Cheryl Kelley
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Totino Fine Arts Center, F2219
3003 Snelling Ave North
St. Paul, MN 55113
651-631-5218
Dr. Cheryl Kelley was President of the Minnesota Society for Music Teacher Education from 2000-2003 and is also served as Vice President. Before coming to University of Northwestern, Kelley taught grades K–8 vocal and general music in Omaha, NE, and St. Paul, MN.
Kelley has performed frequently with the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, VocalEssence, and the Minnesota Opera Orchestra. She has also performed with the Santa Fe Opera Company and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. She has recorded with the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
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651-631-5218
Catherine Victorsen’s teachers included Edward Druzinsky, principal harp with the Chicago Symphony; Lucille Lawrence, Marjorie Tyre, Nancy Allen, and Frances Miller.
Victorsen won the 1999 National Welsh Eisteddfod Instrumental Competition and has attended the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. She performed as a solo harpist of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Regensburg, Germany, from 1984-1991. While in Germany, she recorded a program of Irish harp music entitled The Songs of the Irish Harpers with vocalist Fran O’Rourke for West German Radio in Cologne.
Victorsen maintains an active private studio. She performs as a freelance musician throughout the Twin Cities.
Tenor, Bryan Beck is a 2016 graduate of The University of Northwestern – Saint Paul with dual degrees in Music and Psychology. Growing up in Eastern Europe to missionary parents, Bryan was exposed at an early age to great music and musicians in a cross cultural environment and has seen first-hand the universal language that music, and particularly singing, can be. While at Northwestern, Bryan studied with Carol Eikum and enjoyed a wide variety of musical performances, ranging from the NATS competition to soloing in Northwestern’s own Opera Workshop, and venturing out into the choral scene, singing not only with Northwestern’s own Northwestern Choir, but with various Chancel choirs, the Festival Choir for the Byzantine Choral Festival, Arthur’s Chorus (of which he was the founding conductor), and, more recently, continuing after university with both The Summer Singers and Two Rivers Chorale. When he is not singing or working, Bryan may be found engaging in a wide variety of hobbies, ranging from clock-making to boardgames, though teaching people how to sing well is by far one of his favorite activities. Bryan believes in helping his voice students uncover the voice they already have by teaching them grounded vocal technique and personal awareness to lead to vocal freedom and beauty of tone.