About

Laura Nobili (b. 2006) is a Canadian composer from Richmond Hill, Ontario. She has written for several professional and student musicians including the Springdale Trio, the West Coast Chamber Orchestra, the Rachmaninov Trio, the Alexander Mackenzie High School Symphonic Band, and the Victoria Conservatory of Music Chamber Orchestra featuring soloist Jonathan Crow (the concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra).

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. 

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 is currently pursuing her undergraduate composition studies at Manhattan School of Music, and studying privately with Dr. Mark Stambaugh.