Schubert Club Concerts

Artist Bios:    

Kim Sueoka is originally from the island of Kaua’i, Hawai’i. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance at the University of Evansville, Indiana, and a Masters Degree in vocal performance at the University of Minnesota. In 2005, she was awarded a Cultural Community Partnership Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to research the vocal traditions of ancient to early 20th century Hawai‘i and present a series of concerts and educational activities in the Twin Cities.  Sueoka was recently featured on The Owatonna Arts Center Chamber Music series, The Schubert Club’s Summer Songfest and Courtroom Concert series, Minnesota Guitar Society's Local Artist Concert series, and The American Composers Forum SoundCheck Concert series. She has performed and recorded works by Minnesota composers Libby Larsen, Abbie Betinis, Carol Barnett, Christopher Gable, Jeffrey Van, Todd Harper.  She is currently artistic director of Voce y Cuerdas Duo and sings with The Rose Ensemble and the Space Station Alpha Sextet.
 
Paul Berget was classically trained at the University of Minnesota (guitar and lute) and studied at the Royal College of Music, London with lute scholar Diana Poulton and the acclaimed lutenist Nigel North. Berget’s performances include such varied venues as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Guthrie Threatre (the production of As You Like It), ePolaris, The Rose Ensemble, Minstrelsy!, The Minnesota Lute Quartet (MiLQ), as well as appearing on Broadway in the musical Cyrano starring Christopher Plummer.  In addition to playing early music, he also performed in a variety of other musical styles: rock, modern classical and steel string guitar, and world music. Berget’s recordings appear on the Magnatune Label have received airplay on Skye.FM internet radio, as well as Minnesota Public Radio.

Cynthia Weber teaches classroom music in the Apple Valley school district and is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota at Mankato.  She has been the Alto I section leader at Westminster Presbyterian Church for the past four years.  She has soloed with the Minnetonka Choral Society, the Hamline University Chorus, the Kenwood Chamber Orchestra, the American Composer's Society and the Minnesota Orchestra Chamber Music Series at the Bakken.
 
Jane Lanctot premieres new works by area composers, performs in an18th century dance band, and plays for Cambodian traditional ceremonies.  She studied keyboard in NYC and Oberlin, and the two-stringed violin in Cambodia.  Last year she made her symphony orchestra conducting debut at Kent State, in exchange for helping underwrite a music scholarship.  She produced the recording Light From Heaven which won the Best Ethnic/World CD from Just Plain Folks.  She is presently working on a CD of Cambodian soap-opera music from the 1950s featuring the Cambodian music master Bun Leoung.

Polly Meyerding is an active performer and instructor in the Twin Cities.  President of the Upper Midwest Flute Association, she is also the creator and director of the Summer Flute Intensive and Flute Fling for students of all ages. She and her husband Russell Dedrick perform as the Dedrick Flute Duo and the Monarch Trio and she is also a member of the Arabesque and NorthWind Trios.  In addition, Polly is on the faculty of the Lutheran Summer Music Program.