Field
of Study: Viola da Gamba
Education:
Graduate of Yale School of Music, studied viola da gamba with Wieland
Kuijken at the Brussels Conservatory.
Prizes:
Awards from the Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright foundations; former fellow
of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. As a finalist in the
EMA/Dorian Competition in 2000, her ensemble Charivary was named one
of the outstanding early music ensembles in the U.S. today.
Biographical
Information: Laura Jeppeson is the principal violist of Boston Baroque, gambist of the Boston Museum Trio, and plays in many early music groups, including the Handel and Haydn Society, The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Aston Magna and the Carthage Consort. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Designate, a Fellow of Harvard's Institute for Advanced Studies, and a Fulbright Scholar. In 2006, the Independent Critics of New England nominated her for an IRNE award for the score she produced as music director of the American Repertory Theater's staging of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. She has performed as soloist under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Edo de Waart, Seiji Ozawa, Martin Pearlman, Grant Llewellyn and Bernard Haitink.
Recordings:
Music for solo viola da gamba, gamba sonatas of J.S. Bach, Buxtehude's
Trio Sonatas, Opus 1 and 2, Telemann's Paris Quartets, music of Marin Marais.
Professional Affiliations: Faculty member at Wellesley College and Boston University.
