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Laura Cocks

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Laura Cocks has worked in a wide array of creative environments as a flutist and performer and focuses primarily on contemporary music. She aims to highlight emerging composers – emphasizing and rejoicing in the collaborative process and has premiered over 150 works in the last five years. Ms. Cocks is a founding member of Ensemble F0 and TAK and also performs with the Nouveau Classical Project, Ensemble Mise-en, and TACTUS. 

She has performed across North and Latin America, Europe, and Canada as a soloist and chamber musician in ensembles such as The London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Bonne Action, Wet Ink Ensemble, MAX Experience New Music, and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. She has performed in venues that range from Symphony Space, The Guggenheim Museum, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London to spaces like diners, artists squats, and living rooms. Laura has worked with composers such as Beat Furrer, Peter Maxwell Davies, Christian Wolff and Lewis Nielson.

Laura attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with flute with Michel Debost, Kathleen Chastain, Kate Hill and Composition with Paul Patterson. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree as a part of the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program where she studies with Tara Helen O’Connor.

Laura teaches flute at the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, and at the Brooklyn Center for the Musical Arts.

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      • 2022 SEASON >
        • 2022 University of New Orleans Program
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        • 2020 Marigny Opera House Program
        • 2020 Tulane University Program
      • 2019 SEASON
      • 2018 SEASON
      • 2017 SEASON
      • 2015/2016
      • COMPOSER COMPETITION
    • ARTIST INTERVIEWS
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