Laura Gordy 1804 North Decatur Road Burlington Road Building, Room 214 Atlanta, GA 30322 404-712-1194 lagordy@emory.edu

Pianist Laura Gordy has performed solo and chamber music throughout the United States and in Europe, Latin America and Asia. She has distinguished herself as a champion and powerful interpreter of contemporary music, as well as classical repertoire. Dr. Gordy has commissioned and premiered over 75 new works for solo piano, voice and piano, and chamber ensemble. She co-founded and co-directed Thamyris, an award-winning ensemble that has pioneered new music since 1987. Her many recordings of contemporary music include De Toda la Eternidad (ACA) with soprano Bonnie Pomfret, Extension of a Dream (Albany), No Longer of that World (ACA), and A City Called Heaven (ACA). Dr. Gordy is also a sought-after collaborative recitalist and vocal coach, and a founding member of the Emory Gamelan Ensemble. Recent projects include an artistic residency in China, research trips to Belgium and Indonesia, and the commission and premiere of several new works for solo piano and chamber ensemble.

Dr. Gordy received degrees in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Summa cum laude), Rice University Shepherd School of Music, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. She studied piano with Aloys Kontarsky (in Cologne, Germany), Amanda Penick, Mary Norris Tipton, and Jeanne Kirstein, and harpsichord with Eiji Hashimoto. A member of the Emory music faculty since 1996, Dr. Gordy teaches piano, Javanese gamelan, theory, chamber music, and coaches singers and instrumentalists.