Laura Strickling

Soprano Laura Strickling is known for her advocacy of new music. In 2023, she released the album 40@40, featuring songs newly commissioned on the occasion of her 40th birthday. Strickling was born in Chicago. She earned a bachelor's degree in sacred music at the city's Moody Bible Institute and went on to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, earning a master's degree in voice. A principal teacher has been Elizabeth Daniels. An enthusiastic traveler, Strickling studied classical Arabic for a time at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco. She ...