Dr. Susan Nelson, assistant professor of bassoon at Bowling Green State University (Ohio), and Dr. Robert Satterlee, associate professor of piano at BGSU, will present a recital and master class at Ohio State. Selections to be performed include Francisco Mignone's Concertino, John Steinmetz's Sonata, Henri Dutilleux's Sarabande et Cortège, and Gordon Jacob's Partita.
Susan Nelson enjoys an active career as a performer, teacher, and clinician. Most recently she taught bassoon and theory at Stephen F. Austin State University and played with the Stone Fort Wind Quintet in Nacogdoches, Texas. In the summer Dr. Nelson teaches at the Bocal Majority Bassoon Camp and BGSU’s Double Reed-Making Camp. She has performed with the annual Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, as well as the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Symphony Orchestra, and the Helena Symphony. Dr. Nelson taught at both Adrian and Heidelberg Colleges and was a member of the Heidelberg faculty wind quintet. She also held the position of principal bassoon in the Great Falls Symphony and was a member of the Chinook Winds quintet in Great Falls, Montana. Dr. Nelson has received the top award at the Midwest Double Reed Society Young Artists Competition, was a finalist in the University of Oklahoma Concerto Competition, a finalist in the Arapahoe Philharmonic Concerto competition, and won third place in the Ann Arbor Society for the Musical Arts competition. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Michigan. Her primary teachers include Jeffrey Lyman, Carl Rath, and Alan Hawkins.
Robert Satterlee, associate professor of piano, also serves as assistant dean for Graduate Studies at Bowling Green. Dr. Satterlee, who was appointed in 1998 to the piano faculty of BGSU, has developed a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician. He plays regularly throughout the United States, delighting audiences with his incisive and imaginative performances. He has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Music Teachers National Association national conventions, the Quad Cities Mozart Festival and at many colleges and universities. He holds degrees in piano from Yale University, Peabody Conservatory, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
