Laura Nevitt

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 30 premieres of new works. She is also especially 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, Children’s Chorus Director at NEC Prep, Associate Conductor at Voices Boston Children’s Choir, a Teaching Artist with Boston Lyric Opera and Handel & Haydn Society, and Music Director at First Parish UU in Needham, MA, where she is also Artistic Director of the newly formed “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, and the Choir of Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge. 

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