Laura Jobin-Acosta

Laura Jobin-Acosta is a composer and soprano based in New York. She writes from the in-between places she's lived — between languages, between liturgies, between musical worlds. That search has taken her from Hindustani music to Carnatic music in South India, from Spanish and Latin liturgy to Coptic, from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to poems written by girls in a Honduran orphanage.

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As both a singer and a composer, Jobin-Acosta writes with an insider's ear for the voice: her performing career informs her compositional choices, and vice versa.

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Her work has taken her to the Kennedy Center with Washington National Opera, to Brooklyn's National Sawdust with Beth Morrison Projects, and to Opera America as a Composer-in-Residence. She recently served as Composer-in-Residence with Choral Chameleon, and collaborated with the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble on premieres across New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Maryland in Winter 2025. This fall, her youth opera The Brementown Musicians — written as Prelude Opera's first commissioned composer — premieres before touring New York City schools. Her opera A Way Forward will be performed by Maryland Opera in spring of 2027 and she has upcoming premieres in the tri-state area with ModernMedieval Voices.

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Her compositions have been premiered by Canterbury Choral Society, Voices of the New (Voices of Ascension), Holy City Arts and Lyric Opera, Interreligiöser Chor Frankfurt, Western Wind Ensemble, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Ensemble Pi, Cassatt String Quartet, Calvary-St. George Church, and Brick Church, among others. Press coverage includes The Washington Post, Twin Cities Arts Reader, Christianity Today, OperaGene, and Culture South.

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She is available for commissions, collaborations, and conversation.