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Laura Nevitt

Laura Nevitt

Education and Training

'20 MM, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Choral Conducting; '08 BM, University of South Carolina, Music Education; '07 BM, University of South Carolina, Composition

Awards and Recognition

Finalist for the American Prize in Composition (shorter choral works-professional division), 2025

Winner of 2024 Commission Prize, sparks and wiry cries’ songSLAM, NYC - January 2023

Winner of Composers Invitational Commission, Detroit Women’s Chorus - June 2021

Laura Nevitt

Division: Expanded Education

Department: Voice

Instrument: Voice

Laura Nevitt is a conductor, composer, & educator based in Boston. As a fierce advocate for new music, they love working with composers, and have conducted over 35 premieres of new works. She is passionate about giving voice and space to gender marginalized musicians and poets through choral and vocal music.

She is the Founder & Artistic Director of Lilith Vocal Ensemble, Prep Choir, Children’s Choir & Chamber Chorus Director at New England Conservatory Prep, a Teaching Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, and Music Director at First Parish UU in Needham, MA, where she is also Artistic Director of the “To The Fore” Concert Series, focused on bringing historically marginalized voices to the forefront.

Their compositions are frequently performed by musicians across the country, some highlights being the Handel & Haydn Society Youth Choruses, Choral Arts Initiative, the Evelyn Duo, Voices Boston Children’s Choir, Boston Conservatory Choir, Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, Lilith Vocal Ensemble, BRACE New Music Choir, Opera on Tap Boston, the UofSC Concert Choir, sparks & wiry cries’ songSLAM, Source Song Festival, Cantilena, and the Detroit Women’s Chorus.

She earned degrees in Composition and Music Education from the University of South Carolina, studying with John Fitz Rogers & Wendy Valerio; and a M.M. in Choral Conducting at Boston Conservatory, studying with George Case.

Curriculum Vitae

'20 MM, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Choral Conducting; '08 BM, University of South Carolina, Music Education; '07 BM, University of South Carolina, Composition

  • Finalist for the American Prize in Composition (shorter choral works-professional division), 2025
  • Winner of 2024 Commission Prize, sparks and wiry cries’ songSLAM, NYC - January 2023
  • Winner of Composers Invitational Commission, Detroit Women’s Chorus - June 2021