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Laura Nobili (b. 2006) is a Canadian composer from Richmond Hill, Ontario. Her compositions cover a wide range of instrumentations and styles including opera, choral works, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and recently she has been exploring jazz. Her music has been performed by numerous professional and student musicians in Canada, the United States, Italy, and Austria.
As a young child, Nobili found joy in improvising at the piano and constantly creating melodies. While she had significant struggles learning to read music from the ages of 4 to 11 years old, she studied piano by secretly learning every piece by ear. Eventually, she gained the ability to read music as she began exploring music theory.
At the age of 12 years old, Nobili notated her first official composition - a string quartet entitled “The Mysterious Galaxy”, which would soon win a scholarship from Kiwanis Music Festival. Not long after, she began taking private composition lessons with Christine Donkin. While studying with Ms. Donkin, Nobili participated in the Victoria Conservatory of Music Composition Club, where she co-published “A Journey Through Canada” - a collection of nine piano pieces. All proceeds from this book were donated to OrKidstra, a music charity in Ottawa. Nobili also published a book of 12 piano pieces, where she discussed her personal experiences with synesthesia. While studying under Ms. Donkin, Nobili received many commissions and performances by various professional and student musicians throughout Canada.
At the age of 15, Nobili returned to studying composition independently. Two weeks after her sixteenth birthday, she completed her first full-length musical, entitled “Macbeth the Musical”. She produced and directed the premiere of this show on May 17, 2023. She finished composing her second musical, “Gatsby” in May 2023, and it premiered on October 18, 2023.
In July 2024, she attended Opera Lucca’s vocal composition program, where she studied under Maestro Raphael Fusco and worked with 16 musicians, for two Italian premieres and one world premiere. This inspired her to write her first full-length opera entitled “Heaven and Hell,” which was completed in August 2024.
Nobili began pursuing her undergraduate composition studies at Manhattan School of Music in September 2024, and continues to study at MSM under the tutelage of Dr. J. Mark Stambaugh. She frequently receives commissions and performances of her music, and has also been conducting some of her premieres. Currently, Nobili is writing an opera based on the myth of Glaucus and Scylla. In addition to her composition endeavors, Nobili is on the Student Advisory Board at the Metropolitan Opera, and she is one of the founders of the Manhattan School of Music Opera Club.
Anti-AI Stance
Anti-AI Stance
As a creative artist, I am in strong opposition to the use of generative AI. Not only does AI create detrimental environmental implications, but it is extremely harmful to legitimate artists, whose work has been stolen to train generative AI models. These very models are made to mass produce un-inspiring, low quality media with the intention of eliminating the job opportunities of those it learned from. AI "art," if you can call it that, isolates people, by stripping them from the human connection and expression that is created by art in all its forms. It is controlling people's minds and thought patterns by constantly providing false information, and creating a dependence on a tool that has the ability to support the infiltration of propaganda into the opinions and beliefs of a large portion of society. The more ignorant and compliant we become as a society, the more we lose the ability to think for ourselves, and using AI feels like willingly sacrificing our autonomy for short-term conveniences. I feel a strong connection to the classical composers of the past who have shaped music by passing one stroke of sheer human ingenuity down the passageway of time, and I fear that AI already has become so powerful, that this lineage may be broken. I do not support generative AI in any way, shape, or form, and I want to make it clear that I will never use AI in any part of my work. I have recently been made aware that there has been an AI image of me made without my consent, and I want to make it extremely clear that I do not support AI, and I did not, and will not ever create or post any AI generated content.
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