Emily Laurance holds bachelor’s degrees in English and harp from Oberlin College, a M.M in Harp from the New England Conservatory and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her 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 historical performance. As a harpist, she co-founded the duo DoubleAction (with tenor Thomas Gregg), an ensemble that specializes in harp-accompanied song, particularly repertoire from 1770-1840, which they perform using an 1829 single-action pedal harp. Before coming to the Conservatory, she taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University.
Emily Laurance can be contacted at 415.503.6200 x6315.
