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Ann Fredrickson, Adjunct Faculty, Choraliers Director, Director of Handbells, and Mary Martha Singers Director for Music Department, poses against a gray studio backdrop.

Ann Frederickson

Adjunct Faculty, Choraliers Director, Director – Handbells, Mary Martha Singers Director
Department: Music Department
Phone: 507-344-7580
Office Location: Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center 204
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Education

  • M.M. Vocal Performance, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  • B.A. St. Olaf College

Academic Interests

Music History, Opera, Musical Theatre, Vocal Production and Pedagogy, Choral Music

Awards

  • First Runner-up Metropolitan Opera Competition
  • Minnesota/Western Wisconsin District
  • Winner, Graduate Div. Schubert Club Competition
  • Eleanor Koehler Ellerbe Award
  • Semi-Finalist National Federation of Music Clubs
  • Winner, Young Artist Northern Lights Region, Fed. Of Music Clubs
  • Winner, Young Artist MN Federation of Music Clubs
  • Finalist, Advanced Div. Schubert Club Competition
  • Winner Henry Holt Competition, CA
  • Finalist NATS Competition, CA
  • Valedictorian, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Service

  • Board of Directors, Chair of Marketing Committee, Mankato Symphony Orchestra
  • Secretary/Treasurer: Board of Directors ProMusica Minnesota 2020 – 2024
  • Leadership Team Excelsior Covenant Church 2024
  • Adult Ministries Team Lead Excelsior Covenant Church 2018 – 2025
  • Coach Encircled.Org 2017 – 2024

Presentations/Publications

  • Advent Devotional Guide to Handel’s Messiah, Part 1 2022
  • Program Notes MSO: Symphonic #1: Melodías del Corazón 2024
  • Program Notes MSO: Symphonic #2: Bold North 2024
  • Program Notes MSO: Symphonic #3: The Emperor and Mozart 2025
  • Program Notes ProMusica Minnesota: June Festival, 2024
  • Program Notes ProMusica Minnesota: June Festival, 2023

Teaching Philosophy

I believe my job is to guide the student to be curious about their subject – to want to learn and discover more. If there is something that is not my field, I will come and join the student in study. It is more important to me that a student learn to love learning, than it is they master a specific subject. If you love to learn – the world opens up before you.

Additional Campus Responsibilities

  • Coordinator: Arts Administration Major/Minor
  • Coordinator: Voice and Keyboard Instruction

Biography

Ann Fredrickson has been a music professor for nearly 30 years at Bethany Lutheran College. Her areas of focus include music history, choral music, and private voice. She has been the artistic director for the college musical for over 25 years.

Currently, she also moonlights as Executive Director for ProMusica Minnesota, a non-profit chamber music concert series.

Previous to teaching, Ann pursued a career in opera, performing for over 10 years with the Minnesota Opera, Opera101, North Star Opera, and Pocket Opera. Her time with Minnesota Opera included main stage roles and National and Regional tours. She was the recipient of the Eleanor Koehler Ellerbe Award from the Schubert Club, First Runner-up in the District Metropolitan Opera Competition, Winner of the Young Artist Award for the Minnesota Federation of Music Clubs, and winner of the Henry Holt and NATS competitions in California. Her oratorio credits include Messiah at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and Ein Deutsches Requiem, Coronation Mass, Vesperae Solennes, and Madrigals by George Crumb.

Ann graduated with a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a B. A. from St. Olaf College. She has served as a volunteer on the boards of ProMusica Minnesota, Mankato Symphony Orchestra, the leadership team of Excelsior Covenant Church, and as a Youth Coach for Encircled, a non-profit that develops potential in young people.

Hobbies/Interests

Travel – ANYWHERE!!! (This is probably why I love choir tour so much!) Knitting, cooking, writing, sitting in a floatie in a lake and reading a good book!