Biography

Laura Cannell recently completed (and passed) her MMus in Performance at the UEA and graduated from London College of Music and Media with 1st class Honours degree in performance where she was elected as a Woodwind Fellow. She has studied recorder with Piers Adams, Margaret Westlake and currently with Ross Winters. Laura has performed widely in England, Ireland and Canada, at venues such as The British Museum, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Dorchester Hotel, A Castle in Kilkenny, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich Playhouse, and many times as a soloist and as a chamber musician, performing on recorder and folk fiddle. She has performed concertos with The Bretton Hall String Orchestra and the LCM Baroque Ensemble, The Castley Sinfonia and The University fo East Anglia Symphony Orchestra.

Laura has performed live on BBC radio Norfolk, KTAO-101.9 radio in Northern New Mexico, Tube radio (London) and 'Horses Brawl' will recieve airplay for one of the tracks from their new cd on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction, 21.1.04 at 11pm.

She is a regular performer in Horses Brawl and baroque trio Fioritura

Laura has toured in Canada, played all over England from The Ealing Jazz Festival to The British Museum. She has supported Kate Rusby, Coope, Boyes & Simpson and Show of Hands.

 

East Life Magazine interview with Laura

 

European Recorder Teachers Association article:
The Recorder Player: Archaeologist or Artist?
by Laura Cannell



Guinness in Ireland, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates,
RAF (Lakenheath), Tesco, Thames Valley University,
Wembley Conference Centre, Norwich city council,
Burgh Apton Sculpture Trail, BBC Radio Norfolk,
The Assembly House Norwich, The Union Chapel,
The Kashmir Klub, Ealing Town Hall, Blickling Hall,
Norwich Castle Museum, St Andrews Hall Norwich,
The Playhouse Norwich, The Seagull Theatre Lowestoft,
Penzanze Arts Festival, Rouen (France),
The Mansion Music Room Bretton Hall, Norwich Arts Centre,
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, University of East Anglia Concert Room,
Vestry Hall @ London College of music and media,
The John Innes Centre, Gressenhall Rural Life Museum,
The Old Granary Studio,
St Gregory's Church-Norwich,
Winchester College, Wakefield Opera House,
plus many many more...