Laura Prichard's Personal Pages

Favorite Links: a list of Adventures I have had (or want to have) & see Links page
Born: August 27, 1968, Charleston, IL
Married: September 6, 1999 to Michael James Prichard at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA.

Mike: Mike is Head of Product Design for Logic Design in Myanard, MA. He co-founded a new company named oQo in San Francisco. CA. A baritone singer and engineer, he holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT (1992). We met while singing in the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and have two Maine Coon cats and a large black cat with no name.

My car "Fledermaus":

Mike's Citroën (it's really green):

Relatives: the Stanfield family history, Jason Stanfield (brother), Lucy Stanfield (sister), Lisa Stanfield (sister), Patsy Lou Darr (mother), David Lincoln Stanfield (father), Citation from the Illinois State Assembly for Abraham Lincoln Stanfield (grandfather), Alexia Prichard (sister-in-law) Baber/Hanks Family, O'Hair Family connection, Cherokee Rolls

Friends / Colleagues: Lino Rivera

Major Teachers: Nicholas Temperley (musicology), Claude Palisca (Baroque music history), Bruno Nettl (ethnomusicology), William Brooks (contemporary music), Ann Howard Jones (choral conducting), Alasdair Neale (instrumental conducting), William Warfield (voice), Jan DeGaetani (twentieth-century art song), Robert Shaw (Festival Singers member)

Favorite Musical Groups (excluding chamber choirs): Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lyle Lovett's Large Band, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the Yale Glee Club

Favorite chamber choirs: the San Francisco Chamber Singers, the Sixteen, the Cambridge Singers, the Tallis Scholars, Out of the Blue of Yale, and Sängerchor Boston

Interests / Obsessions: musical instruments, Healy fifes, Old American cars, cats, sheep, American history, travel, the Monterey peninsula, the San Francisco Bay area, chocolate, swing dancing, cool satellite photos.

Pet Peeves: Traffic (click here and here to see why I was late for rehearsals in San Francisco!), taxes, WIDE vibrato.

A TRUE Factoid! Laura used to ride POAs competitively.

*For the record, I am not the (now graduated) sportswriter and forward for the LSU Soccer Team Laura Prichard, nor the Laura Prichard who is an award-winning writer and editor at Northwest Missouri State University. I am also not the Laura Stanfield who programs country music for Boombox Radio.