James Laing has sung for companies including the Royal Opera, London, Classical Opera, the Early Opera Company, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, The Grange Festival, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, Opera North, Scottish Opera and Welsh National Opera. International engagements have included the Göttingen Festival, the Opéra de Nice and the Dresden Semperoper.

Concert engagements have included performances with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Dunedin Consort, the Hallé, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Spain, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. North American engagements have included performances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Arion Baroque of Montréal and Tafelmusik in Toronto.

Highlights of 2018 / 2019 included Peter Brødre at the Armel Opera Festival, Daniel Belshazzar for The Grange Festival and Demetrio Berenice for the Royal Opera, London. His current engagements include Peter Brødre for the Icelandic Opera, Daniel Belshazzar for Zurich Opera, Tolomeo Giulio Cesare for Opera North, Not the Christmas Oratorio on tour with Solomon’s Knot, Dixit Dominus with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Israel in Egypt at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. With Fiori Musicali, he appears in Handel with James Laing and sings Vivaldi Stabat Mater.

His recordings include J. S. Bach Magnificat (Atma CD), The Adventures of Pinocchio (Opus Arte Blu Ray / DVD) and Tobias and the Angel (Chandos CD).