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Julie!

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About Me

Piano Instructor, Accompanist at Gustavus Adolphus College and MNSU (primarily for vocalists), Collaborative Artist, and Soloist. Upcoming performances: a solo piano recital in October/November 2008; presenting China Gates by John Adams, Arnold Schoenberg's Drei Klavierstucke, Op. 11, a set of Etudes by Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc's L' Histoire de Babar le petit elephant for piano with narration.

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My Interests

Laughter, "splunking" down the river, clever perceptions, hiking, camping, proud auntie of 8 (1 hen and *7* roosters), languages of the world, The Johnson's Fun Swinger, proverbs, riding bicycles *without* a helmet, listening to the wind, rainfall, and Canada geese, LIVE music, tandems, butterflies in my stomach, friends and family stopping by unannounced--mi casa sus casa, traveling, reading, meditation, observing the habits of people, animals, insects, plants, and things...

I'd like to meet:

No one in prrrrticular...

Music:

Microphones, Moldy Peaches, Crass, Magnetic Fields, Clinic, The Free Design, Portishead, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Latin jazz, Malvina Reynolds, Joanna Newsom, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Franz Schubert, Erik Satie, Anton Dvorak, Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Adams, Dinu Lipatti, Philip Glass, Gyorgy Ligeti, Glenn Gloud, Angela Hewitt, Peter Fletcher, Jeffrey Brooks, The Bakken Trio, The Ames Piano Quartet...

Movies:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Science of Sleep, Amelie, Being There, Before Night Falls, Waiting for Guffman, Whale Rider, Dark Crystal, Baraka...

Television:

I'm not a real TV spectator but thank Goddess for I'm Alan Partridge (BRIT COM), The Office, Space Ghost, Dead Like Me (a gritty dark comedy), and Invader Zim.

Books:

Jitterbug Perfume by Robbins, The Miracle of Mindfulness by Tich Ghnat Hahn, Identity by Kundera, Pope Joan by D. W. Cross, Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, currently reading Sleeping with Schubert by B. Marson--me like...