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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.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzcomposersalliance.org/node/232|accessdate=12 October 2010|title=Laura Andel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724021200/http://www.jazzcomposersalliance.org/node/232|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzcomposersalliance.org/node/232|accessdate=12 October 2010|title=Laura Andel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724021200/http://www.jazzcomposersalliance.org/node/232|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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She is an associate professor at [[Hostos Community College]] of the [[City University of New York]] in the Bronx. |
She is an associate professor at [[Hostos Community College]] of the [[City University of New York]] in the Bronx.<ref>[https://commons.hostos.cuny.edu/ctl/prof-laura-andel-smartphones-as-a-self-reflection-tool-for-learning/ "Prof. Laura Andel: Smartphones as a Self-Reflection Tool for Learning"], Center for Teaching and Learning, Hostos Community College website. Retrieved 30 March 2024.</ref> |
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==Awards and honors== |
==Awards and honors== |
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Latest revision as of 12:13, 30 March 2024
Laura Andel (born 1968) is an Argentinian musician, conductor and composer.[1]
Biography[edit]
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]
She is an associate professor at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York in the Bronx.[4]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 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, New Hampshire, 2002)
- Artist-in-residence at Sacatar Foundation (Bahia, Brazil, 2003/2004)[3]
Works[edit]
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[edit]
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)[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Laura Andel Composer". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
- ^ "Biography". Archived from the original on 4 May 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Laura Andel". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ "Prof. Laura Andel: Smartphones as a Self-Reflection Tool for Learning", Center for Teaching and Learning, Hostos Community College website. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Recordings". Archived from the original on 16 September 2002. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- 20th-century women composers
- 21st-century women composers
- Argentine classical composers
- Argentine women classical composers
- Jazz-influenced classical composers
- Argentine people of Moldovan descent
- Hostos Community College faculty
- Argentine women composers
- Argentine conductors (music)
- Argentine women conductors (music)