{"id":5869,"date":"2023-09-20T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/?page_id=5869"},"modified":"2023-09-20T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:13:26","slug":"laura-mercado-wright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/laura-mercado-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Mercado-Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5870\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/09\/Laura-Mercado-Headshot.png?resize=500%2C334&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Laura\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/09\/Laura-Mercado-Headshot.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/09\/Laura-Mercado-Headshot.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/09\/Laura-Mercado-Headshot.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Grammy\u00ae and Latin Grammy\u00ae nominee, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, has been lauded by The New York Times as \u201csuperb\u201d, \u201cdramatically astute\u201d and \u201cstunningly agile\u201d. She performs and records regularly with Conspirare, and has appeared with other acclaimed ensembles including The Crossing, Seraphic Fire, Vocal Arts Ensemble, and Artefact Ensemble. Notable appearances include Charles Wuorinen\u2019s cantata It Happens Like This with The MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, and the west coast premiere of Toshio Hosokawa\u2019s one-woman opera, The Raven at the Los Angeles International New Music Festival. Ms. Mercado-Wright has appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, and the Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart. In addition to performing, Laura has been composing since 2020, and has premiered several of her pieces with VAMP, a female vocal quintet based in Austin, Texas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauramercadowright.com\">www.lauramercadowright.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy\u00ae and Latin Grammy\u00ae nominee, mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright, has been lauded by The New York Times as \u201csuperb\u201d, \u201cdramatically astute\u201d and \u201cstunningly agile\u201d. She performs and records regularly with Conspirare, and has appeared with other acclaimed ensembles including The Crossing, Seraphic Fire, Vocal Arts Ensemble, and Artefact Ensemble. Notable appearances include Charles Wuorinen\u2019s cantata It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"sidekick":"","layouts":false,"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}