Virginia Hancock (Conductor)

Born: USA

The American conductor and teacher, Virginia Hancock, holds degrees in chemistry from Reed and Harvard University and a doctorate in music history from the University of Oregon.

Virginia Hancock is Professor of Music at Reed College in Oregon, directs the Reed Chorus and Collegium Musicum and teaches first-year music theory and a variety of music history courses.

Virginia Hancock is the author of Brahms's Choral Compositions and His Library of Early Music (Ann Arbor, 1983) and a number of articles on the subject of the composer's study and performance of Renaissance and Baroque music, his own choral music, and his songs.

Source: Reed College Website
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2010)

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