Annie Laver has been named to a one-year appointment as assistant professor of organ and university organist at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. She will teach organ lessons and classes, coach the Baroque Chamber Ensemble with voice professor Janet Brown, serve as artistic director for the Malmgren Concert Series, accompany the Hendricks Chapel Choir, and play for the Methodist ecumenical chapel services and special university events. Laver served as instructor of healthy keyboard technique and organ repertoire, and coordinator of organ outreach programs at the Eastman School of Music for the last three years. She has led volunteer and professional choir programs in a variety of parishes in New York, Wisconsin, and the Netherlands.
Annie Laver performs frequently in the United States and Europe, and has been a featured recitalist and clinician at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, the Society for Seventeenth Century Music, and the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative Festival. In 2010, she was awarded second prize in the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artist Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP).
Laver studied organ with Mark Steinbach as an undergraduate student at Brown University, and spent a year in the Netherlands studying with Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. While pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees at the Eastman School of Music, she studied with Hans Davidsson, William Porter, and David Higgs.
