Laura Stanfield Prichard

Laura Stanfield Prichard

Expertise

History and Theory of Music, Conducting

Educational Background

Laura Stanfield Prichard is a conductor, musicologist, and vocalist specializing in choral music and modernism. She is a lecturer and writer for the summer Berkshire Choral Festival, teaches Music in Western Civilization this semester for the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and is the Director of Fine Arts for the Arlington, MA public schools. From 2003-2006, she conducted the award-winning SÄngerchor Boston, the oldest German-language choir in the US, and is an Assistant Conductor and Slavic Diction Coach for the New World Chorale, the choir-in-residence for the Longwood Symphony and the Boston Ballet. She taught music and dance at California State University-East Bay (Hayward) and San Francisco State University for eight years, and has presented lectures at the San Francisco Symphony since 1996.

Biosketch

Since moving to the Massachusetts in 2003, Ms. Prichard led the Boston-based Sharing a New Song Chorus on collaborative concert tours of South Africa and Vietnam and conducted the Yale Alumni Chorus in Moscow and the Netherlands.  She lecturers regularly for the Boston Baroque and Boston Ballet and directs the music program at the First Parish UU Church in Arlington, MA, which has led significant relief efforts and reconstruction trips to the UU churches of New Orleans. Alumni of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Volti (a professional chamber choir), she and her husband Michael perform regularly with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.