{{Short description|Argentine musician, conductor and composer}} '''Laura Andel''' (born 1968) is an Argentinian musician, conductor and composer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/lauraandelcomposer|title=Laura Andel Composer|website=SoundCloud|language=en|access-date=2019-05-26}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lauraandel.com/bio.html|title=Biography|accessdate=12 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504120102/http://www.lauraandel.com/bio.html|archive-date=4 May 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>
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>
==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, New Hampshire, 2002) *Artist-in-residence at Sacatar Foundation (Bahia, Brazil, 2003/2004)<ref name=bio />
==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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lauraandel.com/recordings.html|accessdate=12 October 2010|title=Recordings|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020916225830/http://www.lauraandel.com/recordings.html|archive-date=16 September 2002|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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