Laurie Redmer Minner is director of the Southern Adventist University Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since 2000. An associate professor of music, she also teaches viola, violin, string methods and conducting.

A violinist, violist, and vocalist, Minner has a bachelor’s degree in music education from Atlantic Union College and master’s degrees in viola performance and conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music. She has performed with the Boston Philharmonic, Symphony Pro Musica, the Salisbury Lyric Opera and the Salisbury Chamber Orchestra. She has also toured as a violinist, violist, vocalist and conductor in Europe, Australia, Asia, Russia and the United States.

Minner previously taught at Columbia Union College, the New England Conservatory Extension Division, Greater Boston and South Lancaster academies, the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Thayer Conservatory of Music. Prior to going to SAU, she taught at Columbia Union College, here she served also as Director of Choirs at Takoma Academy. In addition to overseeing the music education program, she taught viola, violin, and conducting, ran the Preparatory School of music at CUC, and conducted the Sligo Church choir.

As a conductor, she has led the Young People’s Philharmonia, Salisbury Singers, Symphony Pro Musica, and the Maryland Consort of Instruments.

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