Laura Andel

Laura Andel was born in Argentina of Moldovian heritage, and began music lessons in Buenos Aires at the age of five. She played woodwind as a child and began to compose at an early age. She graduated from Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires with a degree in Tango performance, and in January 1993, she began the study of jazz composition and music for film at Berklee College of Music in Boston.[2]

After completing her studies, Andel moved to New York City in 2000 where she has worked as a composer and conductor. She is the leader of the Laura Andel Orchestra and has conducted her music in cities including New York, Boston, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Berlin.[3]

• BMI Foundation-Jerry Harrington Jazz Composers Award
• Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy
• Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program Grant from the American Music Center
• Music Composition Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
• Artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH, 2002)
• Artist-in-residence at Sacatar Foundation (Bahia, Brazil, 2003/2004)[3]

Andel has focused on composing for large ensembles. Her compositions use elements from Jazz and classical music, and feature unusual combinations of instruments. Selected works include:

• SomnambulisT'
• In::Tension:..
• Doble Mano
• Apsides
• In the midst
• Noise Machine