Laura Holden Green is a singer, teacher, choral director, and church musician from New York City. She currently serves on the voice faculty of Wagner College (Staten Island) and AMDA (West 61st Street). Ms. Green conducts the Chamber Choir at Hoff-Barthelson Music School (Scarsdale, NY), which performs a wide variety of repertoire from the Baroque period to the present. She serves as the Music Director at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption RC Church in Pelham Bay, Bronx, where she directs the Adult Choir and Children’s Choir.
Intermittently with her music directing and teaching duties, Ms. Green continues to perform as a soloist and choral musician. Since 2009, Ms. Green has sung with the Bard SummerScape Opera Chorus, helping to bring rarely performed works to the stage. Most beloved solo performances include a performance with Dave Brubeck singing Mary in his La Fiesta de la Posada at The Reformed Church (Bronxville, NY), the full orchestral premiere of the Appalachian Requiem by composer Michael Conley at Calvary Presbyterian Church (San Francisco), Christopher Fecteau's reduction of Samuel Barber's Summer of Knoxville: 1915 at St. Bartholomew's Church (NYC), and an appearance on the Rachael Ray show, winning the "Battle of the Carolers" as judged by Nick Cannon with "The Snow Carolers", a wing of the caroling group, The Yuletide Singers.
Ms. Green’s solo work includes collaborations with Varna Music Festivals, Hudson Chorale, Bronxville Reformed Church, West Village Chorale, Choral Arts Society of Westchester, American Symphony Orchestra, Bard Festival of Music, Collegiate Chorale, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Berkshire Bach Society, Great Waters Music Festival, Jade Opera, Woodstock Fringe Festival, New York Lyric Opera Theater. In Bronxville, she has sung the role of Mary in Dave Brubeck’s Fiesta de la Posada, and soprano solos for Mendelssohn’s On the Wings of a Dove, and Handel’s Messiah.
Ms. Green has sung on stage with Dave Brubeck, Leon Botsein, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Xian Zhang, Harold Rosenbaum, Matthew Phelps, K. Scott Warren, and Kent Tritle. Recordings include a collection of Haydn Masses with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Cool of the Day (St. Ignatius RCC), Les Huguenots (Bard SummerScape), and John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls (Grammy Winner with NY Philharmonic).
Laura is an alumna of The Hartt School of Music (M.M) and James Madison University (B.M. Ed.), having studied with Cornelius Reid, Mary Mack, Gary Norden, Martha Gerhart, and Richard Nechamkin.
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“Laura Green is, simply put, my favorite soprano. A gorgeous voice, full of warmth and wit, emanating from a beautiful soul.”
“Versatile, nuanced, elegant singer, always prepared, and did I mention she has the best personality of any soprano to work with in New York City? Collaborations with Laura are always memorable.”
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