Professor of Music
Assistant Chair, Music Division
Dr. Laura Artesani

Dr. Laura Artesani is the Assistant Chair of the Music Division for the School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine. She teaches courses in the areas of music history, music education, keyboard musicianship, and Women's Studies. She currently serves as the piano accompanist for three choral ensembles at the School of Performing Arts: the University Singers, the Oratorio Society and Athena Consort, and performs frequently at faculty and student recitals. She is the faculty advisor for the University of Maine Student Chapter of MENC, and has served as secretary for the Maine Music Teachers Association.

Dr. Artesani graduated summa cum laude from Barrington College in Rhode Island with a degree in music education, and received a M.M. in piano performance from the University of Maine. She earned a D.M.A. in piano performance from West Virginia University, where she was the recipient of the Swiger Teaching Fellowship for four years. In 1998, Dr. Artesani received a curriculum grant from the Women's Studies program at the University of Maine to develop a course entitled Women and Music. In 2001, she received a Diversity Across the Curriculum grant to support further research for this course.

In addition to her duties at the University of Maine, Dr. Artesani is also the Music Director at the Old Town United Methodist Church, where she directs the Adult, Youth and Handbell Choirs. She has taught at The Lincoln School in Providence, RI; Center Drive and North Orrington Schools in Orrington, ME; and the Stillwater Montessori School in Stillwater, ME.

laura.artesani@umit.maine.edu