MUSICIAN PROFILE
DMA concerto competition, a member of the Poulenc Chamber Players on Long Island, and principal cello of the Stony Brook graduate orchestra.
BETSY HUSBY BETSY HUSBY HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOR 45 YEARS.
Dr. Betsy Husby is a native of Duluth, MN, graduating from Central High School. As an accomplished pianist and cellist, she continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin Superior and subsequently earned her B.A., M.M., and DMA in cello performance at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y., studying Bernard Greenhouse and Timothy Eddy, cellists of the internationally renowned Beaux Arts Trio, and Orion String Quartet. Highlights of her career have included performing in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, a live Minnesota Public Radio Broadcast of the technically demanding Prokofieff Sinfonie Concertante with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra in 1988, and receiving Minnesota State Arts Board grants in 2004-2012 to do concert tours of the United States, Japan, France, and Russia and record a CD with pianist Dr. Alexander Chernyshev called Russian Extravaganza. Dr. Husby began her solo, chamber music, and orchestral experience in New York where she was winner of the
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Husby has been principal cello with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra for 35 years, and is principal cello and founding member of the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. She has been featured soloist on Minnesota Public Radio with the DSSO and Highland String Quartet, and has been featured with the Itasca Symphony Orchestra, Petrozavodsk Symphony Orchestra in Russia, Ashland Chequamegon Symphonette and the UWS, UMD and St. Scholastica Orchestras. In 2005, she was a featured artist on the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series in St. Paul, and at the Bernard Greenhouse 90th Birthday Celebration in Greensboro, N.C. In December 2020, she will be featured playing the Prokofieff Sinfonie Concertante with the Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra in Alexandria, Minnesota. In addition to her performing career, Husby has completed the rigorous Bk. 1-10 pedagogical training in the Suzuki Association of the Americas short term teacher training courses, and enjoys teaching cellists of all ages. She has taught on the faculties of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Wisconsin, the College of St. Scholastica, the College of St. Benedict, and the University of Minnesota Duluth.
SPONSORED BY CHRISTABEL AND JAMES GRANT
