Lecturer, Viola da Gamba, Historical Performance
Laura Jeppesen is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and studied the viola da gamba at the Brussels Conservatory. Her Boston affiliations are as gambist with The Boston Museum Trio and Charivary, and as violist with the Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. She has appeared in music festivals and concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan with a number of early-music ensembles, including the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Sequentia. She has been a soloist under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Martin Pearlman, Edo de Waart, and Seiji Ozawa. Her extensive discography includes music for solo viola da gamba, the gamba sonatas of J.S. Bach, Buxtehude’s Trio Sonatas opus 1 and 2, Telemann’s Paris Quartets and Marais’ La Gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie. She has received awards from the Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright foundations and is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. She is on the faculty of Wellesley College as well as Boston University.