Snow College Director of Chamber Music/History - Elaine Jorgensen

Director of Chamber Music/History

Elaine Lewis Jorgensen has a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Manhattan School of Music in Flute Performance, a 3-year Special Doctoral Studies Fellowship from Juilliard School of Music in New York , a Master's of Music Degree from Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Utah. Dr. Jorgensen has studied flute with the major flutists of our generation - Julius Baker, William Kincaid, Jeanne Baxtresser, Sandra Church, and Linda Chesis. She has concertized in Italy, Germany, China, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and throughout the United States. She has been a member of the Utah Symphony, the American Symphony, the Tanglewood Orchestra at the Berkshire Music Festival, and recorded for Columbia Records with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dr. Jorgensen has taught at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Utah Valley State College, Riverdale School of Music (NY), and the Waterford School (UT). She is currently Professor of Flute, Director of the Snow College Flute Choir, Director of the Horne Youth Conservatory, and teaches woodwind pedagogy, class piano, conducting, chamber ensemble, introduction to music, and is responsible for summer music workshops at Snow College. She has conducted professional flute choirs and choral groups in the United States and Europe. Her students have won many national and state prizes for their performances and many have one on to graduate programs at nationally ranked universities and conservatories for their master's and doctorate degrees.