Laura Jekel

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Boston, Usa
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Dania Jekel

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Cellist Laura Jekel has performed and taught throughout Latin America and the United States. After earning a bachelor of music degree at Indiana University in Bloomington, she traveled to Ecuador where she was a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guayaquil and cello professor at the music school Fronteras Musicales Abiertas. She gave master classes and recitals throughout Ecuador, including performances of the Dvorak, Schumann and Haydn C Major cello concertos with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Loja and the Cuen-K Ensamble. While at Indiana University, she won two overseas study grants from the Honors College. The first grant allowed her to participate in the Festival de la Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de las Americas, an orchestra festival in Puerto Rico. The second grant allowed her to travel as invited principal cellist of the Long Island Youth Orchestra on their tour of South America. Aside from her solo and orchestral work, Laura is an avid teacher. While living in Ecuador, she was invited to be a visiting faculty member at the Universidad Juan N. Corpus, a leading music university in Bogotá, Colombia. During the summer, she is the cello teacher at Encore/Coda, a music camp in Maine. Since returning from Ecuador in 2007, Laura has studied at Carnegie Mellon University, where she completed her master of music degree, and at the Peabody Institute. Her teachers have included Carol Ou, Emilio Colón, Anne Martindale Williams and Alan Stepansky.

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