Naomi LaViolette (she/her) is a composer, collaborative pianist, singer-songwriter, and recording artist based in Portland, Oregon. Recent choral commissions include Vox Femina Los Angeles, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, and Oregon Repertory Singers. She is a recipient of the Yale Emerging Composers Award, the CCDA/Heussenstamm Choral Composition Prize, and the Houston Choral Society Composition Prize. Praised by Fanfare Magazine for her "mastery of choral writing," she is a published composer with Graphite Publishing and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Her music for choirs, ensembles, and solo performance spans classical, jazz, folk, and popular genres, and is rooted in themes of nature, spirituality, and human connection.

Her versatile career as a musician includes appearances at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, CBS Sunday Morning, the Portland Jazz Festival, six singer-songwriter albums, solo piano releases as Lucente Skye, and over two decades as collaborative pianist for the Oregon Repertory Singers. She has also collaborated as both composer and performer on Billboard-charting and American Prize-winning recordings.

Naomi is proud to now be a student of internationally acclaimed composer Raphael Fusco. Naomi holds a master’s degree in piano performance and studied with Tanya Stambuk, Harold Gray, and Randy Porter. While she writes music in a wide range of genres, her music for choirs, ensembles, and solo performance is rooted in themes of nature, spirituality, and human connection.