Music educator, organist, and pianist Laura Potratz (she/they) is passionate about the awareness that results from the study of performing arts, both within the person and in the energy between and among people. She enjoys a private studio of organ, piano, and theory students both online and in Charlotte, NC, where she also does Celtic fiddling with the Charlotte Folk Society and plays flute with the Charlotte Pride Band. She is a proud past vocal coach of the South Africa ensemble 29:11 and past accompanist of the Voices of Hope prison choirs in Minnesota. As stage artist she has appeared with Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Theatre in the Round Players, Masquer's Theatre, Classics Lost 'n' Found, and the Charlotte JCC. She specializes in world organ music on her YouTube channel.

Laura holds a Master of Music and Musicology from Sorbonne Université completed in 2012 studying the use of visual colors in the notation of Pierre Boulez' Tombeau, Thomas Adès' Darkness Visible, and Naji Hakim's Sakskøbing Præludier. Her prior Maîtrise researched the state of François-Henri Clicquot's 18th century visual organ treatise. Having earned a Bachelors degree in organ performance with a minor in studio art from Valparaiso University (Indiana) in 2005, her studies there included three months abroad in Paris working with the Dalsbaek-Merklin organ builders on the restoration of the 1855 Merklin & Schütze organ at the church of St-Eugène-Ste-Cécile. Upon her return to the U.S., she worked for a year and a half for organ builder Goulding & Wood in Indianapolis. She moved to Paris in 2006 to study at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in the classes of counterpoint, harmony, analysis of early music, and music history. In 2010 she completed a Certificate in organ at the regional conservatory in Boulogne-Billancourt where she also taught the introductory organ class to children. 

In 2013 she earned her professional diploma (French DEM) in organ with Eric Lebrun at the conservatory in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés while also a voice student of Milanese vocal coach Matteo Carminati and a member of the Sebastian Wesley vocal ensemble and the Bach Collegium Paris. She spent several years as the assistant to the organist at the Reformed Church of St. Esprit and at the American Church in Paris where she was also a member of the Bronze Ringers handbell ensemble. From 2010 to 2013 she was professor of piano and musicianship at the conservatory in Ézanville (Val d'Oise).

For nine years in Minneapolis she worked variously as a classroom music specialist for the Bach Society of Minnesota, assistant director of the Augsburg University Masterworks Chorale, co-teacher with ComMUSICation, pipe organ technician, and in diverse religious music settings.