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University of Illinois system.
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Andrea Een
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In 2002, she was awarded Saint Olav"s Medal by Her Majesty Harald V of Norway for helping to reintroduce the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition to the United States. She was a professor of music at Saint Olaf College from 1977-2012 and conducted the Saint Olaf Chamber Orchestra (now Philharmonia) from 1977-1994. She appears on their Grammy-nominated recording of Aaron Copland"s The Tender Land and Gramophone-winning Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten.
In 2004, she released an album of traditional and original compositions for Hardanger fiddle titled From the Valley.
One work from the Civil Defense, "President Thomforde"s March," was written for and premiered at Saint Olaf College Inauguration Weekend in April 2000. Een earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in violin performance and literature at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where she studied with Paul Rolland.
Her dissertation "Comparison of Melodic Variants in the Hardingfele Repertoire of Norway" was advised by ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl. Een is the granddaughter of Norwegian and German immigrants and grew up in Mankato, Minnesota.
Her brother is the composer and cellist Robert Een.
She has one son.
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Membership
Een is a founding member of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America. She was also a member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra from 1985-2013 and has performed with VocalEssence, directed by Philip Brunelle, since 1985.
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