Laura Wilcox is a graduate from SUNY-Purchase School of Music in New York and McGill University in Montreal. She has studied with Emanuel Vardi, Lorand Fenyves, Robert Levin, Charles Castleman, Paul Rolland, and John Graham. Further studies include coaching with members of the Emerson, Juilliard, Cleveland, and Orford string quartets.

Ms. Wilcox is currently the professor of viola at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University (Harid) where she has formed the "Voila Viola" ensemble featuring students from her studio class. Outside of her solo recitals, she performs regularly with her colleagues of the Conservatory.

She has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Chalmers Foundation, the Laidlaw Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council. Besides most of the classical repertoire for viola, Ms. Wilcox has performed an extensive list of contemporary works, many of which have been commissioned or written for her. She has recorded for the labels SNE, Empreintes bigitales, and York. Ms. Wilcox is Professor of viola at the Conservatory of Music, Lynn University, Florida.

Recently performed works include the world premiere of Sergio Barroso's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Penderecki and Bartok viola concertos, the North and South American premieres of the Sonata for Solo Viola by Gyorgy Ligeti, and compositions by Xenakis, Barroso, Piazzolla, Henze, Yun, Feldman, and Cage.

Recent major performances include solo recitals at Montreal Pollack Hall, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Porto Alegre International Festival of New Music, International Festival "Campos do Jord", the 1999 World Viola Congress, Montreal Chapelle du Bon-Pasteur, Sao Paulo Teatro Sao Pedro, and Toronto Glenn Gould Studio, 1999 Rio de Janeiro "Saulo Vinte" festival, as well as soloist appearances with the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, and the Esprit Orchestra in Toronto. Other performances include the Gaudeamus, Bravo!, Scotia, Aspen, Grand Teton, Made in Canada, ISEA, and Sound Symposium festivals and numerous recitals and live recordings for CBC "Two New Hours" across Canada. She has participated in the BONK New Music Festival and the festival of the Americas in Miami, Florida.