 One work from the CD, "President Thomforde's March," was written for and premiered at St. Olaf College Inauguration Weekend in April 2000.Een earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in violin performance and literature at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where she studied with Paul Rolland.Her dissertation "Comparison of Melodic Variants in the Hardingfele Repertoire of Norway" was advised by ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl.