Andrea Een

Andrea Een is a violist/violinist and Associate Professor of Music at St Olaf College. [ [http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/music/faculty/strings.html St. Olaf College | Northfield, Minnesota, USA ] ] She is a founding member of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America and, in 2002, was awarded the St. Olav's Medal by H.M. Harald V of Norway for helping to reintroduce the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition to the United States (in the 1980s). She was presented with the medal in Urness Recital Hall by the Norwegian Consul General, Thor Johansen on 8 May 2002.

Een earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts (in violin performance and literature) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She was won the Ole Bull Award (from the eponyomous academy in Voss, Norway) in 1987, and was accredited as a Master Folk Artist Teacher by the Minnesota State Arts Board in 1998. Een is the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants and grew up in Mankato, Minnesota. She has had poetry and essays published, and has composed a number of pieces for the Hardanger fiddle, including "President Thomforde's" March [http://andreaeen.com/valley/audio/13Thomforde.mp3] which was performed for the first time during St Olaf College's Inauguration Weekend, April 2000. [ [http://www.hfaa.org/reference/archive_files/afficianado.html] ]

In 20 January 2007 Een demonstrated the Hardanger fiddle at the Highview Lutheran Church. [ [http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=537093448&channel=537541505 Andrea Een and the Hardanger Fiddle - Brightcove ] ]

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* [http://www.andreaeen.com andreaeen.com] - official site
* [http://www.hfaa.org Hardanger Fiddle Association of America] - official site