Korean American pianist Laura Poe is a highly sought-after artist and collaborator, celebrated for her work as a pianist, vocal coach, and educator. Based in Düsseldorf, Germany, she is a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In the 2024-2025 season, Laura will join the music staff of the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners and return to the Metropolitan Opera for John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra.

Laura is in high demand as a répétiteur and vocal coach, having worked with prestigious institutions such as the San Francisco Opera, De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam), Gran Teatre del Liceu, The Metropolitan Opera and the Semperoper Dresden. At Dresden, she made her professional conducting debut, leading 19 performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Her festival appearances include the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ravinia Steans Institute, Bard Summerscape, Glimmerglass Opera, and Music Academy of the West. She has also performed in prominent venues like Alice Tully Hall, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Lucerne Music Festival and in Trinidad and Tobago.

As a recitalist, Laura has collaborated with renowned artists such as Lisette Oropesa, Julia Bullock, Sasha Cooke, Paul Appleby, and Deborah Voigt, with whom she performed live on New York’s classical radio station, WQXR. She also appeared in the BBC2 documentary What Makes a Great Soprano with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. In 2009, she won third prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London.

A passionate advocate for new music, Laura has worked on numerous world and European premieres. She has collaborated with composers Ellen Reid, Julia Adolphe and frequently works with John Adams as a pianist and arranger/editor. She assisted Adams on his Grammy-nominated recording of Girls of the Golden West with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as a radio broadcast of The Death of Klinghoffer with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She also created the piano-vocal score for Antony and Cleopatra and edited Girls of the Golden West for its European premiere in Amsterdam.

Committed to mentoring the next generation of singers and pianists, Laura has served as an Associate Vocal Coach at The Juilliard School, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival and School, AIMS in Graz and Si parla, si canta in Urbania, Italy. In addition to her duties at the opera house, she maintains a private coaching studio for both singers and pianists.

Laura is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and has trained with many of the world’s leading musicians, conductors, and directors. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard School, a Master’s in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Bachelor’s in Instrumental Music Education from the same institution, where she was awarded the inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award in Performance in 2015.