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Polly Meyerding
Lecturer of Music Polly MeyerdingLecturer of Music
Website: www.pollymeyerding.com Polly Meyerding, a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, earned her Bachelor degrees in Flute Performance and Music Education at the University of Minnesota and the Master of Music degree and Performer's Certificate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She has studied with many outstanding flutists of our era, including Thomas Nyfenger, Bonita Boyd, Julia Bogorad-Kogan and Sidney Zeitlin. She has had lessons or participated in master classes with Marcel Moyse, Julius Baker, Keith Underwood, Michael Parloff, Adam Kuenzel, Barbara Leibundguth, and others. Polly has performed in the Spoleto USA Festival in South Carolina; the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy; the Schlosse Spiele Festival in Heidelberg, Germany; and has toured in France with a professional flute choir. Locally, she has played with the Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, VocalEssence (formerly Plymouth Festival Orchestra), Bach Society, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Minnesota Composers Forum, Symphony of the Lakes, Dale Warland Singers, Evita, Schubert Club, Thursday Musical, and numerous other large and small ensembles. She and her husband, flutist Russell Dedrick, perform together as the Dedrick Flute Duo, and with cello as the Monarch Trio. The Arabesque Trio is made up of harpist Andrea Stern with Polly on flute and cello. Polly is also a member of the NorthWind Trio with oboist Tina James and bassoonist Tim Wells. Currently the President of the Upper Midwest Flute Association (UMFA), Polly maintains a teaching studio in her home and is the creator and director of the Summer Flute Intensive and Flute Fling in St. Paul. She has conducted the Junior High Honors Flute Choir at the 2003 UMFA Flute Fest and the Senior High Honors Flute Choir in 2004. Polly will be the flute faculty member at the 2006 Lutheran Summer Music Program in residence at Gustavus Adolphus College. |
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