CHOIRS
Musical Director
LONDON YOUTH CHOIR NORTH EAST
Laurel is leading London Youth Choir's tenth choir, LYC North East. The junior choir (for years 3-6) rehearses at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham on Thursdays after school.
NOTE-ORIOUS COMMUNITY CHOIR
A fun, friendly, community choir singing in Dulwich since 2008, with a penchant for 80s music. The choir rehearses on Monday evenings at Dulwich Hamlet FC Members Bar and perform regularly in South London.
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON STAFF CHOIR
Laurel leads the Staff Choir at King's College London.
Past roles at workplaces include with Islington Council and Springer Nature Group, and whilst working for Music in Offices she led choirs for Hearst Magazines, Macquarie, and SEI, and has worked as a guest leader with choirs from WeWork, Debenhams, The Telegraph, Knight Frank, JLL, Fidelity and UBS.
LONDON HUMANIST CHOIR
Laurel conducted the country's only exclusively secular choir for ten years 2012-2022, building it into one of the leading choirs in London. The choir regularly perform in London, and have toured to the Edinburgh Free Fringe and Norway.
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE THURROCK COMMUNITY CHORUS
Laurel was Apprentice Conductor to the Chorus in 2019, working alongside Jeremy Haneman, and performing at the Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre and Tilbury Docks. The Chorus are a leading community chorus; performing staged performances from memory in their original languages.
ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM FESTIVAL CHORUS
Laurel held an Assistant conductor position from 2019-2022, preparing the chorus for Bach's Easter Oratorio, Vivaldi Gloria and Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary, as well as Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise.
"Choral music is not one of life’s frills. It’s something that goes to the very heart of our humanity, our sense of community, and our souls. You express, when you sing, your soul in song. And when you get together with a group of other singers, it becomes more than the sum of the parts."