Drawn to the new, the audacious, and the complex, the Hayley-Laufer Duo challenges the boundaries of voice-and-piano composition by commissioning exciting young artists while cultivating a core repertoire of twentieth and twenty-first century masterworks. Former Visiting Scholars at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Visiting Artists at University at Buffalo’s Creative Arts Initiative, they have performed in the USA, Canada, Europe and South America, and traversed centuries of song repertoire with an emphasis on the electrifying music of today.
Dorothea Hayley is a former Visiting Faculty Artist at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. She teaches voice at Vancouver Community College and is the Artistic Co-Director of the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival.
Currently Director of Collaborative Piano Studies at New York University, Manuel Laufer has performed with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic and appears yearly in the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival and the NYU Summer Piano Intensive.
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