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Laura Ingram Semilian's powerful, haunting soprano voice excavates the nuances of old stories, enticing the listener to revisit the lost and longed-for, to experience known feelings in familiar yet forgotten context.  

Laura's evocative, engaging performances of historical American songs--Gold Rush, Civil War, Mexican War, Frontier and more--have entertained guests at state and national historic sites, at historical and genealogical societies, and crossed over to popular festivals and radio programs.   

An innovative, interdisciplinary performer, Laura's other musical projects include her programs of the Hungarian folk songs of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, her vocal settings of works by poets Will Alexander and George Quasha, and her instrumental compositions for experimental films and documentaries. 

Born in San Diego, Laura came of age on the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the borderlands of Mississippi and Louisiana before moving to her present home in the North Carolina foothills.  Laura's formal training includes graduate degrees in both music and history.  A first-place winner of the southeastern region's Metropolitan Opera competition, her leading orchestral and operatic appearances ranged in repertoire from Orff to Verdi to Wagner.

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