Laura Karpman, Chief ‘Girl’

Composer Laura Karpman says her experience with film and TV helped on the 'Hidden World of Girls' project.

Laura Karpman’s resumé looks like the result of a life without downtime. The genre-bending lead composer for Hidden World of Girls has won four Emmys for her sci-fi television scores and written music for video games, film, opera, string quartets and world premiere commissions. “I definitely do collaboration,” Karpman says. “All of these concert music pieces I’ve done lately so profoundly draw from my work as a film composer.  Even the really technical stuff came directly from the TV work.”

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Hidden World of Girls

'Hidden World of Girls' premieres July 28 as part of the Cabrillo Music Festival. Photo by Terry Way Photography.

What does it mean to grow up female? An ambitious multimedia collaboration between NPR’s Kitchen Sisters and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music explores a dynamic question through sound, light, story and music. Hidden World of Girls</i has its world premiere Saturday, July 28 in Santa Cruz.

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