Rolf Erdahl, double bass, teaches bass at Gustavus Adolphus College and freelances in the Twin Cities area, including substitute work for the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Minnesota Opera.

Previously Principal Bass of the Winnipeg Symphony and Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and Assistant Principal Bass of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, he has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Miami Beach Basstet, and White Noise Chamber Players.

He has taught bass at the Luther College, Lutheran Summer Music Festival, the University of Manitoba, Ball State University, Wichita State University, the Sewanee Music Festival, and the North Carolina Governor’s School.

He graduated from St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, and the Peabody Conservatory. Fulbright and Scandinavian-American Foundation Scholar studies in Norway culminated in his doctoral dissertation on the music of Edvard Grieg. Eugene Levinson has been his major teacher. He has also studied with Chris Brown, Fred Bretschger, Peter Lloyd, Bruce Bransby, Paul Ellison, Hal Robinson, and James Clute.