Julieanne Rabens, composer and harpist, currently lives in the Twin Cities, Minnesota with her husband Marty who is a virtual reality software engineer. She teaches harp, is a freelance performer, and commissioned composer.

Rabens was an assistant professor of music at Union College from 2000-2002, teaching music history, counterpoint, world music, music technology, piano pedagogy, composition, piano, and harp. Prior to that appointment she taught composition through Lincoln Public School’s mentoring program for gifted students and was a graduate teaching assistant in composition, music theory, and jazz history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Rabens completed a master of music in harp from Northern Illinois University in 2004, a doctor of musical arts in composition with a minor in piano pedagogy from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002, and a master of music in composition from UNL in 1995. She received her bachelor’s degree in music, with an emphasis in composition, highest honors, from Union College in 1993, as well as an associate of science in art in 1996.

She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Minnesota Composers Forum, Healing Harps, and Great Lakes Harpers.