Biography
Laura Bell has recently completed a Bachelor of Music (Performance) with First Class Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying with Hans-Dieter Michatz. Throughout her time at the Conservatorium, Laura has been a grateful recipient of numerous grants and prizes including the Commonwealth Learning Scholarship, Joan and James McIIrath Armstrong Scholarship, the John Ellyard Memorial Scholarship, The Women’s College Music Scholarship, Margaret Henderson Donation Account Scholarship, Francis and Josephine Anderson Scholarship, Mary Patricia Bell Grant, Suzie Williams Prize and Basil and Muriel Hooper Memorial Scholarship.
She has been guest soloist for Penrith Symphony Orchestra performing Karl Jenkins’s Imagined Oceans, and was featured as part of the Pini, Hazelwood and Friends concert series playing Vivaldi. She is co-founder and performs regularly with Bellatrix Recorder Quartet, and regularly performs solo in and outside of Sydney. Currently she is on staff at St Andrew’s Cathedral School, as well as teaching recorder and violin at Methodist Ladies College, Nicholson Street Public School, Annandale Public School and Yeo Park Infants School. Her pedagogical interests lie in particular with the Orff and Kodaly methods, in both recorder and violin.
Qualifications
Academic
BMUS (Perf) First Class Honours
Recorder
Licentiate Diploma LMUS A with Distinction, 2005
Associate Diploma AMUS A, 2001
(Teacher: Hans Dieter-Michatz, Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
Violin
Eighth grade, 2001
(Teacher: Alex Todicescu, Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
Musicianship/Theory
Sixth Grade, 1998
Theory Classes: Australian Institute of Music, 2000-2002
HSC music 2 & extension music 2002,2003 (2nd Top in State)
See also