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. She currently performs with the Mankato Symphony. 

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 has performed on several recent Minnesota Valley Sommarfest programs and was recently the featured performer with the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra as part of its spring tour concert program in 1997. In addition, she is active throughout the region as a private teacher, clinician, conductor and adjudicator.

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