Schubert Club Concerts

Artist Bios:      

An accomplished soloist, Dr. Deanne Mohr has performed extensively in Canada and the Midwestern United States, including featured recitals in the Montreal Début concert series, the Banff Summer Festival, and the Regina Musical Club series, and has been recorded for broadcast on Radio-Canada and CBC Saskatchewan. She also appeared as guest soloist with the Regina Symphony Orchestra in their 1994-1995 season. She has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including prizes in the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association Concerto Competition, the Florence Bowes Scholarship Competition, and the CIBC National Music Festival.  The Saskatchewan Arts Board  and the Montréal foundation, Les amies de l`art, aided in funding her graduate work.  Recent concert appearances include two concerto performances with the Winona Symphony Orchestra:  Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, and Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, in which she collaborated with her husband, Dr. Eric Brisson.
    Dr. Mohr is currently an assistant professor at Winona State University, where she is very active as a pedagogue, chamber musician, accompanist and soloist.

Elizabeth Gomoll is Dolce's newest member and received her B. A. degree in performance after studying at St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota, where she studied with Sidney Zeitlin. In addition to her degree, she was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda and Omicron Nu societies. Elizabeth has been a member of the Rochester Orchestra since 1988, has played with the Minnesota Opera and Minneapolis Pops orchestras, and is an active freelance musician. She has served as Executive Director for Rochester Orchestra & Chorale and the Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestras, and as Director of Development for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies. Now she works with her husband, Roger Gomoll, to improve public radio pledge drives through their business, OnAirFundraising.

Dana Maeda graduated from St. Olaf College with a Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance and holds an M.A. degree from St. Mary's University. She studied oboe with Julie Madura and Rhadames Angelucci. Dana currently performs with the Rochester Orchestra and WindWorks Woodwind Quintet as well as freelancing in the Twin Cities area. She has performed with the Bloomington Symphony, Kenwood Chamber Orchestra, and the Minnesota Symphonic Winds. Dana is the oboe instructor at St. Olaf College.

Karen Hansen earned her B.A. from St. Olaf College and her M.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is principal clarinetist of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and Mississippi Valley Orchestra and has been under contract with the Rochester Orchestra since 1991. Karen is a former member of Harmonia Mundi, a professional double wind quintet. Her solo appearances with orchestra include Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie pour Clarinette, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Finzi's Clarinet Concerto, and Mendelssohn's Concert Piece No. 1 for clarinet and bassoon.

Vicki Wheeler is a graduate of Luther College and is an active freelance musician in the Twin Cities area. Her other regular "gigs" include playing French horn with the Victory Park Brass, Trio Brava, Borderline Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, and the Ruby Trio. She has performed with other professional groups including the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Como Park Pops Orchestra, Minnesota Sinfonia, and the Minnesota Opera. Vicki is the executive manager of the Lake Wobegon Brass Band and is a member of the alto horn section in this fine group. She also plays the Swiss alphorn and performs frequently at ethnic events and in school settings. When not behind a mouthpiece, you can find her sailing the waters of Lake Superior with her husband, Kurt. She currently teaches private horn lessons in her home in Minneapolis, much to the delight of Wally, the standard poodle puppy.

Ford Campell graduated from St. Olaf College with a Bachelor of Music degree in bassoon performance. After studying bassoon at the University of Southern California, he spent a year as the bassoonist with a full-time woodwind quintet, the Amabile Chamber Players, in Jamaica. Since 1986, Ford has been the principal bassoonist in the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with Kenwood Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, and Bill Fegan Productions Touring Company. Ford is a third grade teacher in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) (Composer of Quintet for Winds in G Minor)
Born in Bordeaux in 1844, Paul Taffanel studied flute and composition at the Paris Conservatory and enjoyed a steady rise in fame as a flute virtuoso. Joining the staff of the Conservatory in 1893, he exerted an enormous influence on several generations of flutists and is widely regarded as the father of the modern French school of flute playing. His Quintet in G Minor for Winds is a study in refinement and elegance, traits that stand in stark contrast to the bold rhetoric of the late 19th-century German music. A Washington Post critic described Taffanel's quintet in the following terms: "beguiling in its coloristic devices and loaded with arresting ideas, the piece played like a sequence of 19th-century opera interludes, full of illicitly trysting lovers, boastful village swains and troublemaking sprites."