Laurie E Lashbrook

Title: Professor, Area Chair
Dept/Program: Music - Voice
Office: GH 362
Phone: 330-972-2316
Email: lashbro@uakron.edu

Biography

Dr. Laurie Lashbrook (soprano) is Professor of Music and chair of piano, string, and voice areas in The University of Akron School of Music, where she teaches voice, vocal pedagogy, and song literature. An accomplished performer in recital, oratorio, and opera, she has sung throughout the United States and internationally. She has developed expertise in the music of Czech composers and has been an invited lecturer and performer at the Wagner Symposium, the Czech and Slovak Music and Related Arts Conference, the International Conference on the Arts in Society in Australia, the International Czech and Slovak Competition, the 2020 and 2024 OMEA Professional Development Conference, 2020 National Association of Teachers of Singing National Conference, 2022 PAVA Symposium, and Moravian Master Class in the Czech Republic. Dr. Lashbrook has served on the adjudication panel for the American International Czech and Slovak Voice Competition in 2019 and 2022. In 2009, acclaimed Czech composer Sylvie Bodorová wrote her song cycle Jabloňový Vlak [Apple Train] for Lashbrook, pianist Timothy Cheek, and dancer Bohuslava Jelinková. Dr. Lashbrook served on the faculty of the Vianden International Music Festival and School in Luxembourg. Her students have gone on to have successful careers as music educators at the primary, secondary, and university level and successful performing careers with the Minnesota Opera, San Francisco Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Indianapolis Opera, and Resonance Works.