Laura Stevens

Laura Stevens is a South African and British composer of music for concert hall, film and media, stage and dance. Stevens composed the original score for the documentary Elephant Refugees (2022, dir. Louise Hogarth) , narrated by Jerome Flynn; and various ballet music works for the English National Ballet. She is also known for collaborating with living poets on musical settings of their work, among them Katharine Towers and Hollie McNish Music Stevens created the original score for documentary Elephant Refugees in 2022, directed by Louise Hogarth, an account of elephants fleeing drought in Botswana In 2016 the English National Ballet commissioned Stevens to compose the music for Unsilenced, the youth ballet accompaniment to their She Said triple bill project. The work was danced at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London and the Britten Theatre. Previously, she had worked with the company on their Choreographics showcase at Sadler’s Wells, collaborating with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple on her work Give my Love to the Sunrise Stevens has written in cross-disciplinary genres, having also collaborated with poets Katharine Towers on a musical setting of her poem “the way we go”, for S