Laura Bowler
Laura Bowler, described as “a triple threat composer-performer-provocatrice” (The Arts Desk) is a composer, vocalist and Artistic Director specialising in theatre, multi-disciplinary work and opera.
Her recent projects, as of October 2022, include; The Blue Woman, a chamber opera commissioned by the Royal Opera House for their Engender Festival at the Linbury Theare; wicked problems for voice and bass flute performed by Laura and Ruth Morley, which won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition; a music theatre work, FFF, for ensemble and vocalist commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; Feminine Hygiene, a multimedia work for large ensemble and vocalist commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic and Sounds from the Other City Festival; Damned Mob of Scribbling Women- a 20 minute music theatre song cycle for Lucy Goddard which was nominated for a British Composer Award; Houses Slide an off-grid work for London Sinfonietta and Jessica Aszodi powered by bicycles; distance commissioned by sound, Spitalfields and Cheltenham music festivals; and Antarctica, a 50 minute multimedia work for orchestra and vocalist co-commissioned by Manchester Camerata and BBC Radio 3.
As a vocal soloist she has performed and premiered works internationally by composers such as Louis Aguirre and Jennifer Walshe, and she is the vocalist in contemporary music ensemble, Ensemble Lydenskab based in Aarhus, Denmark.
Laura completed her BMus (Hons) at the RNCM and Sibelius Academy (Finland), followed by her MMus and PhD at the Royal Academy of Music. She also completed an MA in Theatre Directing at RADA. She is currently Lecturer in Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Northern College of Music.
Photograph by Robin Clewley
