Catherine Victorsen
Email: cathy.victorsen@gmail.com
Job title
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Private Lesson Instructor in Harp
Music, College of Arts and Sciences
Highlight
Harp Performance
Started at Bethel
1992
Education
- Boston University - B.M. in Harp Performance, 1980
- University of Minnesota - M.M. in Harp Performance, 1983
Biography
Catherine S. Victorsen holds two degrees in Harp Performance; Boston University 1980, University of Minnesota Graduate School of Music 1983. She is a guest performer with various local orchestras in the Twin Cities area, is a professional free lance musician, and also teaches all levels of Harp from Beginner to Professional in a private studio. Her students have gone on to win awards in all styles of music. She enjoy teaching and helping her students become the best Harpists they can be, helping them love to play and share their music.
She was the Solo Principal Harpist for the Regensburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Regensburg, Germany from 1984-1991 and was a featured performer for the IV International Rio Harp Festival in Rio de Janeiro with Flautist Jane Strauman. She is a past North American First Place winner of the Welsh Eisteddfod Competition, in Instrumental Music. Her recordings include "Songs of the Irish Harpers", with Irish Tenor Fran O"Rourke, property of West German Radio, (WDR), "French Art Songs" with Soprano Judy Cummings, "Christmas Blessings" and "Glorious" with Cellist Sachiya Isomura and Flautist Barbara Leibundguth.
She has served on the Music Faculties of the Universitaet Regensburg, Germany, The Katholisches Musikschule, Regensburg, and in St Paul, MN, on the Faculties of Bethel University, Hamline University, and the University of Northwestern, St. Paul.
She has served as both a past President and Vice President of the American Harp Society- Minnesota Chapter. Catherine's teachers have included Edward Druzinsky, Chicago Symphony, Lucille Lawrence, Frances Miller, Nancy Allen. She has attended Summer Harp Programs at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Sewanee Summer Music Festival.
Courses taught
Private Harp Lessons
Awards
First Place Winner of the North American Welsh Eisteddfod Instrumental Competition
Grand Prize Winner of the Instrumental Competition at the Celtic Festival at Murphy's Landing.
American Harp Society - Minnesota Chapter Arch Award Winner for Arrangement for Solo Harp
Professional organizations, committees, and boards
American Harp Society (AHS)
American Harp Society, Minnesota Chapter - Former President and Vice President
Hobbies and interests
Walking, Gardening, Bible Study, "Cooking"
Areas of expertise
Harp Performance
Research interests
Arranging for Harp
Quote
"The Lord is my Shepherd." Psalm 23