Soprano, Laura Loge, has been hailed for her "luminous stage presence" and "characterful and versatile voice." She was recently heard in performances with the Icicle Creek Canyon Wren Chamber Music series performing songs by Robert and Clara Schumann as well as being featured with the Mostly Nordic Chamber Music Series presenting songs by Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Christian Sinding, Halfdan Kjerulf, Eyvind Alnæs and Egil Hovland. She was also engaged to present a Mother's Day recital for the Mineral County Performing Arts Council in Montana. This year she was the honorary marshal for Ballard's 17. mai parade celebrating Norway's Constitution Day and presented several Norwegian songs as part of the festivities. She was the featured soloist at the Scandinavian Cultural Center's Greater Tacoma Peace Price banquet at Pacific Lutheran University. In response to the July 22 attacks in Norway, she organized and performed memorial concerts in Seattle, Washington D.C. and New York City, reaching Norwegians in need of healing and remembering the victims through Norwegian music.

Recent opera roles include Lisa in La Sonnambula with Puget Sound Opera, Musetta with Rimrock Opera, Guadalena and Ninetta in La Perichole with the Hans Wolf Operetta Series, Lucy in The Telephone with Northwest Opera in Schools, Etcetera, La Fée in Massenet's Cendrillon and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica with Puget Sound Concert Opera, Ginger, touring with the Rimrock Opera in The Night Harry Stopped Smoking, Rosalinda with the Longwood Opera, the Second Lady in The Magic Flute with the Intermountain Opera, Musetta with Riverside Theater Works and Boston Opera Collaborative, Goddess Diana in Glück's Iphigenie en Aulide with the Boston Opera Collaborative and Miss Silverpeal and Sister Genevieve with the Rimrock Opera. She has lectured and performed with the Seattle Opera Guild Previews, including stepping in at the last minute to sing Lucia for a preview of Lucia di Lammermoor. She has covered the roles of High Priestess, Susannah, Lucia and Alisa, and Cathleen in Riders the the Sea. She has performed scenes from La Traviata, Carmen, Don Pasquale, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon, I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, Maria Stuarda, Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night, Midtridate, and Summer and Smoke. She has also participated in the Aspen Music Festival.

On the concert stage she was the soprano soloist with the Eastside Symphony singing Songs for Soprano and Orchestra by Edvard Grieg. She was a guest artist at the 2009 Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival performing Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with eight cellos and and a set of seven Copland songs with Oksana Ezhokina on piano. She was the soprano soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Yakima Symphony, was the soprano soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the Masterworks Chorale in their Summer Sing Series and was the soprano soloist in Schumann's Mass and Requiem as part of their concert season. Ms. Loge was the soprano soloist in Händel's Messiah with the Pilgrim Festival Chorus and Orchestra. She performed with the Bremerton Symphony as the soprano soloist in Faure's Requiem.

Ms. Loge's vast recital repertoire includes Barber, Copland, Mozart, R. Strauss, Bellini, Grieg, Sibleius and Laitman. She has presented recitals of Scandinavian art song on the radio broadcast, Live By George and at the Nordic Heritage Museum, the Leif Erikson Lodge Sons of Norway and the Norse Home in Seattle, Washington, at the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University, at Montana State University and St. Olaf College, and in Washington D.C., New York City, Dillon, Montana, Stavanger, Norway, and at the Scandinavian Living Center in Newton, Massachusetts.

Ms. Loge was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Grieg Festival Young Artists Competition. She competed as a finalist in the 2008 Ladies Musical Club of Seattle Competition, was a district winner of the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and placed as a semi-finalist in the 2004 Laureen Butler Competition in El Paso, Texas.

Ms. Loge received her Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance from St. Olaf College. She was awarded a full scholarship to study Scandinavian art song at the University of Stavanger Conservatory of Music in Norway, studied Italian bel canto technique and repertoire with Signora Rosanna Lippi in Italy, and as a student of Edward Zambara, she received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory. Currently residing in Seattle, Washington, she studies with Jane Eaglen and coaches with Dean Williamson and David McDade.

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