Laura Stevens is a South African and British composer[1] of music for concert hall, film and media, stage and dance.
[4][5] She is also known for collaborating with living poets on musical settings of their work, among them Katharine Towers[6] and Hollie McNish[7] Stevens created the original score for documentary Elephant Refugees[8][9][10] in 2022, directed by Louise Hogarth, an account of elephants fleeing drought in Botswana In 2016 the English National Ballet commissioned Stevens to compose the music for Unsilenced, the youth ballet accompaniment to their She Said triple bill project.
Previously, she had worked with the company on their Choreographics showcase at Sadler’s Wells, collaborating with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple on her work Give my Love to the Sunrise[13][14] Stevens has written in cross-disciplinary genres, having also collaborated with poets Katharine Towers on a musical setting of her poem “the way we go”,[15] for Soprano and Piano, with a subsequent choral arrangement for Swedish choir Linköping Studentssangerer;[16][17] and Hollie McNish on her debut music and poetry album album Versus[18] recorded at Abbey Road.
In 2012 Stevens created music for animations produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Central St Martins.
In 2023 she played and arranged cello on his score for theatre work Imparator[26][27] by Turkish thespian and activist Genco Erkal.