Laura Strickling

Soprano Laura Strickling is known for her advocacy of new music. An enthusiastic traveler, Strickling studied classical Arabic for a time at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco. She made her recording debut in 2015 with an appearance on the New Voices album, released by the Brooklyn Art Song Society. Her first solo recording came in 2018 with The Garden: Songs and Vocal Chamber Music of Tom Cipullo. Strickling released another album devoted to Cipullo's music, The Parting (a work memorializing Holocaust victims), in 2020, and that year, she issued Confessions, an art song recital featuring her frequent collaborator Joy Schreier on piano. In 2023, she released the album 40@40, featuring songs newly commissioned on the occasion of her 40th birthday.