Emily Laurance holds Bachelor’s degrees from Oberlin College, an MM from the New England Conservatory and a Doctorate in Musicology from the UNC-Chapel Hill. Her 2003 dissertation was a study of Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise (1900) and its relationship to realist aesthetics in the operatic tradition. In addition to French opera and aesthetics, Dr. Laurance has research interests in 19th-century American music, the French romance of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the early pedal harp. She co-founded the duo DoubleAction (with tenor Thomas Gregg), an ensemble that specializes in harp-accompanied song from 1770-1840, which they perform using an 1829 single-action pedal harp. Her recording credits include Luciano Berio's Sequenza II on Neuma Records as well as the Squirrel Nut Zippers album Perennial Favorites, which won the Recording Institute Association of America's Gold Sales award. In 2005-2006 Dr. Laurance held a postdoctoral fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Before coming to the Conservatory, Dr. Laurance taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
Emily Laurance can be contacted at 415.503.6200 x6315.
