Laura Coppinger

Song is a crucial part of Laura’s artistic identity; she feels an especially deep connection with English repertoire, enjoying the expressive potential of her mother tongue. A keen recitalist, Laura was a 2024 Leeds Lieder Young Artist, and has given recitals at Broadway Arts Festival, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in addition to many venues across Oxford, Glasgow and London. She has a passion for twentieth and twenty-first century song and enjoys workshopping new compositions, most recently at the University of Oxford and the Purcell School. In 2024 she was awarded Second Prize in the John Kerr Award for English Song, with a programme spanning Thomas Campion to Oliver Knussen. She was a finalist in the Elgar/Spedding Memorial Lieder Competition (2022) and won Second Prize and the Charles Wood Song Prize in the Charles Wood International Song Competition in the same year. She developed a keen interest in lute song whilst studying in Glasgow, and has recorded sixteenth-century Scottish lute songs for use at Dean Castle, Ayrshire. She has studied lute song with James Potter and Jacob Heringman at Dartington Summer School in 2022.

Operatic roles include Die Frau / Erwartung (Schönberg) with Orchestra Vox, Zerlina / Don Giovanni (Mozart) with Oxford Alternative Orchestra, Baroness Irene / La Vera Costanza (Haydn) with New Chamber Opera, Cunegonde / Candide (Bernstein) with Barricade Arts, Second Woman / Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) with Glyndebourne Youth Opera, Ninfa / L’Orfeo (Monteverdi) with Theatron Oneiron, Mabel / The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan), Angelina / Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan), Oasis / L’Etoile (Chabrier) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Pallas / The Judgement of Paris (Weldon). As a 2025-26 Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist, she performed the roles of L’Amour / Nymphe / La Sylphide in Mademoiselle Duval’s rarely performed opera Les Génies. She particularly loves contemporary music, a passion she has had since performing in the premiere of David Bruce’s Nothing as a member of Glyndebourne Youth Opera. She has since performed in multiple operatic premieres in Oxford, Manchester, and London, including with Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera and at the Tête à Tête Festival. 

Laura is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MA in Vocal Performance) where she held a scholarship, St Hilda’s College Oxford (BA in Music, 1st Class), the Dunedin Consort’s Bridging the Gap scheme 2022/23, and Leeds Lieder Festival Young Artist Programme (2024). She has been kindly supported by Help Musicians as a Postgraduate Award holder, The Caird Trust, the Sutherland Page Trust, and Broadway Arts Festival.