Laura Andel (born 1968) is an Argentinian musician, conductor and composer.[1]
Biography
Laura Andel was born in Argentina and has Moldovan descent, 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]
Awards and honors
- 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]
Works
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
Discography
Music recorded and released on CD includes:
- Berklee Discover (1997)
- SomnambulisT Orchestra SomnambulisT Red Toucan (2002)
- Laura Andel Orchestra/Doble Mano
- Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra In, Thru, and Out (2003)
- Amalgam(e) 10 years of Red Toucan (2004)
- Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra Celebration of the Spirit (2004)
- Laura Andel Electric Percussive Orchestra/I n : : t e n s i o n : Rossbin Records (2005)
Independent releases:
- Laura Andel Music for [+°-] 20 Musicians Music by Laura Andel (2000)
- Laura Andel Jazz Orchestra Music by Laura Andel (1997)
- Laura Andel & Oli Bott Jazz Orchestra Live in Berlin 1999 Music by Laura Andel and Oli Bott (1999)
- Laura Andel & Oli Bott Jazz Orchestra Music by Laura Andel and Oli Bott (1998)[4]
References
- ↑ "Laura Andel Composer". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
- ↑ "Biography". Archived from the original on 4 May 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- 1 2 "Laura Andel". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ↑ "Recordings". Archived from the original on 16 September 2002. Retrieved 12 October 2010.