Academic Background

MA MPhil PhD Columbia University Premier Prix, Diplome supérieur, Royal Conservatoire Brussels Previous academic posts: Yale University University of Chicago Stanford University Royal Academy of Music King's College London

Undergraduate Teaching

History of Music (1600-1900), Music Analysis, Musical Performance

Research Interests

J.S. Bach, Wagner, English Consort Music (16th and 17th centuries), theory and practice of musical analysis and criticism, theories of musical performance, practice-based research in early music and chamber music

Selected Publications

Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works. Studies in the History of Music, 3. Harvard University Press, 1987.

Bach and the Patterns of Invention. Harvard University Press, 1996

Early Music Defended against its Devotees: A Theory of Historical Performance in the Twentieth Century. The Musical Quarterly 69 (1983)

The Hermeneutics of Lament: A Neglected Paradigm in a Mozartian Trauermusik. Music Analysis 10 (1991)

Hermann Levi's shame and Parsifal's guilt: A critique of essentialism in biography and criticism. Cambridge Opera Journal 6 (1994)

Music and Motive in Thomas Mann's Wäsungenblut, London German Studies VIII (2003)

Beyond the Interpretation of Music, Dutch Journal of Music Theory 12 (2007)

Johann Sebastian Bach. Sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027-1029. Laurence Dreyfus, viola da gamba and Ketil Haugsand, harpsichord (Simax PCD 1024, 1986)

The echoing Air: Music of Henry Purcell with Sylvia McNair, soprano, Christopher Hogwood, harpsichord, Paul O'Dette, archlute, and Laurence Dreyfus, cello and viola da gamba. (Philips 446 081-2, 1995) Winner of the 1995 Grammy Award for the Best Classical Vocal Recording

Henry Purcell. The Complete Fantasias for Viols. Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus, director (Simax PSC 1124, 1996) Winner of the 1997 Gramophone Award - Best Baroque (Non-Vocal) Recording. Diapason d'Or (April 2003). Choc du Monde de la Musique (April 2003).

JS Bach, Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (1-11, 19). WA Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugues arranged for Strings, K405, Fuga, K401 Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus, director (Simax Classics PSC 1135, 1998).

Orlando Gibbons, Consorts for Viols, Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus, director (AVIE AV 0032, 2004) 2004 Gramophone Award Winner, finalist Gramophone Record of the Year