Grammy® and Latin Grammy® nominee, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, has been lauded by The New York Times as “superb”, “dramatically astute” and “stunningly agile”. She performs and records regularly with Conspirare, and has appeared with other acclaimed ensembles including The Crossing, Seraphic Fire, Vocal Arts Ensemble, and Artefact Ensemble.
Notable appearances include Charles Wuorinen’s cantata It Happens Like This with The MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, and the west coast premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s one-woman opera, The Raven at the Los Angeles International New Music Festival.
Ms. Mercado-Wright has appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, and the Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart. This season includes debut performances with Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble in Cleveland and Tenet in New York.
In addition to performing, Laura has been composing since 2020, and has premiered several of her pieces with VAMP, a female vocal quintet based in Austin, Texas. In February of this year, VAMP premiered Between the Planets, a new set of interludes by Laura for Austin Civic Orchestra’s performance of Holst’s The Planets.
