Lauren Speeth

Lauren Speeth has been writing music since she could hold a blue crayon… but she first began dreaming of a career as a songwriter while reading ‘songwriter’ magazine and  plotting her escape from high school.  A solo light lyric soprano in the invitation-only choir Singing Angels when she was a youth, her most recent vocal coaches include Eleanor Cohen and Faith Winthrop. Although Lauren would love to sing like Linda Tillery, Kathleen Battle or Astrud Gilberto,  she’ll settle for her own authentic voice.  As a musician, Speeth has had the good fortune to study with wonderful piano and flute instructors, with guitarists Jeffrey Chinn and John Cordell (and many friends including Michael Lorimer and fellow band mate Josh), and with such master violin pedagogues as Betty Haag, Christopher Kranyak, Joseph Gold, Jeremy Cohen and Aaron Rosand.   For Lauren, music is a great way to get in touch with the divine, and to make ‘a joyful noise.’ She's especially excited about the possibilities of using joining her voice with others in the interests of compassionate understanding and social justice efforts.