chamber Music Program and coaching numerous ensembles, Macalester College teaching cello and at Carleton College teaching cello, coaching chamber music and performing in the Veblen Trio. Recipient of the 2003-4 “Master Studio Teacher Award” from the Minnesota chapter of the American String Teachers Asssociation, he also has been named "Arts Educator of the Year" by the Michigan-Indiana Arts and Sciences Council. Since 1981, he has been Artistic Director of the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (www.Fischoff.org) through which he is a recipient of the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award. Tom is a graduate of Oberlin and the Eastman School of Music where he was teaching assistant to both Paul Katz and Laurence Lesser. Other teachers include Richard Kapuscinski, Alan Harris, Alta Mayer, and for chamber music, members of the Budapest, Juilliard, Tokyo, Guarneri, and Cleveland Quartets.

DAVE SAUNDERS (Saxophone, Jazz Improvisation) received the B.A. from Carleton and the M.M. in Saxophone and Jazz Studies from Indiana University. He has taught saxophone at the University of Indiana, presented workshops and clinics in jazz improvisation at Carleton and elsewhere, and recently free-lanced in the New York City area.

DAVID SINGLEY (Jazz and Blues Guitar, Jazz Improvisation) received the B.M. from the Berklee College of Music and the M.M. from Indiana University. He is an active performer in both the jazz and pop worlds. His long list of performing credits includes: (pop) Perry Como, Debbie Reynolds, Gene Pitney, Mary Wells, Roger Williams; (jazz) Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Mintzer, James Moody, Arturo Sandoval, Phil Woods, and Tal Farlow. He has also performed in the orchestra pit of numerous Broadway shows including: The Lion King, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Fosse, Hairspray, Sunset Boulevard, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donnie Osmond. Singley has also performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera Company, and has appeared on National Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion. He is also a published jazz composer and arranger, with works in the catalogs of Kjos Music, Increase Music, and reallygoodmusic.com. His guitar playing can also be heard on countless commercial jingles and over a dozen jazz CD's that have been produced in the Twin Cities. His 1997 solo CD How My Heart Sings is still in print and available at many retail and online outlets, including the Carleton Bookstore. In addition to his teaching at Carleton, David is also on the faculty at the McNally-Smith College of Music in Saint Paul.

DAVID WHETSTONE (Raga, Sitar) is a sitarist-disciple of the renowned Ustad Vilayat Khan, having begun his studies in 1971 with Brian Silver. In 1988 he received an American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship, and has collaborated and toured for over 20 years with poet Robert Bly and Rumi translator Coleman Barks, resulting in numerous recordings and films. In 1992 he co-founded and was Artistic Director of Minneapolis' Ragamala Music and Dance Theater, supplying the entire repertoire from 1992-1997. In 1999 he premiered excerpts of his new opera, White Nights, with the Rochester (MN) Orchestra and Chorus, soloist Dan Dressen, and conductor Jere Lantz.

MARCIA WIDMAN (Piano) received the B.M. in Piano from Morningside College and the M.M. in Piano from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Benning Dexter. She taught piano at Eastern Michigan University and St. Olaf College before coming to Carleton in 1975. She recently attended the Taubman Institute five times and coached with Taubman.

ANNE MAYER (Piano, 1959-99) received the B.A. in Music from the College of Wooster and the M.M. in Piano and Music Literature from the Eastman School of Music. At Carleton, she chaired the piano division and was co-chair of the Music Department for fourteen years. In addition to piano, she taught theory, piano literature, keyboard harmony, and coached chamber music. She has performed frequently in the Twin Cities and Duluth and given recitals at many colleges, conferences, and on educational television and National Public Radio. Mayer has also performed in various chamber ensembles and accompanied numerous instrumentalists and vocalists in concert and recording. She is a performing member of Thursday Musical and the Mannheimer Piano Festivals, and has served on the Education Advisory Board of the National Piano Foundation and as an officer of the College Music Society, and has published articles for both organizations.

HARRY NORDSTROM (Violin, Viola, 1950-1990) received the B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Minnesota and the M.M. and D.M.A. in Performance and Pedagogy from the Eastman School of Music. He played first violin in the then-Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos and Antal Dorati. At Carleton, Dr. Nordstrom was the founder and first violin of the Collegium String Quartet. His teachers have included Robert Quick, Louis Krasner, Millard Taylr, Max Rostal, and Kato Havas.

WILLIAM WELLS (Director of Choral Activities, 1966-1993) received the B.A. from Occidental College, M.A. from the University of California (Berkeley), and the D.M.A. from Stanford University. During his twenty-seven years at Carleton, Dr. Wells conducted the Carleton Choir and Chamber Singers and taught courses in the music of Bach, Haydn, Stravinsky, Wagner’s “The Ring,” and the Survey of Music Literature and Choral Conducting. He served as co-chair of the Music Department from 1973 to 1982 and founded the Carleton Contemporary Ensemble in 1972. Dr. Wells also helped organize various music festivals honoring Stravinsky; Haydn; Bach-Handel; and Music of the Americas. Under his direction the Carleton choral groups recorded music by Carleton Professor Phillip Rhodes, Steven Mackey, and Schubert (with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra). Each spring, the Chamber Singers performed staged productions of Gilbert & Sullivan and beginning in 1986, presented annual cabaret shows of music by Weill, Sondheim, Gershwin, Bernstein, and others.

PHILLIP RHODES joined the Carleton faculty as Associate Professor and Composer-in-Residence in 1974. He was appointed the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities in 1981. Born in western North Carolina in 1940, he received degrees from Duke University and the Yale University School of Music. He developed a research interest in traditional Appalachian music which provided not only the basis for several courses he taught at Carleton, but served as important source material for his compositions as well. Music with Appalachian roots is also the focus of his recently released CD, With A Mountain View, which has received international acclaim. Professor Rhodes has been the recipient of numerous commissions and awards including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Bush Foundation Fellowship for Artists, the National Opera Association Prize (The Gentle Boy), two Fromm Foundation (Harvard) commissions, and two McKnight Foundation Fellowships. His compositions are published by C.F. Peters, Theodore Presser, EMI, Schott, J. Ballerbach, and Earthsongs Music. Recordings of his works appear on labels including Centaur Records, CRI, First Edition (Louisville), Innova, and New World Records. Major performances of his works include those by the Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center. A citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters describes Rhodes' music as "radiating an evocative warmth of expression, while also exhibiting a highly disciplined approach to matters of form, continuity and textual setting." Phillip Rhodes' personal website can be found at: www.prhodescomposer.com.

After graduating from Yuma Union High School in Arizona, Carole attended Arizona Western College before pursuing a career in business management. Before coming to Carleton in 1979, Carole was employed by Ford Motor Company, Prudential Life Insurance Company, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At Carleton she served as Secretary to the Associate Dean of the College and also Assistant to the Dean of the College before accepting her current position in the Department of Music in 1990.

LAWRENCE HENRY (Staff Accompanist) received the B.A. in Music from Carleton and the M.M. in Choral Conducting from the University of Minnesota. He has studied accompanying with John Wustmann and performed at the Bach Aria Festival in Stony Brook, N.Y. He has conducted choral groups at Carleton on an Andrew Mellon Fellowship and conducts the Carleton Alumni Choir. He has also served as Music Director of the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre. Currently he is an active coach/accompanist, organist and conductor in the Twin Cities, and has been Staff Accompanist at Macalester College for the last nine years.

GAO HONG (Chinese Instruments) began her career as a professional musician at age 12. She graduated with honors from the Central Conservatory of Music, China's premier music school, where she studied with pipa master Lin Shicheng. She has received numerous awards and honors, including First Prize in the Hebei Professional Young Music Performers Competition and an Asian Pacific Award, and fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Jerome Foundation. As a composer she has received commissions from the American Composers Forum, Twin Cities Public Television, and the Walker Art Center. She has performed throughout Europe, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and the United States and has participated in such events as the Lincoln Center Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, and the International Festival. She has performed countless United States and world premieres of pipa concerti with organizations such as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Heidelberg Philharmonic, and the Women's Philharmonic (San Francisco). Hong Gao's personal website can be found at http://www.chinesepipa.com.

SUSAN BEEBY (Music Collections Curator) received a B.A. in Music History and Russian language from St. Olaf College, and a M.L.I.S. from Dominican University/College of St. Catherine with course work focusing on music libraries. Previously, Susan was the Music Librarian at WCAL, the radio station formerly owned by St. Olaf College, and she continues to work as the Northfield Youth Choir’s Music Librarian. She is a certified Music Together teacher and enjoys leading early childhood music classes in the community.