Laura Bowler, described as “a triple threat composer-performer provocatrice” (The Art Desk), is a composer and vocalist specialising in multidisciplinary works and music theatre. Bowler has been commissioned by leading ensembles, orchestras and festivals across the globe, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Royal Opera House, Opera Holland Park, The Opera Group, Manchester Camerata, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Phace (Austria), Ensemble Linea (France), Omega Ensemble (Australia), Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik, and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, among others.

Her recent oeuvre includes The Blue Woman, a chamber opera commissioned by the Royal Opera House for its Engender Festival at the Linbury Theatre; Wicked Problems, an award-winning chamber work for voice and bass flute created in collaboration with flautist Ruth Morley, which received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition; and ADVERT, a music-theatre piece commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, New Music Dublin, Musica Estranha, Ultima, Time in Music, Music on Main and November Music.

Other notable works include FFF, a multimedia music theatre work for ensemble and voice commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and BBC Radio 3; Damned Mob of Scribbling Women, a music-theatre song cycle for mezzo-soprano Lucy Goddard, nominated for a British Composer Award; Houses Slide, an off-grid performance powered by bicycles for London Sinfonietta and vocalist Jessica Aszodi; distance, a work jointly commissioned by sound, Spitalfields, and Cheltenham Music Festivals; and Antarctica, a 50-minute multimedia composition for orchestra and voice, co-commissioned by Manchester Camerata and BBC Radio 3.

As a vocal soloist, Bowler has premiered works internationally by such composers as Louis Aguirre and Jennifer Walshe. She also serves as vocalist for the Danish Ensemble Lydenskab.

She is currently lecturer in composition at Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire.