Laura Chambers
flute
Principal flute of the London Symphonia, Laura performs regularly as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician with ensembles across North America. Most recently she has appeared as an extra musician with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and National Ballet of Canada. Flexible in musical genre, she is featured on the Billboard #1 Jazz album Cuphead, is currently part of the flute team for Mirvish’s production of the Lion King and is a favourite collaborator of Juno nominated folk singer Dayna Manning.
She is also a founding member of Charm of Finches, Canada’s only professional flute quintet. A lover of the outdoors, her performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring for an audience of over 30,000 at sunset in the Nevadan desert is her most memorable to date. A passionate educator, Laura’s teaching studio consists of students spanning in age from 5 to 85, and she is welcomed as guest clinician at schools, music camps and festival workshops throughout Canada. In addition to her performance and private teaching, Laura is a PhD candidate at York University where her research is focused on the recontextualization and sustainability of classical music in today’s world. She currently holds a sessional lecturer position at the University of Toronto and is a faculty member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Oscar Peterson’s School of Music.
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