Laney Armstrong

Laney McClain Armstrong is the Director of Choral Studies at the San Francisco Girls Chorus and is an active teacher and conductor.  As a conductor and educator, Dr. Armstrong strives to cultivate a love of music in each singer through quality programming, building skills and musicianship, and devotion to the music and texts. She has toured internationally with choral ensembles as a singer and was one of the founding members of the Choral Fellows program at Harvard University in 2001. Dr. Armstrong has worked with singers of many ages, teaching middle school and high school, serving as the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Musicianship at the Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley, and as the Artistic Director of the San Francisco-based women's ensemble, Musae.

Dr. Armstrong holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in Afro-American Studies and a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Oregon under the direction of Dr. Sharon Paul. In 2013, she received a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington, where she studied with Dr. Geoffrey Boers. Her dissertation explores the life of the Estonian composer and his arrangements of folk hymns, focusing on those written for treble voices. Dr. Armstrong holds a Level I Certification in Kodaly teaching and has prepared singers to sing with the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, and Opera Parallel.