Music faculty

Karin Swanson, M.M.

Oboe Instructor

M.M., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
B.M., St. Olaf College

swansont@pionet.net

Profile

Karin Swanson has maintained a private oboe studio for more than two decades and also serves as an oboe teacher at the University of South Dakota. She is an oboist for the Sioux City Symphony, the Sioux City Municipal Band and the Le Mars Municipal Band. Other teaching experience includes serving as a music teacher for elementary and middle schools in Byron, Illinois; for Kettle Moraine Middle School in Dousman, Wisconsin; and for Le Mars Community Schools in Le Mars, Iowa. In addition to a bachelor's egree in oboe performance, she holds a master's degree in music education.