Laura J. Gray

Phone: 519-885-0220 x24247

Email: ljgray@uwaterloo.ca

Laura J. Gray, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Waterloo, received degrees in Music from the University of Western Ontario, the University of British Columbia, and a PhD in Music History from Yale University in 1997. In 1998, Laura joined the Department of Music at Conrad Grebel University College, where she teaches courses in Music History, Opera, Aesthetics, and World Music. Her main areas of research and publication include the music of Jean Sibelius, the 20th-Century British Symphony, and early 20th-century music criticism and aesthetics. She has conducted research in Finland, England, and New York, presented scholarly papers nationally and internationally, and has published in The Sibelius Companion, Sibelius Forum, Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario, Notes, and MusicWorks magazine. Laura gave two pre-concert lectures in 1999 at Lincoln Center in New York City for the North-American debut of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

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Selected activities

Writing

January, 2008: contributed an article on the music programme at Grebel to The Music Times: ?A Lively Life of Music at The University of Waterloo?

Conference papers

June 8, 2008: presented a paper entitled "Inventing Sibelius: Aspects of Myth-Making in the 'Sibelius Cult'" at the 2008 meeting of The Canadian University Music Society at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Teaching

February, 2008: recognized as Faculty of Arts Professor of the Month by the Arts Student Union -September, 2008: launching a new course for senior Music majors: Music 491 (Music Research Seminar)

Service

Board member: NUMUS, Inc. (New Music Organization based in Waterloo)

Sabbatical

January-June, 2009: Sabbatical: The majority of the sabbatical will be devoted to finishing and revising a book project on Sibelius reception in England, The Sibelius Cult? and the Myth of the Symphony?.