| Biography | Laura Snowden is a winner of numerous national and international awards. Recently selected for the Tillett Trust, St John's Smith Square and International Guitar Foundations Young Artists Programmes, she also won First Prize at the 2014 Ivor Mairants Guitar Award.
Following studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, where guitar tuition was made possible by the Rolling Stones, Laura went on to the Royal College of Music, winning the Guitar Prize in her first year. She is now a Postgraduate RCM Scholar, supported by a John Lewis Partnership Award, a Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust Award and a Julian Bream Trust Award.
Laura has performed at some of the UKs leading music and guitar festivals, and has appeared as a soloist at Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Sage Gateshead and Kings Place. Last year, she gave a series of solo and duo recitals for the International Guitar Foundations North East and London Guitar Festivals, which included the performance of newly commissioned works.
Laura is also an established composer - her music has been played on BBC Radio 3 and premiered at Sadlers Wells, Deal Festival and Handel House. Her commissions have subsequently been performed at the Wigmore Hall and in Italy, Romania and Japan. She has collaborated as a composer both with the Royal Ballet School and with the London Film School. Her song Live Free, composed for the charity Voices For Hospices, was performed at over 300 simultaneous concerts in 60 countries, spanning Europe, USA and Asia. (November 2014) |