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Featuring Gail Olszewski, piano; Megan Wallace, piano with Suzanne Hoy, soprano*; and Ona Pinsonneault, clarinet accompanied by James Kurschner, piano*.

*denotes guest artist

For everyone’s safety, Thursday Musical requires all audience members to wear a non-cloth mask such as a N95, KN95, KF94, or surgical mask. If needed, surgical-type masks will be available. All audience members will also need to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination, or proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance.

Note: The stage at MacPhail is separated from the audience seating,
so performers may perform safely without masks.

Ona Pinsonneault retired from Normandale Community College after having taught Music Theory and Ear Training there for many years. She holds a D.M.A. in clarinet performance from the University of Minnesota where she studied with John Anderson. She currently performs with the Normandale Concert Band and the OTL Clarinet Quartet. Ona’s scale study Clarinet Agility is available from Jeanné, Inc. and at Groth Music.

James Kurschner is a member of the music faculty at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN, where he conducts the concert band, instrumental ensembles, and teaches applied saxophone, music appreciation, and jazz history. Since 2002, he has been the Music Director of the Sheldon Theatre Brass Band, a nationally recognized and award-winning ensemble. Jim is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he studied piano with Carolyn Britton, and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL where he studied piano with Mary Stanton, and conducting with John Paynter.

Gail Olszewski has performed solo and chamber recitals on many keyboard instruments in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Central America. She has played with many local groups including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Bach Society of Minnesota, Music St. Croix and Ordway Productions. Gail is a founding member of The WolfGang, dedicated to authentic instrument performance, and Duo Tastiera, a harpsichord/piano duo with harpsichordist/composer Asako Hirabayashi, with whom she has recorded. In 2019 she released Northern Lights: Finnish Favorites (Centaur) of Finnish piano music, available on CD and digital downloads. Gail has presented master classes and lecture/recitals on women musicians, history of keyboard instruments, chamber music, Scandinavian piano music, intermediate piano pieces and teaching collaborative skills to many schools, symposia and professional organizations and has had review articles published in the journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music. Gail received a BA in Spanish and Music History/Harpsichord from the University of New Hampshire, MMus in Piano Performance from Boston University and DMA in Accompanying and Coaching from the University of Minnesota. She teaches piano, harpsichord and chamber music privately and at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more info: www.gailopiano.com 

Megan Monahan Wallace, D.M.A., a native of Butte, Montana, received her Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Dr. Nelita True. She earned both her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Minnesota, where she studied with pianist Lydia Artymiw. She has performed, taught, and adjudicated in the Twin Cities as well as Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Michigan, Goshen College Piano Workshop, Indiana and Musicfest Northwest, Spokane, WA. In 1999, Megan produced and performed a concert version of Robert Schumann’s opera, Genoveva, in cooperation with many Twin Cities’ musicians in a performance at Sundin Hall, Hamline University. In February 2010, she produced and performed, in conjunction with Trinity School at River Ridge, Eagan MN, the opera Brundibár by Hans Krása 5 with special guest Ela Weissberger, an original cast member from the opera and survivor of the Holocaust.

Megan has performed the complete Beethoven piano concerti with the Mayo Clinic Chamber Symphony, Rochester, Minnesota. In June 2009, she performed the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the David Jorlett Chorale on a tour of Vienna, Austria and Rothenberg, Germany. Megan also enjoys collaborating with her husband, pianist/organist, Christopher Wallace. Megan has served as piano instructor and staff accompanist on the faculty of the Wirth Center for the Performing Arts in Central Minnesota, and from 1997-2008, served on the piano faculty at MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she taught piano and chamber music. She is a member of Thursday Musical and performs regularly on the Artist Series programs. More recently, Dr. Wallace served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Piano at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN from January-May, 2020. Currently, Megan and her husband maintain a private studio in St. Louis Park, MN, Wallace Piano and Organ Studios.

Susanne Hoy, soprano, sings regularly at Our Lady of Grace, Edina, MN in Schola Cantorum, as a cantor, and in recitals locally and she is a performing member of the professional musician’s concert series Thursday Musical. In 2018, she performed the soprano solo in the Brahms Requiem with Chorus Polaris conducted by William Mathis, Minneapolis, MN. From 2008 to 2013, she sang with a semi-professional women’s vocal ensemble, Cecilia Chamber Singers (CCS), who has performed primarily in the mid-west,  and in 2009, performed in Germany and Austria and as part of the Salzburg Music Festival. In addition, she participated in the fulfillment of two recording projects with CCS, Let Evening Come and A Sacred Banquet. In 2012, Susanne toured and led sacred music on a pilgrimage of the Holy Land. She is married to Roger Hoy. They have three children and they reside in the West Metro.