Department of Music
Faculty
Laurie Anne Hunter
Applied Voice
A native of Pasadena, California, Laurie Anne Hunter received her B.A. from the University of Winnipeg and her Masters from the Juilliard School in New York. She spent five seasons as an Assistant Conductor and Vocal Coach with the New York City Opera, making her conducting debut there with Marc Blitzstein's "Regina" in 1992. Guest conducting appearances followed with the New England Lyric Operetta, Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Laurie was Associate Conductor of Phantom of the Opera in Toronto and ShowBoat on Broadway. She has served as Assistant Conductor and Vocal Coach for the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Augusta Opera, Mobile Opera, Boston Concert Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild's educational productions. She was also head of the music staff for two years at the Banff Centre's Music Theater program in Canada. She worked with American Musical Theater of San Jose and the Seattle Opera before the Oregon Shakespeare Festival brought her to Ashland as Musical Director and Pianist for "Enter the Guardsman" in 2001.
She has been on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music, the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, the Musicians Club of America summer Opera and Lieder Institutes in North Carolina, and is currently on the adjunct faculty at Southern Oregon University. She recently took up the harp as a student in the "Music for Healing and Transition Program" and now plays therapeutic harp music for Providence Hospice in Medford. She also sings
with the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers.
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