Ron Rodman
Tracey Engleman
Becky Weis
Join guest conductor Ron Rodman, Professor of Music at Carleton College, as we celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day, the Finnish Centennial, and other things Nordic. Guest soloists include Tracey Engleman, Soprano, and Becky Weis, Hardanger Fiddle. The program includes Svendsen’s Norwegian Artists’ Carnival, Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, and Sibelius’ Finlandia. Featuring Soprano Tracey Engleman will be Sibelius’ Demante pa marssnon, Grieg’s Solveig’s Song and Varen. Becky Weis joins the concert with Concerto #2 for Hardanger Fiddle and Orchestra “3 Fjords” by Geirr Tveitt.
Ron Rodman is Dye Family Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, and Director of the Carleton Symphony Band. In addition to conducting the ensemble, he teaches in the low brass studio and courses in music theory and media studies. He is author of the books and articles on film and television music, and is currently working on a new edition of the Gillette symphonies for band. He is also founder and director of the North Star Cinema Orchestra, a theater orchestra that re-creates Vaudeville shows and accompanies early silent films from the early 1900s.
Tracey Engleman was most recently awarded the prestigious 2016 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Musicians. Ms. Engleman has performed operatic roles with the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Concert Opera, Skylark Opera, Music by the Lake, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and chamber music with Zeitgeist, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston Symphony. Oratorio and concert engagements include solo performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus, the Valley Chamber Chorale, Minnesota Choral Union, the Cannon Valley Orchestra, and the Rochester Choral Arts. Ms. Engleman is on the voice faculty at St. Olaf College where she teaches applied music, vocal pedagogy and vocal solo literature.
Becky Weis holds degrees from Macalester College and the University of Minnesota; additionally she was ethnomusicologist trained at the the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Weis plays for special dance groups that meet to preserve centuries-old regional dance forms, and is among a group of players developing the music to a concert level. She plays the Norwegian hardanger fiddle and the nyckelharpa, the Swedish key fiddle. Weis currently serves as Instructor in Music for Hardanger Fiddle at St. Olaf College.
Saturday, May 20, 7 pm- St. Ansgar’s Church, Cannon Falls
Sunday, May 21, 3 pm- St. John’s Lutheran Hall, Northfield
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