Laura Sherman
Harpist with WICKED
on Broadway
on Broadway
Biography
Laura Sherman enjoys a diverse and
well-traveled career. Currently the harpist at the Broadway show
WICKED, Laura has performed with the New York City Ballet, American
Symphony Orchestra, Greenwich Symphony (CT), the Spoleto Festivals in
Charleston, S.C. and Spoleto, Italy, and Opera North (N.H.), among
others.
As a soloist, Laura has performed with the OMNI Ensemble in Brooklyn, Waterbury Symphony (CT), and with the Borromeo String Quartet at the prestigious chamber music series Concerti di Mezzogiorno in Spoleto. In 1999, she gave a lecture-recital at the World Harp Congress in Prague, Czech Republic about her transcriptions for harp of J.S. Bach’s "Lute Suites." She will also give a lecture-recital on the same topic at the American Harp Society's 2012 Conference in New York City. Her urtext transcriptions of Bach's Lute Suites will be published by Gotham Harp Publishing in April 2012.
Laura has recorded Morton Feldman’s "Coptic Light" with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, and is featured on the Grammy award-winning cast recording of WICKED. Laura also performed on Barbra Streisand’s Grammy-nominated recording “Live in Concert 2006” and Ms. Streisand’s recently released DVD “The Concerts 2009.” Most recently, Laura can be heard on Steven Soderbergh's movie "The Informant!," starring Matt Damon, and on Broadway star Stephanie J. Block’s solo recording “This Place I Know.”
Laura has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad, with Barbra Streisand, the German orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica, and with three Broadway shows. And she has had the honor of performing with such diverse artists as Ray Charles, Luciano Pavarotti, Marvin Hamlisch, Jon Faddis, James Galway, and Joshua Bell.
A passionate lover of opera, Laura has had the pleasure of playing in productions at the Spoleto Festivals (Charleston and in Italy) and at Opera North (New Hampshire) of Tosca, Carmen, Wozzeck, Gotterdammerung, Dialogue of the Carmelites (Poulenc), Curlew River (Britten), Rosenkavalier, Salome, Elektra, Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek,) Tales of Hoffman, The Dwarf (Zemlinsky), La Traviata, The Nose (Shostakovich), The Merry Widow, Hansel and Gretel, Il Trittico (Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro), Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), and Madama Butterfly.
A graduate of Queens College (CUNY), Yale and the University of Michigan, Laura holds four degrees, three in harp performance and one in music theory. She has studied with Lynne Aspnes, Nancy Allen, Gloria Agostini, Susan Jolles, Mary Brigid Roman, and Elisa Dickon.
As a soloist, Laura has performed with the OMNI Ensemble in Brooklyn, Waterbury Symphony (CT), and with the Borromeo String Quartet at the prestigious chamber music series Concerti di Mezzogiorno in Spoleto. In 1999, she gave a lecture-recital at the World Harp Congress in Prague, Czech Republic about her transcriptions for harp of J.S. Bach’s "Lute Suites." She will also give a lecture-recital on the same topic at the American Harp Society's 2012 Conference in New York City. Her urtext transcriptions of Bach's Lute Suites will be published by Gotham Harp Publishing in April 2012.
Laura has recorded Morton Feldman’s "Coptic Light" with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, and is featured on the Grammy award-winning cast recording of WICKED. Laura also performed on Barbra Streisand’s Grammy-nominated recording “Live in Concert 2006” and Ms. Streisand’s recently released DVD “The Concerts 2009.” Most recently, Laura can be heard on Steven Soderbergh's movie "The Informant!," starring Matt Damon, and on Broadway star Stephanie J. Block’s solo recording “This Place I Know.”
Laura has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad, with Barbra Streisand, the German orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica, and with three Broadway shows. And she has had the honor of performing with such diverse artists as Ray Charles, Luciano Pavarotti, Marvin Hamlisch, Jon Faddis, James Galway, and Joshua Bell.
A passionate lover of opera, Laura has had the pleasure of playing in productions at the Spoleto Festivals (Charleston and in Italy) and at Opera North (New Hampshire) of Tosca, Carmen, Wozzeck, Gotterdammerung, Dialogue of the Carmelites (Poulenc), Curlew River (Britten), Rosenkavalier, Salome, Elektra, Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek,) Tales of Hoffman, The Dwarf (Zemlinsky), La Traviata, The Nose (Shostakovich), The Merry Widow, Hansel and Gretel, Il Trittico (Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro), Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), and Madama Butterfly.
A graduate of Queens College (CUNY), Yale and the University of Michigan, Laura holds four degrees, three in harp performance and one in music theory. She has studied with Lynne Aspnes, Nancy Allen, Gloria Agostini, Susan Jolles, Mary Brigid Roman, and Elisa Dickon.
