SOIVA Camp Teacher's Biographies
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Heta Priiki
Heta Priiki studied the piano at the Turku Conservatory with Elzbieta Guzek-Soini and graduated in 1991. She also attended several master classes including those with Matti Raekallio and Erik T. Tawaststjerna.
Heta works as a piano teacher and has an enthusiasm for chamber music which she practices actively in various ensembles. Currently she is employed as a piano teacher and an accompanist at the Länsi-Uusimaa School of Music.
Anna-Leena Rysä
Anna-Leena Rysä started her music studies at Oulu Conservatory. She continued flute studies at the Sibelius Academy with Mikael Helasvuo, Ilpo Mansnerus and Petri Alanko and graduated in 1995. In 1993-1994 she lived in Paris studying with Raymond Guiot.
Anna-Leena has worked as a principal flutist in the Lohja City Orchestra and Pori Sinfonietta and as a flutist in the Helsinki Philharmonic. Since 2000 she has been a principal teacher at the Music Institute of Pakila in Helsinki.
Markus Simon Fagerudd
Markus Simon Fagerudd studied composition at the Sibelius-Academy, Helsinki, with Olli Kortekangas, Kalevi Aho and Erkki Jokinen. He also studied from 1993-94 in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik with Wolfgang Rihm. Markus received his Master of Arts degree in 1995.
From 1997-2006 he was a composer-in-residence with the Lappeenranta City Orchestra and at the Lappeenranta Music institute. At present he is a composer-in-residence with the Vasa City Orchestra. Other teaching experience includes a position as arranging teacher at the Sibelius Academy 1994-95 and lector in music at the Theatre High School 2007-2008.
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Debora Harris
Debora Harris, Associate Professor of Flute at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota is an accomplished flutist in a broad range of musical styles. Principal flutist of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony for the past eleven years and the Berkshire Opera Company (2001 season). Ms. Harris has also performed as a recitalist and clinician throughout the United States. She has a special affinity for chamber music as well and, in addition to performing throughout the United States with guitarist Mike Coates in the Harris-Coates Duo. She holds a Master of Music degree and is completing a Doctor of Music from Florida State University where she studied with Charles DeLaney, and has received additional instruction from William Bennet.
Dr. Stephen Carlson
Dr. Carlson made his highly regarded New York debut as a solo recitalist in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. From 1995 to 2003, he appeared at Minnesota Valley Sommerfest (St. Peter, Minnesota) where he performed an array of solo and collaborative works. One-half of the McKay-Carlson Piano Duo, Carlson has also performed chamber music with members of the South Carolina Philharmonic as well as the Charleston and Greenville (SC) Symphonies. He was appointed to the Performing Artist Roster of the South Carolina Arts Commission and remains in demand as a performer, adjudicator and clinician. Prior to coming to Bemidji State where he is Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Piano Area, Carlson was a tenured faculty at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina.
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