Laura Reid is a composer whose music fuses vocal, instrumental, electronic and field recorded sounds. Her music has been broadcast on BBC radio, performed internationally and can be found online at the British Music Collection. Recent collaborations include working with AV artists The Light Surgeons at IKLECKTIK (4/2/23), R&D for I am Seagull, MAST Southampton, COMA festival and Sound walk development for National Trust, Studland and Swanage Pier. Commissions include pop up Opera DETRITUS for Royal Opera House Lost and Found event (03/2022) with librettist Oge Nwosu and a Variation for Fenella Humphreys Caprices album (Rubicon Classics 2022). Laura has presented and performed work at international festivals including: Tête à Tête the Opera Festival; WOMAD; Celtic Connections; New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Sound Music and Computing (SMC), Inside Out and Glastonbury. Laura created a Song Cycle, with her PRSF Composers Award developing new work for Gweneth Ann Rand, and Allyson Devenish; Songs of Hope premiered at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023, and Inside Out Festival as a sound trail. She was previously awarded Arts Council DYCP funding to develop her work with technology resulting in sound walks for National Trust and her commission for the Dorset Moon “Celestial Bodies” for silent disco head sets. Always keen to try new things, Laura enjoys working with a range of musicians and vocalists and worked with tabla player Khulfit Bhamra on new work for Tabla using his notation system, she also attended the Dartington Summer School where she attended the Bozzini Composer’s lab, composing new work for the Quator Bozzini. @laurareidmusic

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