Rachael Lansang
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lansangr@newschool.edu
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Rachael Lansang is a university administrator, musicologist, and performer specializing in contemporary vocal repertoire. Dr. Lansang currently serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Mannes School of Music in New York City, where she develops curriculum for all music programs, manages academic planning, as well as providing faculty, advising, and student support. She also serves on the Music History faculty.
Prior to joining Mannes, Dr. Lansang served on the music faculty at Rutgers University and the University of Connecticut. At those institutions, she taught courses in opera performance, ethnomusicology, and music history. She is also part of the faculty at Rutgers Arts Online, where she teaches Introduction to the History of Opera.
Dr. Lansang completed her PhD in Musicology at Rutgers University; her dissertation, titled Songs for Contemporary Voices: Perspectives and Strategies of Women Making Music in the Twenty-First Century, addresses the vocal music of contemporary composers and performers though the lenses of new materialist philosophy, performance studies, and feminist theory. She has presented her research at national and international conferences. She also holds an M.M. and a B.M. in vocal performance from the University of Connecticut.
She is also an active performer and versatile mezzo-soprano. She has performed with opera companies and orchestras throughout the U.S. and Europe, including New Jersey State Opera, Hartford Opera Theater, Baltimore Bach Society, Opéra du Perigord, and Regina Opera, among others. She currently sings with the C4 Ensemble: the Choral Composer Conductor Collective in New York City.
Degrees Held
PhD, Musicology, Rutgers University ,2019
MM, Vocal Performance, University of Connecticut, 2010
BM, Vocal Performance, University of Connecticut, 2008