Dr. Anthony Olson is assistant professor of music at Northwest Missouri State University. He has performed throughout the United States and China, and has had live recordings broadcast on National Public Radio. An active stage director and conductor as well as a pianist, he has directed and conducted numerous operas including George Gershwin’s Blue Monday, Gustav Holst’s The Wandering Scholar, Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge, Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienna and Little Red Ridinghood by Seymour Barab.