Teacher Biographies

Heta Priiki
Heta Priiki studied the piano at the Turku Conservatory with Elzbieta Guzek-Soini and graduated in 1991. She also attended several master classes including those with Matti Raekallio and Erik T. Tawaststjerna.

Heta works as a piano teacher and has an enthusiasm for chamber music which she practices actively in various ensembles. Currently she is employed as a piano teacher and an accompanist at the Länsi-Uusimaa School of Music.

Anna-Leena Rysä
Anna-Leena Rysä started her music studies at Oulu Conservatory. She continued flute studies at the Sibelius Academy with Mikael Helasvuo, Ilpo Mansnerus and Petri Alanko and graduated in 1995. In 1993-1994 she lived in Paris studying with Raymond Guiot.

Anna-Leena has worked as a principal flutist in the Lohja City Orchestra and Pori Sinfonietta and as a flutist in the Helsinki Philharmonic. Since 2000 she has been a principal teacher at the Music Institute of Pakila in Helsinki.

Markus Simon Fagerudd
Markus Simon Fagerudd studied composition at the Sibelius-Academy, Helsinki, with Olli Kortekangas, Kalevi Aho and Erkki Jokinen. He also studied from 1993-94 in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik with Wolfgang Rihm. Markus received his Master of Arts degree in 1995.

From 1997-2006 he was a composer-in-residence with the Lappeenranta City Orchestra and at the Lappeenranta Music institute.  At present he is a composer-in-residence with the Vasa City Orchestra. Other teaching experience includes a position as arranging teacher at the Sibelius Academy 1994-95 and lector in music at the Theatre High School 2007-2008.

Debora Harris

Flutist Debora Harris, associate professor of flute at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., is an accomplished flutist in a broad range of musical styles. Principal flutist of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony for the past eleven years and the Berkshire Opera Company (2001 season), Debora has also performed as a recitalist and clinician throughout the United States. Ms. Harris is a member of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Woodwind Quintet and the Harris-Rheude Flute and Clarinet Duo.

A devoted teacher, Debora also serves on the faculty each summer at the acclaimed International Music Camp located on the border of the United States and Canada; she also presents master classes in colleges and universities throughout the United States. She holds a Master of Music degree and is completing a Doctor of Music from Florida State University, where she studied with Charles DeLaney and has received additional instruction from William Bennett.

D. P. Bradley Logan

Dr. P. Bradley Logan, professor of music, is department chair and director of choral activities at Bemidji State University, where he conducts the Bemidji Choir and the Chamber Singers.  He also teaches courses in conducting. Bradley has served on the faculties of numerous universities and holds his B.S. in vocal music education from North Dakota State University, his M.A. in choral music from California State University, Long Beach, and his D.M.A. in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois.

Bradley continues active participation in the activities and administration of the American Choral Director's Association, presently serving as North Central Division R&S chair for youth and student activities. He made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting Ren Clausen's “A New Creation” on April 15, 2002. In the spring of 2003 he conducted the BSU Chamber Singers on the Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. This past summer Bradley served as conductor of the Rothenburg Choral Festival in Rothenburg, Germany, where he directed a festival choir and the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt in a performance of John Rutter's “Requiem.”

Bradley has been an active teacher of voice for twenty-six years. His studio has produced numerous winners of state and division NATS competitions and has prepared students for graduate study at leading conservatories in the United States.

Stephen Carlson

A member of the Bemidji State University music department since 2006, pianist Dr. Stephen Carlson is a versatile soloist and chamber musician who has performed at many colleges, universities, and festivals throughout the Midwest, Southeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada.

In 2005, Stephen made his highly regarded New York debut as a solo recitalist in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. From 1995 to 2003, he appeared at Minnesota Valley Sommarfest (St. Peter, Minn.) where he performed an array of solo and collaborative works. One-half of the McKay-Carlson Piano Duo, Carlson has also performed chamber music with members of the South Carolina Philharmonic as well as the Charleston and Greenville (S.C.) Symphonies. He was appointed to the Performing Artist Roster of the South Carolina Arts Commission and remains in demand as a performer, adjudicator and clinician.

He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Iowa where he studied with Uriel Tsachor. He is also a graduate of the University of Illinois and Gustavus Adolphus College where he studied with Ian Hobson and John McKay, respectively.

Prior to coming to Bemidji State where he is an assistant professor of music and coordinator of the piano area, Carlson was a tenured faculty member at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. He has also taught piano at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, Gustavus Adolphus College and St. Joseph’s School of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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