At the tender age of 15 Laura Wright won the BBC Radio 2 Chorister of the Year. This resulted in performances around the country which included the Soloist in John Rutter’s Requiem at St. Paul’s Cathedral….this was just the beginning. Laura has performed continuously at numerous prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Arena, Twickenham, Old Trafford, 02 Arena, Royal Festival Hall and has performed for HM The Queen, The Prime Minister and many others. Laura was part of the...
At the tender age of 15 Laura Wright won the BBC Radio 2 Chorister of the Year. This resulted in performances around the country which included the Soloist in John Rutter’s Requiem at St. Paul’s Cathedral….this was just the beginning.
Laura has performed continuously at numerous prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Arena, Twickenham, Old Trafford, 02 Arena, Royal Festival Hall and has performed for HM The Queen, The Prime Minister and many others.
Laura was part of the female vocal quartet All Angels who were signed to Universal and launched in 2006. Laura recorded three albums with All Angels, the first of which was named the fastest classical selling album of all time and was awarded a Platinum disc. Album sales reached over a million and they were nominated for Classical Brit Award for Album of the Year in 2007.
In 2009, Laura won a Scholarship to Royal College of Music to study opera. Laura has just competed at the Junior Kathleen Ferrier Bursary Award and the Chelsea Schubert Competition, Charity Concerts for Venice in Peril (Chosen Charity for The Venice Marathon).
Laura has an impressive list of sporting achievements including county hockey (also East of England), county tennis (National Abadare cup Tennis Finals and Road to Wimbledon Finals U18's), county athletics (AAA schools athletics), county Javelin as well as being captain of the netball, hockey and tennis teams.
In October last year, Laura successfully ran the 25th Venice Marathon 2010 and in April 2011 Laura will be running the Virgin London Marathon 2011. Laura is looking forward to singing the National Anthem at Wembley in February at the Carling Cup Final 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
