The Vecchione/Erdahl Duo

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Called "pioneers" by Minnesota Public Radio for "forging ahead with a new chamber music combination," the engaging and entertaining Vecchione/Erdahl Duo charts new territory for their combination of instruments in music that is accessible, challenging, enlightening, and virtuosic. This award-winning chamber group of a different color will share with you their own repertoire of evocative music influenced by ethnic folk songs, dances and All-American jazz. You can hear music that grabs your ear as the ink dries, and sends you out the door humming a new tune.

Carrie Vecchione, oboe and English horn, received Doctoral and Bachelor degrees from Louisiana State University, and her Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She currently teaches at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, and previously taught at St. Olaf College and at Ball State University, where she performed with the resident faculty ensemble, the Musical Arts Quintet, and created and hosted the John de Lancie Master Classes and the Reed Maker's Workshops. Vecchione subs with the Minnesota Orchestra, and appears as Principal Oboe of the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra. She previously subbed for the Indianapolis Symphony, and was a member of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Muncie Symphony, the Baton Rouge Symphony, New Orleans Ballet, Acadiana Symphony, Natchez Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Vineyard Opera, Grand Teton Orchestral Seminar, and the NOA National Orchestra of New York. She has soloed in the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, and performed at many national conferences. Solo premieres include Timothy Goplerud's Concerto for English horn, and Transformations for Oboe and String Orchestra by Dinos Constantinides. She served on the faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Center, the International Peace Gardens Music Camp, and has been an adjudicator and clinician locally and nationally.

Rolf Erdahl, double bass, graduated from St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, and the Peabody Conservatory. Fulbright and Scandinavian-American Foundation Scholar studies in Norway culminated in his doctoral dissertation on the music of Grieg. He teaches bass at Luther College, Gustavus Adolphus College, and the Lutheran Summer Music Festival. He has also taught bass at the University of Manitoba, Ball State and Wichita State Universities, the Sewanee Music Festival, and the North Carolina Governor's School. Erdahl subs for the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Minnesota Opera. Previously Principal Bass of the Winnipeg Symphony and Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, he has also subbed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Miami Beach Basstet, and White Noise Chamber Players.

It Takes Two... An entire CD devoted to recent repertoire for double bass and oboe. Includes three compositions by Tim Goplerud, who earned a master's degree in double bass from Juilliard, three miniatures by composer Dinos Constantinides, and Adrian Mann’s Canzone Vecchione, crafted from five Italian folk songs as a birthday gift for Erdahl's father. All but one of the pieces were composed specifically for the duo. CD Price: $14.97

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