Laura Biemmi is a musicologist and oboist from Western Australia. She completed her PhD entitled 'Opera as Sexualwissenschaft: sexology, the ‘third sex’, and the intermediary voice in Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos' in 2023. During the completion of her doctoral studies, she worked as a lecturer and unit coordinator at the University of Western Australia for three years. In addition to her research, Laura has worked as a freelance oboist for a number of professional orchestras and chamber ensembles, and as such has a huge love of music and particularly for all things orchestral and operatic.