A classical career: born in 1992, Laura Totenhagen came into contact with music at an early age. First piano lessons and later on she switched to the oboe as the instrument of her choice. She is talented, she is diligent, she is consistent and straightforward. She performs from early on, with first concert tours and CD recordings as part of the Bundesjugendorchester (national youth orchestra of the Federal Republic of Germany). As a young student at the Cologne University of Music she intensifies her classical studies. However, at some point during her youth she starts writing and singing her own songs. She attends jazz concerts and is fascinated by the possibilities that present themselves here. She studies jazz vocals, sings in the Bundesjazzorchester (German Federal Jazz Orchestra), is supported by the Studienstiftung and has been awarded various prizes. She completed her Master’s degree with distinction in February 2020 and started teaching at the Hochschule Osnabrück immediately afterwards.

Laura Totenhagen is an experienced musician, a very multi-faceted one, who understands how to make feminist influence and social commitment perceptible beyond the inner references of her music, through the choice of lyrics she sings and the authors she uses, and how to keep her music receptive to continually new stylistic influences.