Soprano Laura Loge has been hailed for her “luminous stage presence” and “characterful and versatile voice.” Opera roles include Gudrid (Leif Erikson), Violetta (La Traviata), Musetta (La Bohème), Micaëla (Carmen), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Lisa (La Sonnambula), La Fée (Cendrillon), Pousette (Manon), Heron, Raven & Eagle (Our Earth), Lucy (The Telephone), Guadalena and Ninetta (La Perichole), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Second Lady (Magic Flute), Goddess Diana (Iphigénie en Aulide), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica) and Miss Silverpeal (The Impresario). On the concert stage she has performed as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Incidental Music to Egmont, Nielsen’s Symphony no. 3, Fauré’s Requiem, Grieg’s Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, Foran Sydens Kloster, and Peer Gynt, Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs arranged for two pianos, David Monrad-Johansen’s Syv Sanger arranged for chamber orchestra and soprano, Elfrida Andrée’s Suffrage Cantata, Schumann’s Mass and Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Rutter’s Requiem, and Verdi’s Requiem. She has appeared with the Seattle Opera, Puget Sound Opera, Rimrock Opera, Intermountain Opera, Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc., Puget Sound Concert Opera, Boston Opera Collaborative, Longwood Opera, Icicle Creek Music Center, Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series, Second City Chamber Music Series, Thalia Symphony, Wenatchee Valley Symphony, Philharmonia Northwest, Seattle Modern Orchestra, Sammamish Symphony, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Bremerton Symphony, Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra as well as numerous concerts and recitals. During the pandemic, Laura appeared in virtual concerts with the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society, the Grieg Society of Minnesota, Music Center of the Northwest, and Tacoma Opera’s Intermezzo series.
Ms. Loge specializes in Nordic art song which she has performed across the United States and in Norway. For Crossings 200, the 2025 commemoration of 200 years of Norwegian immigration to North America, she and pianist Steven Luksan toured throughout the Midwest, Northwest, and across Norway with a program of works by Norwegian immigrants entitled Musical Migration. She toured the Northwest with pianist Sandra Mogensen performing a concert of Grieg’s Opuses 33 & 66, sang several times for and was the Honorary Marshal for Ballard’s syttende mai parade, was the featured soloist at the Scandinavian Cultural Center’s Greater Tacoma Peace Prize banquet and the Ballard Sons of Norway. She organized and presented memorial concerts in Seattle, Washington D. C. and New York City in response to the 2011 terror attack in Norway, has performed Songs for Soprano and Orchestra by Edvard Grieg, has been featured frequently in the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series, has given numerous recitals at the Nordic Heritage Museum and other venues around Seattle, and appeared on the radio broadcasts, Live By George and Northwest Focus Live. She has released two CDs entitled, Breaking the Language Barrier: Songs in Norwegian and Danish, Composed by Foreigners, and Songs & Piano Music of Edvard Grieg; Op. 33 & 66. She anticipates the release of a new album Der skreg en fugl with pianist Angela Draghichescu, featuring songs by Norwegian women which have not been previously recorded. Musical Migration will be recorded in 2025. She performed in Edvard Grieg’s villa in Bergen, Norway as part of the 2015 International Workshop on the Songs of Edvard Grieg. She is the Artistic Director of Nordic Chamber Music, the Founder and President of the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society, the Music Series Coordinator at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, and the former Artistic Director of the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle.
Ms. Loge was the Norwegian expert, translating, phonetically transliterating and recording texts of sixteen songs for a new three volume anthology of Nordic songs entitled Midnight Sun, compiled and edited by Mimmi Fulmer of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, published by Subito Music. She coaches singers and gives presentations, workshops, and masterclasses on Norwegian lyric diction and song repertoire to students of all ages. Her scholarly presentations include the International Edvard Grieg Society conference in Bergen, Crossings and Connections NORTANA/NAHA at St. Olaf College, the Cascade Song Festival in both Eugene and Seattle, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, and the Edvard Grieg Society of the Great Lakes conference. She has given workshops and masterclasses at the Grieg Academy, the University of Tromsø Conservatory of Music, the University of Stavanger Conservatory of Music, Whitman College, St. Martin’s University, Luther College, Winona State University, the University of Portland, Central Washington University, Linfield College, Westby High School, Tuddal Montessori School, and Aquillon Music Festival.
Ms. Loge received her Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from St. Olaf College. She was awarded a scholarship to study Nordic art song and chamber music at the University of Stavanger Conservatory of Music in Norway, studied Italian bel canto technique and repertoire with Signora Rosanna Lippi in Padova, Italy, and as a student of Edward Zambara, she received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory.
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