Andrea Een is a violist

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

/violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist and Associate Professor of Music at St Olaf College. 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

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 (in the 1980s). She was presented with the medal in Urness Recital Hall by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 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

Ole Bull

Ole Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...

 Award (from the eponymous academy in Voss, Norway) in 1987, and was accredited as a Master Folk Artist Teacher by the Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 State Arts Board in 1998. Een is the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants and grew up in Mankato, Minnesota

Mankato, Minnesota

Mankato is a city in Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 39,309 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth largest city in Minnesota outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The county seat of Blue Earth County, it is located...

. She has had poetry and essays published, and has composed a number of pieces for the Hardanger fiddle, including "President Thomforde's" March which was performed for the first time during St Olaf College's Inauguration Weekend, April 2000.

In 20 January 2007 Een demonstrated the Hardanger fiddle at the Highview Lutheran Church

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

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External links

• andreaeen.com - official site
• Hardanger Fiddle Association of America - official site