Laura Bowler is part of The Artist’s Table, a new initiative that brings together a group of artists living and making work in the North West of England to help identify and explore the skills artists need to develop now and in the future.
Laura Bowler is a composer and vocalist working across music theatre, multidisciplinary performance, concert music and opera. Her work brings together composition and performance, often placing her own voice at the centre of theatrical musical forms. She has been commissioned internationally by ensembles and orchestras including BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Goteborg Symfoniker, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Decoder Ensemble, Ensemble Phace, Basel Sinfonietta, Royal Ballet and Opera, and lovemusic collective. Her work, Wicked Problems, won the Royal Philharmonic Chamber Composition Prize, and several of her works have been shortlisted for Ivors. Recent projects include several large-scale multimedia music theatre works presented at festivals across Europe as well as a new 35 minute orchestral song cycle for Barbara Hannigan, setting text by the Nobel prize-winning author Han Kang. She is currently writing a chamber multimedia piano concerto for Zubin Kanga and Ensemble Klang, and following this a new two-act multimedia music theatre work for Crash Ensemble alongside her long term collaborator, Sam Redway. Laura is the Deputy Head of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, and the 26-27 Crash Ensemble Artist in Residence.