Biography:
Dr. Laurine Elkins-Marlow teaches Music 201 – Music and Human Experience each semester, as well as Women in Music and Musical Instruments–Sounds and Symbols. At Texas A&M University she has also taught The Symphony and Its Music, Music in Early Western Culture, Music in Modern Western Culture, Music in the 20th Century, Music Fundamentals, and Piano. She earned her M.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, and her B.Mus. degree in Piano and Theory from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Her research interests regard women in music include the Canadian-American composer Gena Branscombe, orchestral works by women, women musicians in the movies, and the cultural contributions of women’s clubs and music clubs. An early music enthusiast, she sings with the St. Cecilia Consort, and performed harpsichord and organ solos on the Bach 2000 B-CS concert series, which she also organized. She has served as organist and organist/choir director for several area churches, and is active in the American Guild of Organists, Brazos Valley Chapter.
