Mankato Symphony Orchestra

Mankato Symphony Orchestra

Kenneth Freed—Music Director

Lynne Weber

 


Been with the MSO since: 1970


Hometown: My father was a Colonel in the Air Force – we moved a lot – I have no hometown.


Education: BA Music, BS Music Education, BA French, MA Music History, MA Library Science


My day job: Access Services Librarian, Minnesota State University, Mankato


Earliest musical memory: My mother’s 78 rpm recordings of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto & Grieg Piano Concerto


Favorite thing about performing music: Exploration of inner parts


The composition I would most like to perform: Babar the Elephant, Poulenc: Concerti for Two Pianos and Orchestra


Best part about being an MSO musician: I have a lot of friends in the orchestra


What's on my iPod or in my CD player: Yo-Yo Ma: Obrigado Brazil

 

Other interesting fact(s): 1 husband, 1 daughter, 1 foster daughter, 2 grand-dogs, Studied French in France for 3 summers, Taught Suzuki cello at Mankato Suzuki School & New Ulm Suzuki School, Used to work in Music Library at Gustavus and St. Olaf