Jane Garvin, a native of Minnesota, completed graduate studies at the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Leone Buyse. During her undergraduate work at the Conservatory, she was a student of Fenwick Smith. For two summers Ms. Garvin was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and had the opportunity to play under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.
As a freelance musician, Ms. Garvin has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble, Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops Espanade Orchestra. Jane is a member of Aeolus, a folk duo that plays music on native flutes from China, Africa, Ireland, and several South American countries. She gives demonstrations of these instruments to students in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro areas through the Minnesota Orchestra’s Adopt-A-School Program. For many years Jane has been playing with The Musical Offering, the Twin Cities’ oldest established chamber music group.
Ms. Garvin has served on the faculties of the College of the Holy Cross, Brandeis University, the College of St. Benedict, MacPhail Center for the Arts, and is currently teaching at the University of St. Thomas. She has recorded contemporary music of the Neuma compact disc label with the Holy Cross Chamber Players, and has recorded chamber music on Russian Disc and the Lifescapes Series.
She lives with her partner Jim, the cellist in the group, and their six rambunctious cats.
Knowles Dougherty
I am the coordinator of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s “Chamber Music and Dessert” special interest group (of about 135 seniors on my emaililng list). I started this about 5 years ago shortly after moving to the Twin Cities. So, for 5 years now, I have been including all the concerts of The Musical Offering on the schedule I make up for this group. Eleven of us attended your concert yesterday (January16th) and all agreed it was the best ever, in large part due to your flute. One of our group brought her 14-year-old granddaughter who is playing flute in the band at Eastview High School (Apple Valley). She was thrilled.
I am so impressed with The Musical Offering, I am going to suggest to my professional violinist sister (who just moved to Austin, Texas) that she put together a similar group there. As an avid chamber music listener, I think the concept is a real winner, with the capability of putting on very unusual and always varied concerts. Of course Sundin Hall only adds to the whole experience. What a gift the Sundins made to the Twin Cities with that place.
Good luck and thanks for the great performance yesterday.