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Laura Andel (born in 1968) is a talented musician, conductor, and composer from Argentina. She is known for creating unique music that blends elements of jazz and classical styles.

About Laura Andel

Laura Andel was born in Argentina and has family roots from Moldova. She started her music journey very early, taking lessons in Buenos Aires when she was just five years old. As a child, she played woodwind instruments and began writing her own music.

She studied at the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires, where she earned a degree in Tango performance. In January 1993, she moved to Boston to study jazz composition and music for films at the famous Berklee College of Music.

After finishing her studies, Andel moved to New York City in 2000. There, she has worked as a composer and conductor. She leads her own group, the Laura Andel Orchestra. She has conducted her music in many major cities around the world, including New York, Boston, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Berlin.

Today, Laura Andel is also a professor at Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York in the Bronx.

Awards and Special Recognitions

Laura Andel has received several important awards and honors for her musical work:

• 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 in Peterborough, New Hampshire (in 2002)
• Artist-in-residence at Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil (in 2003 and 2004)

Her Musical Works

Andel mainly focuses on composing music for large groups of musicians, often called ensembles. Her compositions combine sounds and ideas from both jazz and classical music. She is also known for using unusual combinations of instruments in her pieces.

Some of her selected works include:

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

Recorded Music (Discography)

Here are some of the albums and recordings featuring Laura Andel's music:

• Berklee Discover (released in 1997)
• SomnambulisT Orchestra SomnambulisT (Red Toucan, released in 2002)
• Laura Andel Orchestra/Doble Mano
• Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra In, Thru, and Out (released in 2003)
• Amalgam(e) 10 years of Red Toucan (released in 2004)
• Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra Celebration of the Spirit (released in 2004)
• Laura Andel Electric Percussive Orchestra/I n : : t e n s i o n : (Rossbin Records, released in 2005)

She also has several independent releases:

• Laura Andel Music for [+°-] 20 Musicians (Music by Laura Andel, released in 2000)
• Laura Andel Jazz Orchestra (Music by Laura Andel, released in 1997)
• Laura Andel & Oli Bott Jazz Orchestra Live in Berlin 1999 (Music by Laura Andel and Oli Bott, released in 1999)
• Laura Andel & Oli Bott Jazz Orchestra (Music by Laura Andel and Oli Bott, released in 1998)