Lauren Pearl

Lauren Pearl, Soprano, is an interdisciplinary artist devoted to awakening deeper awareness and connection through presence, awe, and embodied creativity. Her work weaves mindful and equitable space-holding with a fluid integration of artistic mediums, inviting audiences into invigorating, transformative experiences.

Celebrated as “an artist of subtle skill” (Classical CD Choice), with a “robust, dramatic voice” (Broadway World) and a “luscious, rich tone” (Opera Canada), Lauren is known for her chameleonic stage presence and boundary-blending artistry. She self-directed an immersive performance of Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi in recital at the Canadian Opera Company, singing while painting across a canvas-covered stage. With Tapestry Opera, she originated the acrobatic role of Louise in Gould’s Wall, performing suspended, climbing, and dancing while singing—a portrayal that later earned her a Dora Award nomination. She also incorporated modern dance and improvisation into the creation of the Nurse in the world premiere of 10 Days in a Madhouse, a role she is honoured to reprise. 

Her commitment to improvisation, presence, and collective creation continues to shape her recent work. While in residence with NoExit New Music, she led the ensemble in a fully improvised performance grounded in circle practice, movement, and somatic awareness. 

Notable appearances include debuts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and performances with the Canadian Opera Company, Opera Philadelphia, Tapestry Opera, Against the Grain Theatre, Marlboro Music, Chamberfest Cleveland, the New York Choral Society, Sota Music India, and Echo Chamber Toronto. Yet of deepest importance to Lauren were the moments of collaboration with students, communities, and the lands that hold these institutions. This call to relationship—between voice, land, and community—now guides her artistic path: co-creating with nature through circle work and improvisation, led by ancestral teachings. A dedicated Vipassana meditator, she sits and serves for extended periods, grounding her artistic and personal evolution in deep contemplative practice.

Lauren lives off-grid as a guest on the unceded traditional Quw’utsun territory of the Hul’q’umi’num-speaking peoples, where she teaches at a nature school and is learning to live in harmony with all relations, seeking to walk a path of justice, unity, and peace. Returning to the land to learn to listen and rewild, she stands in artistic activism for old-growth forests and waters and learns in circle with knowledge keepers. Through this transformational return, she accepted the name Siren.

Siren, as an additional name, reflects her mission: to serve as a call for the Earth—in both senses—to serenade with love and to sound the alarm. Inviting us to listen deeply to the cries of the land and our global communities, and to remember how to love ourselves, the Earth, and one another. Her ongoing work is a reawakening to the world’s divine resonance, guided by the community, lands and waters of the Quw’utsun Valley and the old-growth forests in the traditional territory of the Pacheedaht First Nation.

Lauren trained in the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio and Opera Philadelphia’s Emerging Artist Program and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music.