Dr. Laura Loewen

In the Faculty:

Teaching activities:
    Collaborative Piano
    Language Studies (French, German, Italian Diction)
    Vocal Coach for Opera studies

Committee Member: Curriculum Committee, Faculty Artist Performance Series Committee

In the Community:


Contact:
Room 314 Music, (204) 474-9291, loewenl@cc.umanitoba.ca

On sabbatical July 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010

Dr. Laura Loewen Receives Prestigious Award
The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music is pleased to announce that Dr. Laura Loewen is this year's recipient of the Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Award in the category of Creative Works. Congratulations Dr. Loewen!  For the full story, click here.


Professional Bio:

Hailed as “exceptional” (Winnipeg Free Press), “fiercely committed” (Vancouver Sun), “virtuosic”, with “fingers that have no idea of what is possible on a keyboard, so they just go ahead and play what isn’t” (Halifax Chronicle Herald), Winnipeg collaborative pianist Laura Loewen has appeared in concerts throughout North America and in Europe and Asia. Dedicated to sharing her passion for ensemble playing and coaching, she is a professor of Collaborative Piano and the Vocal Coach at the University of Manitoba’s Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music. She is on the faculties of the NUOVA opera training program in Edmonton, Alberta, the Contemporary Opera Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and VISI (Vancouver International Song Institute).

Dr. Loewen has performed extensively with singers, instrumentalists and chamber ensembles.  She has appeared in concert with artists such as Charles Castleman, Tracy Dahl, Wendy Nielsen, Jasper Wood, Eugene Rousseau, and William Bennett, and is a regular recital partner of baritone Mel Braun and tenor Robert MacLaren. 

Loewen and duo partner, saxophonist Allen Harrington, have been performing together for the last seven years. Praised for their combination of virtuosity, musicality, and ensemble, the Harrington/Loewen duo has performed throughout North America and in Europe and Asia, including a Debut Atlantic tour of the Maritime provinces in February 2007. They were in residency at The Banff Centre in 2007 where they recorded a CD of Canadian Music for Saxophone and Piano, which includes two pieces commissioned by the duo. In July 2009 they presented the world premiere of Ice Fog by Örjan Sandred at The World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand and performed concerts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Loewen is a founding member of The Galileo Trio (“an enlightened idea” – Winnipeg Free Press) and Emerado (“true camaraderie and rapport” – Winnipeg Free Press). Her recordings include She Sings, She Screams, with saxophonist Richard Dirlam, and Roundabout (music of composer Robert Carl), with saxophonist Mark Engebretson. 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.