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Kimberly Utke Svanoe, D.M.A.
Associate Professor of Music
712-707-7064
utke@nwciowa.edu
Dr. Svanoe directs the Symphonette (chamber orchestra), Women’s Choir and chamber music program (strings). She teaches Exploring Music, applied strings, and choral and elementary music education. A graduate of the University of Iowa with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting, she also holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and Minot State College. She also has studied at the Westminster Choir College and the Berkshire Choral Institute, and has performed and studied with noted conductors such as Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Korn, Lorna Cooke deVaron, Colin Davis and the late Robert Shaw. Svanoe has sung in several festival choruses at Carnegie Hall, and she is active as an adjudicator, clinician and performer throughout the Midwest.
Dr. Svanoe was on sabbatical during the 2007–08 school year. She assisted Dr. Don V. Moses, founding director of the Classical Music Festival at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., and former director of the University of Illinois School of Music, in writing a book on Haydn’s masses. She also continued her research regarding the exposure of young children to orchestral musical examples in the elementary vocal classroom.
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