Soprano

Laura Thomas is a Boston-based soprano specializing in early and sacred music. She holds an M.M. in Historical Performance (Voice) from Boston University. She has appeared as a soloist in the cantatas Susanne and Judith with Cappella Clausura, Handel's Messiah with the Schola of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, and Monteverdi's Vespers with the Stonehill Collegiate Chorale. Laura is a dedicated choral musician, regularly performing with Carduus, Cappella Clausura, Ensemble Altera and Ensemble Laetare. Her most recent choral engagement was Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel at the Boston Symphony Orchestra with members of Carduus. She is a soprano choral scholar at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.

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Additionally, Laura is an enthusiastic performer of new music. She has recorded new compositions with Vox Futura and Carduus and sung commissioned works with the Marsh Chapel Choir. She also performs medieval-influenced improvisatory music with electroacoustic ensemble Silica Gel, co-founded with musicians Lauren Jones, Jasper Lee, and Joel Nelson, and based in her native Birmingham, Alabama. The quartet have released albums on Noumenal Loom and Sweet Wreath Records. Their next album is slated to be released later in 2023.

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Off the stage, Laura has conducted research on the early music movement, particularly as it relates to popular culture and femininity. She presented her paper Leaving Eden: Early Music's Changing Cultural Influences at the Medieval and Renaissance Musicology Conference in Basel, Switzerland.