Andrea Een
Andrea Een (born January 22, 1947) is a violinist, violist, Hardanger fiddler, poet, and Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College. Career. Een is a founding member of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America. In 2002, she was awarded St. Olav's Medal by H.M. Harald V of Norway for helping to reintroduce the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition to the United States. She received the Ole Bull Award, from the eponymous academy in Voss, Norway, in 1987, and was accredited as a Master Folk Artist Teacher by the Minnesota State Arts Board in 1998. She was a  professor of music at St. Olaf College from 1977-2012 and conducted the St. Olaf Chamber Orchestra (now Philharmonia) from 1977-1994. She was also a member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra from 1985-2013 and has performed with VocalEssence, directed by Philip Brunelle, since 1985. 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 CD, "President Thomforde's March," was written for and premiered  at St. 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. On January 20, 2007, Een demonstrated the Hardanger fiddle at the Highview Lutheran Church. Personal life. 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. Andrea Een Andrea