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Katherine
Carlson
- Music Minister Katherine Carlson has over 25 years
of professional music experience that spans solo, ensemble,
and conducting work. She began playing the organ under
the direction of Emory Fanning while a freshman at Middlebury
College (VT). After graduating with her BA cum laude
in Mathematics and Economics, she accepted a job at
Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Cambridge. After publishing
several studies on such fascinating topics as housing
infrastructure costs, she returned to New England Conservatory
of Music to earn a B.M. in organ performance studying
under Yuko Hayashi, Christa Rakich, and William Porter,
and choral conducting and liturgy with Donald Teeters.
Following graduation, she was awarded a Rotary Fellowship
(first named out of a field of 300 candidates), and
went to Paris to study at the Paris Conservatory under
the guidance of Noelle Spieth and Laure Morabito. She
earned the prestigious First Prize in harpsichord performance,
and Second Prizes in Accompaniment and Music History.
While based in Paris, she occasionally played the organ
at the American Church, where she was a member of the
Adult Choir; she toured France, England, and Germany
with a handbell choir directed by Fred Gramman; and
concertized extensively in Sweden, Norway, France, Gabon,
Central African Republic, and the Congo as a member
of the baroque ensemble Fiori Musicali, and as a soloist.
Katherine has sung in choirs since elementary school,
and has served as choir director and organist in several
churches over the past two decades. Katherine is married
and has two small, active boys, and has recently been
asked to serve on the Music Committee of the Gould Fund
Music Series of the Topsfield Town Library. She has
several organ and piano students, and in her free time,
she enjoys writing gardening columns for The Village
Reporter.
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