Gustavus Adolphus College

Professor
Music

A native of Appleton, Wisconsin, Ann Pesavento has taught at Gustavus since 1978, coordinating woodwind activities, teaching bassoon, music theory and music education courses and conducting/coaching woodwind ensembles. Her graduate degrees are from Butler University and the University of Northern Colorado. In the Twin Cities, Dr. Pesavento has played at the Guthrie Theatre, the Children's Theatre, the Walker Art Center and as an extra with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Locally, she served as principal bassoon of the Mankato Symphony for 23 years - soloing on Lars Eric Larsson's Concertino for Bassoon, the VanHal Concerto for Two Bassoons, and the Mozart Sinfonia Concertant - and is currently a free-lance performer in the area.  

A strong advocate of chamber music, she was a founding member of the St. Paul wind group, Harmonia Mundi, as well as of the Gustavus Baroque Quartet, the Gustavus Faculty Woodwind Trio and Tre Kroner Kvintetten (the faculty woodwind quintet). She performed on several Minnesota Valley Sommarfest programs, soloing on the Vivaldi Concerto in A minor and contributing to performances of the Schubert Octet, Mozart Gran Partita, and Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat among others.  She toured to the East Coast as soloist with the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, performing the Weber Andante and Hungarian Rondo, and has been featured on the Old Bear with the Sore Head with the Gustavus Band.  A past-president of the Minnesota Music Educators Association, she is active throughout the region as a private teacher, clinician, conductor and adjudicator.

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