About the director
Mary E. Larew is a native of Iowa City, Iowa, where she studied violin and piano at the Preucil School of Music. Now a senior music composition major at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Larew has studied composition with Lewis Nielson, Randolph Coleman, Jeffrey Mumford, and Marilyn Shrude and violin with Kyung Sun Lee.
Larew's greatest passion is Medieval and Renaissance music. At Oberlin, she has performed as a soloist and ensemble member of the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense and is co-founder of the a cappella consort Uncloistered. In January 2004, Larew directed a production of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum, with performances in Oberlin and Cleveland. She has also performed with the Renaissance wind band Ciaramella, and can be found on their CD War ich ein Falk, which will be released by Naxos this summer. Upon graduation from the Oberlin Conservatory, Larew plans to study early vocal performance practice and ensemble singing with Dr. John Potter at the University of York under the aegis of a 2005 Marshall Scholarship.