Laura Ortman is an American musician from Whiteriver, Arizona who lives in Brooklyn, New York City.
11 Facts About Laura Ortman
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Laura Ortman's mother, Terri Ortman was a pianist who managed a youth orchestra for 20 years.
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Laura Ortman's sister played the flute and harp, her brother played the french horn.
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Laura Ortman's grandmother, Mrs Hummer was a symphony violinist in Des Moines, Iowa Ortman describes her grandmother as influencing her taste in classical music introducing her to musicians such as Sibelius, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Bartok.
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In 2001, Laura Ortman reconnected with her birth family in Arizona.
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Laura Ortman has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas, where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture and performance art.
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Laura Ortman's practise includes recorded albums, live performances, film and artistic soundtracks.
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Laura Ortman has collaborated with artists such as Nanobah Becker, Martin Bisi, Raven Chacon, Tony Conrad, Martha Colburn, Jeffery Gibson, Okkyung Lee, Caroline Monnet, and Jock Soto.
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Laura Ortman plays Apache style violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, pedal steel guitar, and sings.
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Laura Ortman received $20,000 in 2017 from the Jerome Foundation to create of a "collaborative collage" an Indigenous New York City Walking Soundtrack, that fused spoken word, song, din, movement, air, whispers and atmosphere, capturing a changing and personal Native American New York experience.
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Laura Ortman captured atmospheric recordings using the mobile recording unit she created.