Laura Intravia ’09 To Be Included on “Video Games Live” on PBS July 31st
While most of her classmates remember Laura as a composer and singer, she was also very active as a flutist prior to college. She is also a huge video game/anime fan. While attending Otakon in 2008, a major convention in the field, she dressed up as her favorite video game character, put together an arrangement of video game music for live flute and electronic track, and performed a skit in their talent show. Her friends in the audience taped it and posted it on Youtube where it became a huge hit, just a few weeks after posting. It got a lot of attention from the gaming/anime community, eventually making its way to Tommy Tallarico, a prolific and well-known American video game composer. His touring stage show called Video Games Live takes the most popular video game music from the past four decades and arranges it for symphonic orchestra. The live performance is synchronized with screens showing footage of each game, along with lighting effects and other stage show elements.
Laura continues the story, “After Tommy saw my video on Youtube, he invited me to perform with VGL that summer at their San Diego show. So of course I said yes! I flew to the show, performed my skit, and it was a huge hit, everyone loved it, including Tommy! Soon after the San Diego show, he invited me to perform with them on their 4-city Brazil tour in October; it was during that tour that he found out that I am a singer, and since then I have both performed as a vocalist and flutist for several different pieces of their show, both in and out of costume. Since then, I have performed at several of their shows all over the world, including Brazil, China, Taiwan and Malaysia, as well as several major cities in the US.”
Video Games Live will be airing a 90 minute version of the concert on PBS on July 31st, 2010. Laura will be seen and heard as flutist in this program. After the broadcast, the entire three-hour concert (including more performances with Laura) will be available on DVD/Blu-Ray, along with special features, including interviews with several American composers, designers and performers, including Laura. More information about the PBS special and DVD.
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