Kristin Mortenson is the Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Music at Kansas State University where she also teaches music theory in the core curriculum for music majors, and music fundamentals and music listening laboratory for non-majors. She maintains a private violin and viola studio in Manhattan, and has been on the string faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan since 1986. Mortenson is currently the Assistant Editor/Principal Proofreader of the International Trumpet Guild Journal.
Mortenson attended the University of Texas at Austin as a violin student of Leonard Posner, and received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin from Louisiana State University where she studied with Sally O’Reilly. She is Associate Concertmaster of the Topeka Symphony and was previously a first violinist in the Austin, Baton Rouge, Wichita, and Des Moines Symphonies. She has been a soloist with the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra and the Flint Hills Chamber Orchestra, and served as Concertmaster of the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra for twenty years. Kristin has performed in concert with popular entertainers Ray Charles, Dionne Warwick, Mannheim Steamroller, Bob Hope, Doc Severinsen, Shirley Jones, and the rock band, Kansas.

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