Laura Hynes portrait by Brooks Peterson

Dr. Laura Hynes

DMA
Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

office: 403.220.7505

Location

office: CHE121

Background

Educational Background

D.M.A. Music Performance, University of Minnesota, 2013

Cycle de perfectionnement Chant, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris (CNSMDP), 2006

M.M. Music Performance, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), 2002

B.M. Music Performance, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1999

Biography

A Fulbright scholar in Paris, soprano Laura Hynes has performed repertoire ranging from baroque opera with Les Arts Florissants to “classical cabaret” on French television and radio. She has performed opera roles, solo recitals, chamber music, new music, and concerts throughout Europe and North America, in venues including New York’s Alice Tully Hall, the Barbican in London, and the Châtelet and Cité de la Musique in Paris.

As Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Calgary, Hynes' research interests stretch across performance, pedagogy, and Alexander Technique. She has recently recorded works by Omar Daniel and John Corigliano with the Land’s End Ensemble and regularly premieres and champions new works by living composers. She was co-lead on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant in Research-Creation with the Key of T project on transgender voice transition, and she continues to develop her Raise Your Voice recitals at the intersection of song and social change.   
 
Hynes holds degrees from the University of Minnesota (DMA) where she was the Carolyn Bailey and Dominick Argento Fellow, the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP, Cycle de perfectionnement), the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (MM), and Miami University (BM). She is also currently pursuing Alexander Technique teacher training through the Balance Arts Center in NYC.

 

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
MUSI 10503 LAB 01 B01 Music Listening III 2021
MUSI 10503 LAB 01 B01 Music Listening III 2020
MUSI 221 LEC 01 01 Performance Practicum I 2020
MUSI 462 LEC 01 01 Junior Performance Project 2021
MUSI 521 LEC 01 01 Performance Practicum VII 2020
MUSI 52502 LEC 03 03 Topics in Music Performance 2021

Publications