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Daniel
Baldwin, conductor
Professor of Music
563.387.1692
baldwida@luther.edu
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Daniel
Baldwin has served since 1997 as Director of Orchestral Activities at Luther College. In addition to his work
as conductor of the Luther
College Symphony
and Chamber
Orchestras and the Opera Workshop, Dr. Baldwin teaches first-year
music theory and conducting. He holds the Bachelor of Music (cello) from Furman University
and Master of Music (cello) and Doctor of Musical Arts (instrumental
conducting) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to his arrival at Luther, Dr. Baldwin was an Associate Professor of
Music and Director of Orchestras at Central
Washington University
in Ellensburg, Washington.
Baldwin received his formal training in string pedagogy as a teacher in the University of Texas String
Project, perhaps the most comprehensive program of its kind
in North America. Phyllis Young, director of
the String Project for 35 years, was Baldwin’s cello teacher during his
studies at the University
of Texas. He studied
conducting with Henry Charles Smith, Cornelius Eberhardt, Sung Kwak, Walter
Dulcoux, and Fiora Contino.
Baldwin has also served as the Musical Director of the Central Kentucky Youth
Orchestras and the Transylvania Youth Orchestra of the Brevard (NC) Music Center, the largest summer music
festival in the South. A 1991 conducting fellow of the Conductor’s Institute
of the University
of South Carolina and
formerly a cellist with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Dr. Baldwin
maintains an active schedule as clinician, adjudicator, and guest
conductor. In April 2007 Daniel Baldwin accepted the position of
Musical and Artistic Director of the Lake Chelan Bachfest in Chelan, Washington. On three occasions since 1997 he has
traveled to Europe with the Luther College Symphony Orchestra, enjoying
month-long January residencies in Vienna, Austria and performing in such venues as the
Bruckner Conservatory in Linz
and the Vienna Konzerthaus. The Luther College Symphony tours annually
in the US;
since 1997, Daniel Baldwin and the Luther orchestra have completed seven
major American tours, performing in at least twenty states.
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Virginia
Strauss, violin
Professor of Music
563.387.1266
strausvi@luther.edu
Jubal
Fulks, violin
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Music
563.387.2209
fulkju01@luther.edu
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Dr.
Virginia Strauss has taught violin and chamber music at Luther
College (Decorah, Iowa, USA) since 1975. Her teachers
have included David Schneider, Paul Zukofsky, and Leonard Posner, former
Concert Master of the MBC Radio Symphony Orchestra under Toscanini. Ms.
Strauss in an active recitalist and a founding member of the Oneota Chamber
Players, an ensemble which is heard on public radio and television, as well
as in live performances throughout the United States. She also performs
as Concertmaster of the LaCrosse (WI) Symphony Orchestra. Professor Strauss
is coeditor with her husband, Dr. John F. Strauss, of over a dozen works by
Johann Baptist Vanhal, Georg Friedrich Fuchs, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel for
publishers Doblinger and H. Anderle (Vienna,
Austria), and
of the complete chamber music of Walter Rabl for A-R Editions (USA).
Violinist JUBAL FULKS is an
award-winning artist who has performed to critical acclaim in the United
States and Europe. A specialist in both contemporary and Baroque
repertory, he has performed as soloist with orchestras in New York, North
Carolina, and Michigan and has been heard on National Public Radio's
"Performance Today." He has also performed chamber and orchestral
music at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and
with the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. As a recitalist,
he has appeared at numerous summer festivals and concert series in the United
States and has toured extensively in Europe with orchestras and chamber
groups.
Dr. Fulks holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in violin performance from
the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where his principal
teacher was the late Mitchell Stern. While there, he won the
prestigious Ackerman Prize for Excellence in Performance and performed the
Berg Violin Concerto with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra under the baton
of Gunther Schuller. A winner of national honors from the American String
Teachers Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs, he has been
awarded fellowships with Aspen Music Festival's Contemporary Ensemble and the
New York Institute and Festival for Contemporary Music.
Recently appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at Luther College in
Decorah, Iowa, Dr. Fulks has taught at the State University of New York-Stony
Brook, Michigan Technological University, and conducts master classes at
universities across the United States. During the summer months he is a
senior faculty member at the Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vermont and
also teaches and coaches at Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vermont
for the Vermont Youth Orchestra. He currently performs with Luther
faculty across the midwest, in the San Francisco Bay Area with Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra, and maintains an active recording and national recital
schedule.
Recordings of Jubal Fulks:
Sergei
Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 115
Johann
Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
John
Cage: Six Melodies for Violin and Piano
Daniel Schlosberg, piano
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Spencer
Martin, viola
Associate Professor of Music
563.387.2424
martsp01@luther.edu
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Spencer
Martin has performed and taught at music festivals throughout the
U.S., Canada, Israel, and Europe as both violist and conductor. An active chamber and orchestral musician,
he has appeared as guest violist with the Pro Arte String Quartet and the
Amelia Piano Trio. He has served as
Principal Violist in the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and also frequently performed
in the viola sections of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony
Orchestra, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Chamber
Orchestra.
In January 2007 Spencer
made his Viennese debut at the Konzerthaus in performances of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy with the Luther
College Symphony Orchestra. Also an
avid proponent of Baroque music, Spencer received a grant to study for three months
during the summer of 2006 in Germany,
where he worked with Baroque violinist Bernhard Forck and violist Barbara
Westphal.
Spencer received the Bachelor of Music degree cum laude from Butler
University, the Master of Music
degree from Wichita State University,
and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. His principal teachers have included Korey
Konkol and Catherine Consiglio.
A former member of the music faculty at the University of Alabama,
Spencer Martin joined the Luther
College string faculty
in the spring of 2002. During the
summer months he enjoys teaching at Lutheran Summer
Music Academy
and Festival.
Recordings
of Spencer Martin with Du Huang, piano:
Manuel
de Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole: Polo
Du Huang, piano
Rebecca
Clarke: Morpheus
Du Huang, piano
Giovanni
Pandolfi Mealli: Sonata “La Biancuccia” Op. 4, No. 4
Spencer Martin,
Baroque violin
Kathryn
Reed-Maxfield, harpsichord
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Eric
Kutz, cello
Associate Professor of Music
563.387.1220
kutzer01@luther.edu
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Cellist Eric Kutz has captivated audiences across both North
America and Europe. He has been on the Luther College
faculty since 2002 as Assistant Professor of Music, where he maintains a
large cello studio. He is active as a
teacher, a chamber musician, an orchestral musician, and a soloist. His diverse collaborations cut across
musical styles, and have ranged from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to jazz great Ornette
Coleman. Mr. Kutz is also a founding
member of the Murasaki Duo, a cello and piano ensemble that is in residence
at Luther College.
The Murasaki Duo, which consists of Mr. Kutz and Canadian
pianist Miko Kominami, toured Scandinavia in
2005. Advocates for new music, the Duo
actively commissions new works, in addition to performing the classics. The Duo recently released its debut compact
disc on the Centaur Records label; this disc was reviewed by the Journal
of the Atlanta Audio Society as “ebullient” and “brilliant
throughout.” The Duo has performed at
leading festivals, such as the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival,
the Icicle Creek Music
Center, Malibu Friends
of Music, and Lutheran Summer Music, and it has repeatedly been broadcast on
Iowa Public Radio’s program, “Know the Score.” Hailed as “perfect throughout the evening .
. . two highly gifted musicians,” by the Danbury News Times, the Duo
regularly performs on chamber music series throughout the nation.
As an orchestral musician, Mr. Kutz summers in Chicago as a member of the Grant Park
Symphony’s cello section. He has also
appeared in the section of the New York Philharmonic. He has been principal cellist of the
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and the Juilliard Orchestra, and he has
performed under the batons of Sir Georg Solti, Kurt Masur, and Seiji Ozawa.
For four years prior to his arrival at Luther College,
Mr. Kutz was the cellist of the Chester String Quartet, in residence at
Indiana University South Bend. He
performed over 100 concerts during his tenure with the Quartet, and with them
he gave concert tours of Switzerland,
England, and Canada. He may be heard with them on the Crystal
Records label.
In 1997 Mr. Kutz traveled to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow as a visiting
artist, performing new chamber works by American composers. Other performance highlights include a tour
of Germany
and a concert in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall as part of Lincoln Center’s
Mozart Bicentennial celebration. Mr.
Kutz has premiered over two-dozen works, and has been broadcast live on WQXR
and WNYC, both of New York City,
as well as nationally on PBS television’s Live from Lincoln Center.
Mr. Kutz received his Bachelor of Music degree magna cum
laude from Rice
University, where he
studied with Norman Fischer. His
Master and Doctor’s degrees are from the Juilliard
School in New York City, where he was a scholarship
student of Joel Krosnick. He performs
on a cello by Raffaele Fiorini (Bologna,
1877).
Recordings
of Eric Kutz:
Dmitri
Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for Cello
and Orchestra, Op. 107 – second mvt. excerpt
Luther College Symphony Orchestra
Daniel
Baldwin, conductor
Frederic
Chopin: Polonaise Brilliante, Op. 3
(excerpt)
Miko Kominami,
piano
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Rolf
Erdahl, double bass
Adjunct Faculty in Music
563.387.1562
erdaro01@luther.edu
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Rolf
Erdahl, double bass, plays with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and
subs for the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Minnesota
Opera. He teaches bass at Luther College and at the Lutheran Summer Music
Academy and Festival. Previously Principal Bass of the Winnipeg Symphony and
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, he has subbed with the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra, and performed with the Breckenridge Music Festival, Fort Wayne
Philharmonic, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony, Bergen
Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Miami Beach Basstet, and White Noise
Chamber Players. He has taught bass at the University of Manitoba, Ball State
and Wichita State Universities, the Sewanee Music Festival, and the North
Carolina Governor's School. He graduated from St. Olaf College, the University
of Minnesota, and the Peabody Conservatory. Fulbright and
Scandinavian-American Foundation Scholar studies in Norway culminated in his
doctoral dissertation on the music of Grieg. Eugene Levinson has been his
major teacher. He has also studied with Peter Lloyd, Bruce Bransby, Paul
Ellison, Hal Robinson, and James Clute.
Rolf and his wife, oboist Carrie Vecchione, present oboe/bass duo recitals
and educational programs. The Vecchione/Erdahl Duo's efforts have effectively
created a new duo literature for oboe/English horn and double bass. They
perform widely regionally and nationally. Their Pages of Music with Rolf and
Carrie educational
programs link music and children's literature for schools, libraries, and bookstores.
They are roster artists with Young Audiences of Minnesota, the
Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra's Community Engagement Program, and the St
Paul Chamber Orchestra's CONNECT Program to the schools. Awards include a
2006 American Composer's Forum Encore Grant supporting repeat performances of
new works, a 2007 Subito Grant in support of recording their debut duo CD, "It Takes Two . . ."
for Centaur Records, and a 2007 Jerome Composers Commissioning Program Grant
for a new work for oboe and bass by Margaret Griebling-Haigh.
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