Andrea Toven, keeper of "the king's singers - six healthy englishmen", resides in Laramie, Wyoming. A member of the St. Olaf College Class of 1995, she holds the Bachelor of Arts degree in music. Her instrumental experience includes three years as bass clarinetist with the St. Olaf Band, serving as principal and section leader for 1994-95. She also has appeared with the St. Olaf Orchestra, the St. Olaf Clarinet Choir, and the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, and University Band at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, serving as principal with the Symphony and University Bands. She has sung with the St. Olaf Cantorei and with church choirs at First Lutheran Church (Barron, WI) and Lake Park Lutheran Church (Milwaukee, WI), as well as with the Schola Cantorum of Luther Seminary (St. Paul, MN). She has performed on four nationally released CD's, numerous in-house recordings, one world-wide television broadcast, and a pair of world-wide radio broadcasts.  She has studied orchestral conducting with Steven Amundson, instrumental conducting with Timothy Mahr and Miles Johnson, and choral conducting with Robert Scholz and Craig Johnson. Andrea has studied composition with Peter Hamlin, Timothy Mahr, and John Carter. Her compositions have been read and/or premiered in Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Community ensembles in northern Wisconsin have seen Andrea join them on percussion, horn, and tenor saxophone. She also holds an Advanced Technical Certificate (high honors) in LAN management (Novell) from Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College.  

After studying for one year at Trinity Seminary, Andrea transferred to Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, studying theology, church history, and church music.  During the summer of 2000, Andrea served as camp chaplain at Luther Park Bible Camp in Chetek, Wisconsin. She served as intern/interim associate pastor at St John's Lutheran Church in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 2001-02. She spent January Term of her senior year on independent study in Wales, where she spent four weeks at St. Deiniol's Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, as a Canon Symonds Scholar, researching the development of Anglo-Saxon monasticism.  Some day, she dreams of reading for the MA and PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of York, researching the intersection of Celtic and Benedictine monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England, but she would be happy with a BA/MA combo in history from the University of Wyoming. She is currently resident in Laramie, Wyoming, after moving there with her husband in September 2006.

In her spare time, Andrea's interests are devoted to soccer and gadgets.  She is a passionate supporter of Sunderland AFC, a club in the English Premiership, and has endured the trials and tribulations of following a "yo-yo" club.  She also follows Durham County Cricket Club, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Wild, and St. Paul Saints, and somehow became a diehard Minnesota Vikings fan while growing up in the middle of Packer country.  Andrea enjoys designing web sites.  She is turning the family Mac Mini into a media PC, watches soccer matches on her PSP, and is working on the cable-box-to-Mini coordination.

Future plans include writing a few books on topics that might not interest the average Joe, travelling to countries that don't speak American, buying season tickets to Sunderland football, following said club up and down between the Premier League and the Fizzy Pop League, and completing the "Bad Times" and "Slow Train" tours of England with her beloved Shane.



Some of my writing and research
Mending the Break: A survey of the Colloquy of Marburg (1529)
Corruption and Controversy: Simony, lay investiture, and clerical marriage and celibacy in the medieval church
Ecclesiastical indigestion: the filioque controversy
The Benedictine Centuries: Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-1066, written during my time as a Canon Symonds Scholar at St Deiniol's Library, Wales, in January 2003

Sermons
John 19:28 - Tenebrae Service, April 2, 1999 - Lake Park Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, WI
Healing - Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, 13 February 2000 - Groveport Zion Lutheran Church, Groveport, OH
Love One Another - Maundy Thursday, 20 April 2000 - Groveport Zion Lutheran Church, Groveport, OH
Monastic living - 14-15 October 2000, First Lutheran Church, Barron, WI
Alpha and omega - First Sunday after Christmas, 31 December 2000 - First Lutheran Church, Barron, WI
A Pollyanna life - First Sunday of Lent, 4 March 2001 - Lake Park Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, WI
Saul - 29 April 2001 - Zion LC, St. Paul, MN
You'll suffer but be very happy - The Holy Trinity, 9/10 June 2001 - St John's Lutheran Church, Richland Center, WI
John the stagehand - Nativity of St John the Baptist, 23/24 June 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Energy for dealing with jealousy - 14/15 July 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Energy for dealing with cloning - 21/22 July 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Energy for dealing with Revelation - 28/29 July 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Energy for dealing with rumours and gossip - 25/26 August 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Can we forgive? - 15/16 September 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Slackers, awake! - 29/30 September 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Humpty Dumpty meets Jesus - 24/25 November 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Something's coming - 8/9 December 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Dobby's socks - 25 December 2001 - St John's LC, RC, WI
John the Baptist - 12/13 January 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Who do you belong to? - 26/27 January 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Let your light shine - 9/10 February 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Living faithfully in a world of temptation - 16/17 February 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Clear as mud - 9/10 March 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
I just got up - 31 March 2002, Easter Morning - St John's LC, RC, WI
I'll believe it when I don't see it - 6/7 April 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
Get together - 20/21 April 2002 - St. John's LC, RC, WI
The Day of Pentecost - 18/19 May 2002 - St John's LC, RC, WI
All Saints 2002 - 2/3 November 2002 - First LC, Barron, WI
Blah blah blah - 6 April 2003 - Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN

Audio downloads - recommend you right-click to save to your local drive
Fanfare and Grand March - contra clarinet with the St. Olaf Band (mp3)
Nearer My God To Thee - alto vocals and bass clarinet with the St. Olaf Band (AAC)
The Circus Bee - bass clarinet with the St. Olaf Band (AAC)
Amazing Grace, campfire style - descant with the Luther Park Bible Camp staff (mp3)
Here Is the Little Door - alto with the St. Olaf Cantorei (mp3)
A Spotless Rose - alto with the St. Olaf Cantorei (mp3)
Irish Tune from County Derry - bass clarinet with the St. Olaf Band (mp3)
Lullaby on Christmas Eve - alto with the massed choirs of St. Olaf College (mp3)
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - alto with the St. Olaf Cantorei (mp3)
Beautiful Savior - alto with the massed choirs of St. Olaf College (mp3)
Fantasia Variations on "In dir ist Freude" - written for the St. Olaf Band - premiered April, 1995 (mp3)
Bach "Little" Fugue in g minor - arranged for the St. Olaf Clarinet Choir - premiered April, 1994 (mp3)
Celebration Fanfare - MIDI transcription - orchestral version premiered in TX in 1995, band transcription read in IA in 1995 (mp3)
Reflection on Slane - written for piano (mp3)

Favorite websites
Sunderland Association Football Club
Ready To Go
Engadget


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