Recognized by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross for her “refined, restrained” singing, American mezzo-soprano Laura C. Atkinson has found a home on both the concert and opera stage in the United States and Europe. She has debuted with numerous American and German orchestras, has collaborated with various professional choirs, and has performed operatic roles in several German opera houses. Highlights include frequent performances of Handel’s Messiah with orchestras around America, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Leipzig, Dvorak’s Requiem at the Konzerthaus Berlin, a tour of Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Simon Carrington in China and Korea, an artist residency with Malcolm Martineau in Scotland and work as a fest chorus and small role singer at the Staatsoper Braunschweig. She enjoys recurrent collaborations with various groups and festivals, including the Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem with Greg Funfgeld and the Bach Akademie of Charlotte with Scott Allen Jarrett. She received her masters degree from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, where she studied with James R. Taylor and Simon Carrington; upon graduation from Yale, she was awarded the inaugural Margot Fassler Award for Excellence in Performance of Sacred Music. She completed additional studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig, Germany as a Fulbright Grantee. As an undergraduate at Maryville College in Tennessee, she studied Music Education.