Speakers

Composer, vocalist and instrumentalist Laura Intravia is internationally renowned for her multi-faceted musical career in opera, concert music and video game/film soundtracks. Laura has won several awards for her original vocal works, including the Jack Downey Vocal Composition Prize and 2nd place in the New York Treble Singers Composition Competition. Laura has additionally worked as a lyricist and co-composer on several projects. Her most recent collaboration was with AURORA and Brendon Williams on the 2026 World of Warcraft anthem "A Place to Call Home." Other songwriting projects include providing lyrics and vocals for Sterling Maffe's "Dawn of the Moon" song for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, and co-writing "Walk Past the Storm" with Chad Seiter for Arkhangel: House of the Seven Stars. An avid arranger, Laura's solo piano arrangements of Austin Wintory's Grammy-nominated score Journey were published by Alfred Music in 2013. Laura has arranged and orchestrated several pieces on the Video Games Live album series, and has released two solo piano video game arrangement albums, Through Time and Space and Shall We Play?, both featuring pianist Brendon Shapiro. On the stage, Laura has performed in a variety of concerts and operatic works. She has sung several contemporary opera roles with companies including Beth Morrison Projects, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Catalyst New Music and Mass Opera, including world premieres in The Body Politic (Hurley/Osborne) and En la ardiente oscuridad (Najmi). Laura has also performed as a singer and instrumentalist for a variety of video game themed concerts. She toured as a principal wind and vocal soloist for the Video Games Live concert tour from 2009-2018, appearing alongside orchestras such as the Polish National Radio Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Utah Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Orquesta Nacional de España and the Qatar Philharmonic. Other notable engagements include Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions, Journey: LIVE with Austin Wintory and Ace Combat: Three Aces with the Tiberian Sons. Equally at home in her recording studio, Laura's voice and winds can be heard on over 80 video game, TV and film soundtracks, including the Destiny and Destiny 2 franchise, Mortal Kombat franchise, Star Wars Outlaws, Darksiders III, Honor of Kings and World of Warcraft. Born and raised on Long Island, Laura holds degrees in Composition and Vocal Performance from Ithaca College. She was the Keynote Speaker for the North American Conference of Video Game Music in 2024, and has appeared as a speaker at NYU, Stetson University and GameSoundCon. Laura is a visioning partner for Catalyst New Music and a core member of the video game funk-fusion band DiscoCactus.

Presenting:

• World of Songcraft: Creative Iteration as a Composer-Vocalist Team