Laura Jobin-Acosta

Laura Jobin-Acosta is of Indian heritage, raised in a Puerto Rican and American family, and has spent her life — and her entire compositional portfolio — exploring the musical voice that lives in her DNA. That search has taken her from Hindustani music in college to South India to study Carnatic music at its source, from Spanish and Latin liturgy to the nearly extinct Coptic language, from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to poems written by girls in a Honduran orphanage. Every piece she writes is another step in that exploration: music made from the in-between place, for anyone who has ever lived there.

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She grew up between languages, between liturgies, between musical worlds — and she has never stopped writing from that place. Her music tries to make people feel less alone, more seen, and more alive to beauty. She is not interested in novelty for its own sake. She is interested in what speaks truth.

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As a soprano and a composer, Jobin-Acosta has always lived in two musical worlds at once, singing and writing in constant conversation with each other. That duality sharpens both: the voice informs the page, and the page shapes what she hears when she performs.

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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 resulting in world premieres across New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Maryland in Winter 2025. She is currently writing a youth opera for Prelude Opera as their first commissioned composer.

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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 based in New York and available for commissions, collaborations, and conversation.