Laura Karpman

Laura Karpman, composer, four-time Emmy Award-winner, has a highly distinguished career spanning the worlds of concert, theater, film, television, and videogame scores. Her concert works have been performed by orchestras and ensembles internationally, commissioned by, among others, Carnegie Hall, Tonya Pinkins, the American Composers Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, and Juilliard Choral Union, and performed by the Borromeo and Turtle Island String quartets, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the National, Detroit, Richmond, Seattle, Houston, New York Youth, Tucson, San Jose Chamber, and Prague symphonies. Her extensive media music credits include scores for Steven Spielberg and PBS. She is on the faculty of the UCLA School of Film and Television and she has served as visiting Professor at Berklee College of Music’s Valencia campus since fall 2012. Recent and upcoming premieres include Now All Set, honoring Milton Babbitt, the Hidden World of Girls with NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters for the Cabrillo Festival, a collaboration with New York Times columnist Gail Collins in Balls, the Tennis Opera, Different Lanes for string quartet and two ipads, and the 110 Project for the LA Opera.