Laura Owens
she/her
Taylor Festival Choir Soprano
"I love singing with TFC because is getting to make exceptional music with some of my closest friends. All of the singers are amazing people as well as singers."
Laura Owens, soprano, is a Charleston-based performer of opera and musical theater. Her favorite past roles include Nancy (Albert Herring), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), La bergère (L’enfant et les sortilèges), and Lily Craven (The Secret Garden). Ms. Owens has performed with The Taylor Festival Choir, The Charleston Symphony Orchestra, The Rome Symphony Orchestra, and has been a featured soloist with the American Piccolo Spoleto Festival. She is the winner of the Orpheus Vocal Competition’s Donizetti Prize, the winner of the Music Teacher National Association Competition (SC State), and has been a regional finalist with the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition. Ms. Owens holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and an Artist Certificate in Vocal Performance from The College of Charleston, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from New York University.
Get to Know Laura
My fondest TFC memory was coming back together after Covid to perform in the Fall of 2021 will always be one of my favorite memories. It was the first time many of us had been able to make music in a group with other people in over a year and you could feel the collective catharsis in the room.
My life's motto is "We can do hard things."
I'm passionate about yoga, baking, and hanging out with my dog, Betty.
The song I could listen to on repeat is The Heart is a Muscle by Gang of Youths.
If I could only watch three TV shows for the rest of my life, they would be Gilmore Girls, Ted Lasso, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Gilmore Girls is one of my favorite TV shows because everyone talks fast and Emily Gilmore is an icon.
I got to meet Zac Efron on the set of his first movie around 2005. It was a movie about horse racing that was filmed near my house, and Zac learned how to ride at the farm where I took riding lessons. We took lessons together for a few weeks and I got to be an extra in the movie. The movie was awful but Zac is a really cool guy.
