Discipline: Music Composition

Laurie MacGregor

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Lyme, NH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979, 1981
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Laurie MacGregor has composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, the musical theatre, and children’s chorus. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she met and studied with her mentor, composer Meyer Kupferman. She also worked with composer Jon Appleton at Dartmouth College and received her Master’s Degree in Composition from Columbia University. Her musicals have been produced in theatres and schools across the country. Her concert music has been performed in the U.S. and abroad, and recorded on CDs and vinyl. She has held composer residencies and taught music and theatre in elementary, middle, and high schools. MacGregor’s music, composed in a variety of musical styles, is distinguished by lyrical melodies, syncopated rhythms, and sophisticated chord structures.

Studios

Irving Fine

Laurie MacGregor worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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