Previous Engagements

2025

Peer Gynt

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society in collaboration with the Thalia Symphony and Choir of the Sound.
  • Live performance Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 3:00 pm at Shorewood High School Performing Arts Center (map)
    • Available online through March 31
    • Online tickets available here
  • Laura sang the soprano solos in this over-the-top production of Edvard Grieg’s Incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, complete with a slew of musicians, folk dancers, actors, disembodied voices, and extravagant adventures to far off exotic places.

Erkki Melartin Jubilee

  • Presented by the Saltwater Music Series
  • Sunday, February 1 , 2025 @ 7:00 pm at Des Moines United Methodist Church (map)
  • Donations accepted at the door to support the series and a local charity
  • Laura and pianist Steven Luksan performed songs by Finnish impressionist composer Erkki Melartin to celebrate his 150th birthday.

Organ Plus in Thomsen Chapel

  • Presented by the Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral Music Series
  • Friday, January 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
  • Sunday, January 19, 2025 @ 3:00 pm
  • Thomsen Chapel at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle (map)
  • Tickets and info available here
  • Laura and Saint Mark’s Associate Organist John Stuntebeckbrought Scandinavian church music to Thomsen Chapel exploring ancient Norwegian stevtoner, Danish organ works, Swedish church arias, folk song and hymns, and settings of religious texts up to the present.

2024

Sing & Play-Along Messiah

  • Hosted by Saint Michael and All Angels Church
  • Sunday, December 15, 2024 @ 2:30 pm at St. Michael & All Angels Church (map)
  • Donations accepted to benefit Issaquah Community Services’ “Merry Christmas Fund”
  • Laura once again sang the Soprano solos as well as singing along with everybody else!

Sangerfest 2024

  • Presented by the Pacific Coast Norwegian Singers Association
  • Saturday, June 29, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
  • St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Federal Way (map)
  • Tickets and info available here
  • Laura will be the soloist for Grieg’s “Ved Rondane” performed with Norwegian Mannskor singers from the west coast.

Norwegian Reinvention

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society  in collaboration with The Sound Ensemble and Common Tone Arts
  • Saturday, June 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm at Kenworthy Performing Arts Center, Moscow, ID (map)
  • Sunday, June 9, 2024 @ 3:00 pm at The Seasons, Yakima (map)
  • Monday, June 10, 2024 @ 7:00 pm at First Free Methodist Church, Seattle (map)
  • Tickets and info available here
  • Laura performed David Monrad Johansen’s Syv sanger, Op. 6 arranged for sinfonietta by Adam Stern with members of The Sound Ensemble, as well as a US premiere of Agnes Ida Pettersen’s Gjendines Bådenlåt.

Alf Hurum Centennial – mini-series

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society
  • Monday, March 4, 2024 @ 7:00 pm at Lutheran Church of Honolulu (map)
  • Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 11:30 am at Hawai’i State Library, Honolulu (map)
  • Saturday, April 27, 2024 @ 7:00 pm at Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma (map)
  • Sunday, April 28, 2024 @  4:00 pm at W. W. Seymour Conservatory, Tacoma (map)
  • Saturday, May 4, 2024 @ 6:00 pm at Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds (map)
  • Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm at Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle (map)
  • Tickets and info available here
  • In a mini-series of two different concerts, Laura sang songs by Alf Hurum with pianist Steven Luksan in art museums in Tacoma and Edmonds with Hurum’s own paintings projected alongside the music, and solos in his works Lilja for a capella men’s chorus, as well as an arrangement of Emigrantsvisa arranged for string quartet and voice by SPU student Nathan Molvik in botanical conservatories in Tacoma and Seattle.

Nordic Chamber Music: Norway – Der skreg en fugl

  • Presented by Nordic Chamber Music produced by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society
  • Sunday, March 17, 2024 @ 3:00 pm at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Seattle
  • Friday, March 22, 2024 @ 7:00 pm on KING FM Northwest Focus Live
  • More info available here
  • Laura joined pianist Angela Draghicescu in a concert of songs by Norwegian women that are so rarely performed they were only recorded for public enjoyment by the duo in 2023 for the first time. Songs were selected from their new album of the same name, to be released on Chandos in 2025.

2023

Sing & Play-Along Messiah

  • Hosted by Saint Michael and All Angels Church
  • Sunday, December 17, 2023 @ 2:30 pm at St. Michael & All Angels Church (map)
  • Donations accepted to benefit Issaquah Community Services’ “Merry Christmas Fund”
  • Laura once again sang the Soprano solos as well as singing along with everybody else!

Julekonsert

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society in collaboration with the Seattle Mannskor.
  • Saturday, December 16, 2022 at 2: 00 pm at Ballard First Lutheran Church (map)
  • Laura returned with Steven Luksan to perform songs celebrating a Norsk Jul (Norwegian Christmas) as part of this annual joint program with the Seattle Mannskor.

Amy Beach Songs with Puget Sound Concert Opera

  • Presented by Puget Sound Concert Opera
  • Saturday, December 2, 2023  @ 7 pm at Tagney Jones Hall at Seattle Opera, Seattle (map)
  • Sunday, December 3, 2023  @ 5 pm at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Bellevue (map)
  • Laura sang a selection of songs by Amy Beach with pianist Steven Luksan as part of a concert of Amy Beach’s opera Cabildo and other works.

Nordic Chamber Music: Sweden – A Swedish Serenade

Drama – Grieg’s Dramatic Music

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society in collaboration with Puget Sound Concert Opera
  • Friday, June 9 @ 7:00 pm at The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle (map)
  • Sunday, June 11 @ 4:00 pm at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Bellevue (map)
  • Laura will be singing soprano roles from Peer Gynt, Foran sydens kloster, and Olav Trygvason by Edvard Grieg.

Flute Fantasy

Welcome Spring!

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society in collaboration with Leif Erikson Lodge Sons of Norway
  • Sunday, April 2 @ 2:00 pm at Leif Erikson Lodge, Ballard (map)
  • Tickets and info available here
  • Laura and Steven Luksan performed Norwegian songs and piano pieces celebrating the arrival of spring. Tickets include tea and an array of Norwegian desserts.

A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

  • Presented by Nordic Chamber Music, and produced by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society
  • Thursday, January 26, 2023 @ 7:00 pm at Central Washington University Music Building Concert Hall (map)
  • Sunday, January 29, 2023 @ 2:00 pm at Ballard First Lutheran Church (map)
  • With Lorenzo Marasso and Yerin Kim, pianos
  • Laura sang Henryk Gorecki’s Third Symphony – A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs arranged for two pianos and soprano.

A Norwegian Epiphany

  • Presented by Nordic Chamber Music, and produced by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society
  • Sunday, January 8, 2023 @ 2:00 pm at Ballard First Lutheran Church (map)
  • With Joan Paddock, trumpet & lur & Debra Huddleston, piano & organ
  • Laura joined Joan Paddock on “Liber Sequentiarum” by Wolfgang Plagge in celebration of a traditional Norwegian Lutheran Epiphany celebration and a few other Norwegian songs with organ or piano, and trumpet or lur.

2022

Julekonsert

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society in collaboration with the Seattle Mannskor.
  • Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 7: 30 pm at Ballard First Lutheran Church (map)
  • Laura joined Steven Luksan performing songs celebrating a Norsk Jul (Norwegian Christmas) as part of this joint program with the Seattle Mannskor.

Sing & Play-Along Messiah

  • Hosted by Saint Michael and All Angels Church
  • Sunday, December 18, 2022 @ 2:30 pm at St. Michael & All Angels Church (map)
  • More information on the Facebook Event here.
  • Donations accepted to benefit Issaquah Community Services’ “Merry Christmas Fund”
  • Laura once again sang the Soprano solos as well as singing along with everybody else!

The Complete Songs of Edvard Grieg 7: The Human Condition 

Peer Gynt 

  • Presented by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society and Thalia Symphony
  • Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 4:00 pm
  • National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA (map)
  • $30 general, $25 NNM members, $10 child/student (use code “GyntStudents” with a General Admission ticket for child/student discount)
  • Laura perfored the soprano solos from Edvard Grieg’s incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s immortal Peer Gynt. This semi-staged production included dancers, a hardanger fiddler, and a chamber chorus alongside the Thalia Symphony.

The Nightingale Project: The Extraordinary Jenny Lind

  • Presented by Whidbey’s Saratoga Orchestra, Whidbey Island, WA
  • Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:00 pm
  • Whidbey Island Nordic Hall Lodge, Coupville, WA (map)
  • Laura and Steven Luksan provided musical highlights alongside a multi-media program celebrating the life and legacy of Swedish singing legend, Jenny Lind, for a lecture narrated by Kevin Hugh Lynch, a Jenny Lind historian and archivist.

2021

Sing & Play-Along Messiah

  • Hosted by Saint Michael and All Angels Church
  • Sunday, December 12 @ 2:30 pm at St. Michael & All Angels Church (map)
  • More information on the Facebook Event here.
  • Donations accepted to benefit Issaquah Community Services’ “Merry Christmas Fund”
  • Laura sang the Soprano solos as well as singing along with everybody else!

2020

Beethoven’s Finale from the Ninth Symphony

A Little Lunch Music: Norwegian Noon

2019 

Sing & Play-Along Messiah

  • Hosted by Saint Michael and All Angels Church
  • Sunday, December 15 @ 2:30 pm at St. Michael & All Angels Church (map)
  • Donations accepted to benefit Issaquah Community Services’ “Merry Christmas Fund”
  • Laura will be singing the Soprano solos as well as singing along with everybody else!

Jack Straw Winter Artist Showcase

Grieg Song Festival

Norwegian Odyssé

Songs from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt 

  • Presented by Thalia Symphony Orchestra
  • Part of Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites
  • Saturday, October 26 @ 7:30 pm at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Laurelhurst (map)

An Evening at the Theater

  • Presented by The Sammamish Symphony Orchestra
  • Program includes incidental music from Egmont by Beethoven
  • Sunday, October 20 @ 2:00 pm at Eastlake Performing Arts Center (map)
  • Friday, November 1, @ 7:30 pm at Meydenbauer Theater (map)

Skål! A Toast to Edvard Grieg

Music at Midweek: The Languages of Edvard Grieg

The Complete Songs of Edvard Grieg 5: The Mountain Maid

Summer in the Fjord: Songs of Norway and Scandinavia

  • Presented by Aquilon Music Festival
  • With Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano and Sequoia, piano
  • Wednesday, July 3 @ 7:30 pm at Delkin Recital Hall, Vivian Bull Music Center, Linfield College (map)

Pousette in Manon by Massenet

  • Presented by Puget Sound Concert Opera
  • Friday, May 31 @ 7:30 pm at Music Center of the Northwest (map)
  • Sunday, June 2 @ 4:00 pm at Resonance at SOMA Towers (map)

Ancient Melodies, Modern Harmonies

The Complete Songs of Edvard Grieg 4: A Norwegian Holiday

Messiah by Handel

My Norwegian Valentine

  • Private House Concerts Presented by Northwest Edvard Grieg Society
  • With Steven Luksan, piano and other wonderful local musicians performing Grieg and friends
  • February 16 in Lake Oswego, OR

Thalia Symphony Orchestra Winter 2019 Concert

  • Soprano soloist in Nielsen’s Third Symphony
  • Saturday, January 19 @ 7:30 pm at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (map)