Profiles

Laura Bowler is a young composer and mezzo-soprano living and working in London. Her work is influenced by many composers and artists ranging from Stephen Sondheim to Harrison Birtwistle, the paintings of Kandinsky to the theatre of Antonin Artaud. Her passion for working in the theatre is apparent in her compositional output with numerous theatre pieces alongside many concert works with a theatrical influence or performance quality. Laura is currently working on commissions for the York Contemporary Music Festival, a work in which she will be performing as the mezzo-soprano soloist, theGrimeborn Opera Festival; a collaboration with the award-winning playwright Lavinia Murray, ROH2; a long term project aiming towards a full-length chamber opera and the Azalea Ensemble for which she will also be performing as the vocal soloist. She has been commissioned by The Opera Group, ROH2, Tete a Tete Opera, Grimeborn Opera, Opera Genesis, London Sinfonietta, Esbjerg Ensemble, Neue Vocalisten Soloists, The Kreutzer Quartet among others and has received performances throughout Europe and in the USA. In the past Laura has been accepted as a scholarship student to several composition summer schools including the Voix Nouvelles Composition Course at the Fondation Royaumont with Brian Ferneyhough, the IMD Darmstadt summer school and the Dartington International Festival Advanced Composition course with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.Having completed her BMus (Hons) at the Royal Northern College of Music and as an Erasmus scholar at the Sibelius Academy of Music, Laura completed her MMus in Compositionat the Royal Academy of Music studying with Gary Carpenter gaining a Distinction, generously supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Scholarship. She is now a fully funded AHRC Sholaron the PhD programme at the Royal Academy of Music.