Board Member

Turkish mezzo-soprano and Fulbright alumna Dr. Lori Şen is known for her versatility in many vocal genres, including opera, art song, musical theatre, and jazz, as well as for her teaching and research interests in vocal literature, voice pedagogy, and voice science. Lori regularly collaborates with musicians and composers across a variety of genres, and has performed in Turkey, Europe, and the United States. A leading expert of the Sephardic art song genre, Lori is the first ever to catalogue this repertoire that comprises Western classical settings and arrangements of the traditional Sephardic folk literature. She is also the first to create a Ladino diction guide exclusively for singers who would like to sing Sephardic songs in their original language. Since 2018, she has introduced this genre and her research to audiences through her solo recitals and lectures at various conferences, festivals, and organizations in the United States, and the Barcelona Festival of Song in Spain. Lori currently teaches as a Lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Music and an Adjunct Voice Faculty at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and Howard Community College. She also has an active performing and teaching schedule in the United States and abroad. She is honored to serve as an ambassador for the Barcelona Festival of Song, and as a board member of the International Florence Price Festival.