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Meet the Staff at MMI
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Michael Aamoth
Michael Aamoth, owner and president.
Mike studied at Aspen Music Festival, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Minnesota where
he received his degree. He has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, 92nd Street Y
Orchestra, Aspen Festival orchestras, South Dakota Symphony, Dakota Wind Quintet, Duluth Symphony and continues to perform
as a freelance musician in the Twin Cities. Mike has studied with Ronald Roseman, Rhadames Angelucci, Dick Killmer, Henry Schuman,
Marion Gibson, and Carl Holub. He also has taught hundreds of oboe students over the past 32 years and continues to teach
young oboists in the Twin City area. Mike's former students have or do perform with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
the Minnesota Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and the Louisville Symphony. |
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Laura Nortwen
Laura Nortwen, office manager and oboe specialist.
Laura holds performance degrees from the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa, where she studied with Rhadames Angelucci, Carl Holub, and James Lakin.
Laura was adjunct instructor of oboe at Gustavus Adolphus College for 11 years, and she has taught at Bethel College and the Owatonna school system. She has performed
with The Joffrey Ballet, National Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Minnesota Sinfonia, and many other freelance organizations. Laura currently
maintains a small private teaching studio and exercises her need for control by managing the magic and mayhem at Midwest Musical Imports. |
Oboe Specialists
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Sarah Carmack (Boyle)
Sarah Carmack has two degrees in oboe performance from the New England Conservatory
of Music and the University of Minnesota, where she studied with Laura Ahlbeck and John Snow. In addition to processing cane
and selling reeds, she has a private teaching studio in the Twin Cities and is an active freelance oboist. She plays with the Wild
Indigo Reed Trio and with Pavia Winds Woodwind Quintet. |
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Wes Huisinga
Wes Huisinga graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in oboe performance
and also has attended Thomas Stacy English horn seminars. He has
played with many regional orchestras, including five years with the Duluth-Superior
Symphony Orchestra. Wes does woodwind doubling in musical theater orchestras and has
played with Theater Latté Da, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters and Southern
Theatre. He can throw fabulous dinner parties if so inclined. |
Marilyn Ford
Marilyn Ford, oboe specialist, did her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Minnesota studying with Rhadames Angelucci. She has also studied with Richard Killmer and Basil Reeve. Marilyn has been a freelance oboist in the Twin City Metropolitan Area for over 30 years. She is Principal Oboe of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and has served as extra oboe for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra. Ms. Ford has also been guest Principal Oboe and English Horn soloist for the SPCO and the Minnesota Orchestra. Marilyn has a private oboe studio in her home in Richfield. |
Bassoon Specialists
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Jessica B. Nelson
Jessica B. Nelson has a degree in bassoon and piano from the University of Minnesota, Morris where she studied bassoon with Russell Peterson. For the last five years, she lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil and studied at the Universidade Livre de Musica with Professor Alexandre Silverio. She was also second bassoonist in the Orquestra Experimental de Repertorio. She looks forward to working and performing in the Twin Cities area.
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Flute Specialist
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Wes Huisinga
Wes Huisinga graduated from the University
of Minnesota with a degree in oboe performance and also has attended Thomas Stacy English
horn seminars. He has played with many regional orchestras, including five years with
the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra. Wes does woodwind doubling in musical theater
orchestras and has played with Theater Latté Da, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters and Southern
Theatre. He can throw fabulous dinner parties if so inclined. |
Saxophone, Clarinet and Flute Specialists
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Peter Skjervold
Peter Skjervold studied flute and saxophone performance at Augsburg College, Minneapolis and recieved a BA from Augsburg in Theatre.
Peter has performed throughout the Twin Cities and Midwest with various jazz, rock and pop groups for the past 27 years. Peter continues to perform as a freelance musician and with
a wide range of groups including the First Universalist Big Band, The Uptown Jazz Quartet and the Square Roots and he recently participated in a master class led by Wissam Boustany.
Peter is recording a collection of ancient vocal pieces arranged for flute and winds to be released fall 2007.
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Wes Huisinga
Wes Huisinga graduated from the University
of Minnesota with a degree in oboe performance and also has attended Thomas Stacy English
horn seminars. He has played with many regional orchestras, including five years with
the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra. Wes does woodwind doubling in musical theater
orchestras and has played with Theater Latté Da, Chanhassen Dinner Theaters and Southern
Theatre. He can throw fabulous dinner parties if so inclined. |
Accounting Department
Tricia Lerohl
Tricia Lerohl - swf, late 30's, Bookkeeper, is the only MMI employee
sans double reed knowledge. Instead, she enjoys a neurosis of her own stemming from years of playing the
French Horn. An active free-lancer in the Twin Cities area, Tricia enjoys playing in a variety of ensembles from the
Minnesota Orchestra to Lorie Line and her Pop Chamber Orchestra. |
Cane Processors
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Sarah Carmack (Boyle)
Sarah Carmack has two degrees in oboe performance from the New England Conservatory
of Music and the University of Minnesota, where she studied with Laura Ahlbeck and John Snow. In addition to processing cane
and selling reeds, she has a private teaching studio in the Twin Cities and is an active freelance oboist. She plays with the Wild
Indigo Reed Trio and with Pavia Winds Woodwind Quintet. |
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Rachel Brudnoy
Rachel Brudnoy is a freelance concert and recording studio solo oboist
and English horn performer. She has studied at both the University of Minnesota and the Berkshire Music School. She
is an adjunct professor of oboe at Macalester College, the University of St. Thomas, Hamline University and the
College of St. Catherine. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Twin Cities Musicians' Union. |
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Sarah Erickson Lume
Sarah currently teaches oboe at Gustavus Adolphus College
and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon where she studied with Cynthia DeAlmeida of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
She performs with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and freelances in the Twin Cities. |
Stanley King
Stanley King has been processing oboe and English horn cane for MMI since 1994.
Along with a Bachelor and Master's Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, Stanley pursued studies in Historical
Performance Practice at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. He continues to actively perform on both modern and
historical oboes. Solo Oboe and Oboe d'Amore with The Lyra Concert, Stanley is also Principal Oboe with the Minnesota Sinfonia.
He has served as Principal Oboe for the Washington (D.C.) Ballet Orchestra since 1981. Since moving to the Twin Cities area
in 1992 he also performs with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera Orchestra, Philomusica, the Minnesota Contemporary
Ensemble, the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, the Wolfgang Ensemble and the St. Scholastica Faculty Baroque Ensemble in Duluth.
Stanley teaches oboe at the University of Wisconsin/ River Falls. He has been gouging cane since 1969. |
Ellen Rider
Ellen Rider has gouged and shaped cane with her husband, Stanley King, since 1994.
She is an active performer on historical oboes in the Twin Cities and nationally. Her other job is a teacher of Spanish at the
University of Wisconsin/ Stout. Learning to maintain and adjust gouging machines has been an important skill they have learned;
their goal is to produce consistently high quality gouged and shaped oboe and English horn cane. |
Instrument Repair at MMI
Repair Technicians
Cindy Budd
Cindy Budd, a member of the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair
Technicians, was trained at Red Wing Technical College and the
Lorée Factory in France. She specializes in all double reed instruments, flutes,
and clarinets. Cindy is especially adept at pinning cracks and
handling detailed key/mechanism adjustments. Cindy is an active oboist in the Twin Cities and uses her experience
to play-test her work.
Eric Anderson graduated from Minnesota State South East Technical College (formerly known as
Red Wing Technical College) in May 2005 with a 4.0 in
brass and woodwind repair. He has been with Midwest Musical Imports since August 2005 as the latest
addition to the repair staff. His aim is to give his support in whatever way possible to both the
local and worldwide music scene. For two years he sang as a tenor in the Crown College choir.
Currently, during his free time, he is busy writing and recording music with a local band and on his
own. “Music has, and will always be a big part of my life, so I use the abilities I have to keep
it lit. I’ll keep writing it, playing it, and fixing select instruments used to produce it—
because I love it.”
All of their repair work is guaranteed.
Please call if you would like to find out the turn-around time frame for general, warranty, or check-up work.
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