Marian Andersen – Director of Music

I’m the Clinical Trials Manager in the Cancer Center of the University of Iowa Hospitals. My husband, David, is an electrical engineering professor at the U of Iowa. Dave’s son, Tycho, is a graduate student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. My daughter, Beth, is a senior at Iowa State University, majoring in French and secondary education, and my son, Mark, is a freshman at Iowa State. He’s still working on what he wants to be when he grows up!

What do you do at SUMC?

Play the piano, direct the choir and organize special music for worship.

What’s Your Favorite Restaurant?

Devotay is high on my list. There’salso a restaurant in Chicago that I enjoy very much called MK.

What’s on your iPod/Car Radio?

Either classical music or NPR

What’s on Your Bookshelf?

Fiction, biographies, novels and plenty of dust. I’m too busy reading to clean…

What’s Your Claim to Fame?

My claim to fame is that jazz singer Al Jarreau was at my house the night I was born. He was dating my aunt at the time and they happened to spend that fateful night in Marshalltown. I got to meet him after a concert when I was in college. Very exciting!

What do you do in your free time?

I read a lot of books – fiction and nonfiction. I like to cross stitch and am learning to knit. I love the Cubs and watch them on tv whenever I can. And, of course, I love to play the piano!

 

 

To contact me: info@soloniaumc.org