Lawrence is thrilled to host the national conference of SEAMUS, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.  Over the next three days our conservatory will host thirteen recitals, multiple paper sessions, and numerous sound installations. With over 200 hundred passionate musicians participating in this musical celebration, I am... Read more

I am very excited to announce our new forward-looking internship program, Conservatory Squared: Grow Your Music Career Exponentially. This is a wonderful addition to our four year effort to expand the scope of a conservatory education well beyond the confines of the practice room, performance hall, and class room. Here... Read more

I am thrilled to announce that through a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Conservatory has been able to add a two year visiting professorship in dance. With music and dance so closely linked, it has always struck me as odd that a conservatory as old, distinguished, and multi-faceted... Read more

We are musicians. We have spent countless hours in practice rooms refining our technique and nurturing our musicianship. But for so many of us, improvisation, the art of spontaneous musical creation, is not a part of our artistic essence. We all too often equate improvisation only with jazz, and usually... Read more