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Artist Biographies
 Karen Leech, Flute, nationally recognized as an outstanding teacher has been flute professor at MSU for 35 years and her students are active throughout the United States performing and teaching. Her former students include recitalist and teacher Leonard Garrision, recording artist Rhonda Larson, and music administrator Renee Westlake. As a performer she filled the principal flute chair of the Bozeman Symphony for 34 years, played with world music groups the Montana Consort and MusiCollage and has performed several times at National Flute Association Conventions. She is a member of the International Flute Orchestra and has toured Eastern Europe, China, and Greece with this ensemble. She holds degrees from Smith College and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. She has studied with William Hebert and George Hambrecht and has played in master classes with Marcel Moyse, William Bennett, Julius
Baker, and Samuel Baron.
Lorna Nelson, Oboe and English Horn, is recently retired from MSU where she taught oboe and organ for 30 years. A founding member of the Gallatin Woodwind Quintet, she has also served as principal oboist of the Bozeman Symphony for over forty years and has been a member of the Helena Symphony, the Intermountain Opera, and the Montana Ballet. In addition to her Montana performance affiliations, she has been principal oboist with the Gladsaxe Orchestra in Copenhagen and has presented recitals in Copenhagen and Paris. Her most recent Paris recital was performed in March of 2006 at Eglise de la Sainte-Trinite Church, accompanied by Carolyn Fuster Fournier. Her degrees are from the University of Montana and she has studied oboe with Hal Herbig and Jorgen Hammergaard.
Mary Ann Jacobson, clarinet, is the clarinet professor at Montana State University and plays with the Bozeman Symphony, as well as with the Gallatin Woodwind Quintet. She is a founder of the Llano Estaccato Trio, which has performed in Texas, New Mexico and Montana and has played with the Billings Symphony and other orchestras in Montana, Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. She received her undergraduate degree from Eastern Montana College in Billings, an MM in Performance (both clarinet and voice) from the University of Montana in Missoula, and a DMA in Clarinet Performance from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Texas. For further information, please see Montana State University Music Faculty.
Alan Leech, bassoon, is the bassoon and saxophone professor at Montana State as well as principal bassoonist of the Bozeman Symphony and a performer with world music groups (Montana Consort and ‘musiCollage’) as well as with other chamber music groups (Flutes and Friends, SaxSummit). He has held principal bassoon positions with many growing American orchestras across the U.S. He was a founding member of the Gallatin Woodwind Quintet and has composed several pieces for them. He received his BM and MM degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati where he studied bassoon with Otto Eifert, and conducting with Max Rudolf and Erich Kunzel. For further information, please see Montana State University Music Faculty.
 Greg Notess, French horn, has played with the Gallatin Woodwind Quintet since their tour to Japan in 1996. He has been a member of the horn section of the Bozeman Symphony for the past sixteen years and also performs locally with the Billings Symphony, the Nutcracker Ballet Orchestra, the Gallatin Chamber Orchestra, and the natural horn ensemble, ‘Parforce’. He studied horn with Michael Hatfield and Lowell Greer in Cincinnati and has Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. He also holds a Master of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington and is currently a reference librarian at Montana State University. For further information please see Montana State University Library Faculty.
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