VISI Faculty: Laura Loewen
Collaborative
pianist Laura Loewen, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has appeared in
concerts throughout Canada and the United States. She is a professor
of Collaborative Piano/Vocal Coach at the University of Manitoba. She
is on the faculties of the NUOVA opera training program in Edmonton,
Alberta, the Contemporary Opera Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has worked
as a vocal coach at the Centro Studi Lirica opera program in Urbania,
Italy.
Dr. Loewen has performed extensively with singers, instrumentalists and chamber ensembles. She has appeared in recital with Jasper Wood, Wendy Nielsen, and saxophone virtuoso Eugene Rousseau, and is a regular recital partner of baritone Mel Braun and saxophonist Allen Harrington. Her recordings include She Sings, She Screams, with saxophonist Richard Dirlam, and Roundabout (music of composer Robert Carl), with saxophonist Mark Engebretson. The Harrington/Loewen duo will record their first CD in 2007, and will tour the Maritime provinces in February 2007 with Debut Atlantic.
Ms. Loewen holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Accompanying / Coaching from the University of Minnesota, where she was a fellowship student of Margo Garrett and Karl Paulnack. In addition to her studies there, she spent two summers at the Music Academy of the West studying vocal accompanying with Warren Jones, and worked with Martin Katz and Graham Johnson at SongFest ’98.