Andrea Een (born January 22, 1947) is a violinist, violist, Hardanger fiddler, poet, and Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College.
[4] In 2002, she was awarded St. Olav's Medal by H.M. Harald V of Norway for helping to reintroduce the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition to the United States.
[5] She received the Ole Bull Award, from the eponymous academy in Voss, Norway, in 1987, and was accredited as a Master Folk Artist Teacher by the Minnesota State Arts Board in 1998.
One work from the CD, "President Thomforde's March,"[6] was written for and premiered at St. Olaf College Inauguration Weekend in April 2000.
[5] Een earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in violin performance and literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she studied with Paul Rolland.