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Featuring Thursday Musical Members Megan Monahan Wallace, piano and Ona Pinsonneault, clarinet accompanied by guest artist James Kurschner, piano.
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Megan Monahan Wallace, D.M.A., a native of Butte, Montana, received her Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Dr. Nelita True. She earned both her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Minnesota, where she studied with pianist Lydia Artymiw. She has performed, taught, and adjudicated in the Twin Cities as well as Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Michigan, Goshen College Piano Workshop, Indiana and Musicfest Northwest, Spokane, WA. In 1999 and again in June of 2022, Megan produced and performed a concert version of Robert Schumann’s opera, Genoveva, in cooperation with many Twin Cities’ musicians in performances at Sundin Hall, Hamline University. In February 2010, she produced and performed, in conjunction with Trinity School at River Ridge, Eagan MN, the opera Brundibár by Hans Krása with special guest Ela Weissberger, an original cast member from the opera and survivor of the holocaust.
Megan has performed the complete Beethoven piano concerti with the Mayo Clinic Chamber Symphony, Rochester, Minnesota. In June 2009, she performed the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the David Jorlett Chorale on a tour of Vienna, Austria and Rothenberg, Germany. Megan also enjoys collaborating with her husband, pianist/organist, Christopher Wallace. Megan has served as piano instructor and staff accompanist on the faculty of the Wirth Center for the Performing Arts in Central Minnesota, and from 1997-2008, served on the piano faculty at MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she taught piano and chamber music. She is a member of Thursday Musical and performs regularly on the Artist Series programs. More recently, Dr. Wallace served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Piano at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN from January-May, 2020. Currently, Megan and her husband maintain a private studio in St. Louis Park, MN, Wallace Piano and Organ Studios.
na Pinsonneault is retired from Normandale Community College after having taught Music Theory and Ear Training there for many, many years! (She was also department chair, taught piano and clarinet and wrote the first self-study for their NASM accreditation.) Having studied with John Anderson she holds a DMA in clarinet performance from the University of Minnesota. She currently is a member of the Normandale Concert Band and the OTL Clarinet Trio and Quartet. Ona’s scale study Clarinet Agility is available from Jeanné, Inc. and at Groth Music.
James Kurschner is a member of the music faculty at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN, where he conducts the concert band, instrumental ensembles, and teaches applied saxophone, music appreciation, and jazz history. Since 2002, he has been the Music Director of the Sheldon Theatre Brass Band, a nationally recognized and award-winning ensemble. Jim is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he studied piano with Carolyn Britton, and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL where he studied piano with Mary Stanton, and conducting with John Paynter.
