Laura Teivāne, a young and talented singer, has a bachelor’s degree in academic singing at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, in the class of associate professor Zigrīda Krīgere. Laura has performed together with the Latvian National Opera Orchestra, the University of Latvia Brass Band and the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra in Finland, Lithuania and many places in Latvia. She has participated in master classes by Joy Mammen, Tamar Novichenko, Axel Everert and Andreas Bauman. Laura has also successfully participated in a number of international vocal competitions, including the Giovanni Battista Viotti’s Vocal Competition in 2014 in La Vercelli, Italy, where she received the Luciano Pavarotti Special Award. In 2016, she received the Great Music Award 2013 nomination as the best young artist of the year.