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About

Kristen S. Hansen is Associate Professor of Music in the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University (Georgia). She holds the DMA and the MM in Horn Performance and Literature from the Eastman School Music in Rochester, New York, and she previously received the degree Bachelor of Music summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her teachers in horn have included Peter Kurau, Kendall Betts, and Verne Reynolds. After completing Master's coursework in Rochester, Dr. Hansen was the director of high school and middle school bands in the Fonda-Fultonville district in central New York. Concurrently, she played as assistant and then principal horn with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra. She has taught and performed at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp, and has appeared as a Regional Artist and a lecturer at annual conventions of the International Horn Society and the Southeast Horn Workshop. She was a founding member of the Barry Tuckwell Institute and for ten years held the position of second horn with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. With the CSU Horn Studio, she has hosted the Southeast Horn Workshop twice, as well as the International Horn Competition of America. In August 2010 she performed with the Vianden Festival in Luxembourg. Dr. Hansen also performs regular recitals, including the popular “Music and Tea” series. She has authored an undergraduate theory text and teaches theory, humanities, music history, and counterpoint. In 2013 she directed an innovative re-creation of a mace of Ben Jonson, the third performance of the work since its inception. Dr. Hansen directs the Baroque Consortium, another collaboration of area artists in which she also plays continuo. She is also the organist-choir director at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. Dr. Hansen delights in leading study abroad experiences to Denmark and Oxford and in the off hours makes books for her niece and nephew.

Live from the stage/my workspace

Live from the stage/my workspace

 

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I double-majored in Illustration and Communication Arts at the Hugo Design Institute. After interning for famed graphic artist Veruca Mafnas, I went on to design at ad agency Showcase, where I worked for nearly three years.

I balanced my day job with personal creative work, like collage and woodblock printing, which garnered attention from a few indie publishers. Eventually, I got offers from more established magazines, so I decided to design for Showcase on a freelance basis. This allowed me to work on other cool projects, from emerging brands to current events.

My creative approach—no matter the medium—is to find points of tension behind the idea I’ve been assigned or am interested in. I do several iterations on each point and usually end up refining the one I find most controversial.

For me, controversy isn’t about instigation, but rather, a way to arrest your audience. It’s a way to plant a little bit of desire in their hearts; a yearning to turn the page and learn more about your idea. Ultimately, it’s about creating memorable images.

 

 

 

 

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