Laura DeLuca

Adjunct Instructor

Clarinet

Laura DeLuca, clarinet, has been a member of the Seattle Symphony since 1986, and a co–founding member of Seattle Chamber Players since 1989. A versatile musician and collaborator, her true passion is playing chamber music of all styles and genres from classical to klezmer. Performances with the Seattle Chamber Players have taken her to festivals in China, Costa Rica, Russia, Italy, Denmark, Estonia and Poland. Additional engagements include performances and recordings with Music of Remembrance, Icicle Creek Music Festival, Town Hall Series, Richmond Music Festival and her latest endeavor, Trio Tara, a trio comprising clarinet, viola and piano. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Youth Orchestra, Rainier and Cascade Symphony orchestras.

DeLuca has performed on dozens of recordings including more than 100 commercial recordings with the Seattle Symphony as well as commissioned works by Jake Heggie, Paul Schoenfield and Lori Laitman. She has been featured on many movie soundtracks, including the solo clarinet work on the Academy Award–winning documentaries The Long Way Home and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. DeLuca received her formal training at Northwestern University where she studied with the celebrated clarinetist Robert Marcellus. She has pursued a lifelong interest in the connection of body, mind and spirit and how that informs a performing musician. This has inspired her to study yoga, gyrotonics, continuum movement, meditation and Quigong, and she continues to weave those disciplines into her daily life.