2019-2020 Season Soloists & Guest Artists
Svend Rønning, Violin
January 2020, Korngold Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
Svend Rønning is Chair of the String Division at Pacific Lutheran University and Professor of Music.
Dr. Rønning is a native of the Pacific Northwest and holds his own undergraduate degree in violin performance from PLU, which he earned in 1989. He subsequently earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.
He is of the most active violinists in the Puget Sound, serving as Concertmaster of Symphony Tacoma, as well as performing frequently as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. Dr. Rønning is also Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Series, Tacoma's award winning producer of chamber music concerts and chamber music educational programs.
Svend Rønning has appeared in venues around the world, including the Aspen, Eastern, Harkness, Jerusalem, Methow, Pacific, Rhode Island, Spoleto and Wintergreen Music Festivals and has served as Concertmaster of various orchestras including the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Spoleto U.S.A. Chamber Orchestra, and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra. As soloist, he has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Charlottesville Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, and Symphony Tacoma. His prior teaching appointments have included faculty positions at the Eastern Music Festival, the Shenandoah Conservatory, and the University of Virginia.
Dr. Rønning's teachers include Syoko Aki, Sidney Harth, Jaap Schröder, and Ann Tremaine. His own students have gone on to other music programs at Indiana University, Boston University, the North Carolina School for the Arts, Western Washington University, the University of Virginia, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Yale School of Music as well as a Fulbright Fellowship. Several students now occupy positions in such organizations in leading orchestras around the United States, with some former students active as popular and folk musicians and soloists. Others teach Music in public and private schools around the country while many others are employed in diverse non-music careers from Film Direction to Law to Medicine.
Dr. Rønning is a native of the Pacific Northwest and holds his own undergraduate degree in violin performance from PLU, which he earned in 1989. He subsequently earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.
He is of the most active violinists in the Puget Sound, serving as Concertmaster of Symphony Tacoma, as well as performing frequently as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. Dr. Rønning is also Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Series, Tacoma's award winning producer of chamber music concerts and chamber music educational programs.
Svend Rønning has appeared in venues around the world, including the Aspen, Eastern, Harkness, Jerusalem, Methow, Pacific, Rhode Island, Spoleto and Wintergreen Music Festivals and has served as Concertmaster of various orchestras including the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Spoleto U.S.A. Chamber Orchestra, and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra. As soloist, he has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Charlottesville Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, and Symphony Tacoma. His prior teaching appointments have included faculty positions at the Eastern Music Festival, the Shenandoah Conservatory, and the University of Virginia.
Dr. Rønning's teachers include Syoko Aki, Sidney Harth, Jaap Schröder, and Ann Tremaine. His own students have gone on to other music programs at Indiana University, Boston University, the North Carolina School for the Arts, Western Washington University, the University of Virginia, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Yale School of Music as well as a Fulbright Fellowship. Several students now occupy positions in such organizations in leading orchestras around the United States, with some former students active as popular and folk musicians and soloists. Others teach Music in public and private schools around the country while many others are employed in diverse non-music careers from Film Direction to Law to Medicine.
Laura Loge, Soprano
Fall 2019, songs from Grieg's Peer Gynt
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Soprano Laura Loge has been hailed for her "luminous stage presence" and "characterful and versatile voice." Upcoming and current engagements include appearances as soprano soloist with the Thalia Symphony in songs from Greig's Peer Gynt, with the Sammamish Symphony in Beethoven's incidental music to Egmont, half of Grieg's Complete Songs with the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society, and numerous Norwegian song concerts throughout the Northwest and Minnesota. Opera roles include Violetta (La Traviata), Musetta (La Bohème), Micaëla (Carmen), Mother (Hansel & Gretel), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Lisa (La Sonnambula), La Fée (Cendrillon), Pousette (Manon) Lucy (The Telephone), Guadalena and Ninetta (La Perichole), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Second Lady (Magic Flute), Goddess Diana (Iphigénie en Aulide), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica) and Miss Silverpeal (The Impresario). She has performed as the soprano soloist in Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Neilsen's Third Symphony, Fauré's Requiem, Grieg's Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, Schumann's Mass and Requiem, Handel's Messiah, and Verdi's Requiem. Laura specializes in Nordic art song, having performed across the United States and in Norway, including in Edvard Grieg's villa. She has produced two albums of Nordic song, including Breaking the Language Barrier: Songs in Norwegian and Danish, Composed by Foreigners and Songs and Piano Music of Edvard Grieg, Op. 33 & 66. Laura is the Artistic Director of the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series at the Nordic Museum and Founder and President of the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society.
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