About

Michael Laurello’s compositional work, praised for its “intricate structure” and “hints of thrashing and angularity” (The Wall Street Journal), reflects a fascination with time, energy, and emotion. It has been presented at venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, MATA, PASIC, Carlsbad Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA), National Conference of the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) by artists including icarus Quartet, Bluecoats, United States Marine Band, The U.S. Army Band, Nashville Symphony, Sō Percussion, HOCKET, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, Yale Percussion Group, and Ensemble Repercussion featuring the Duisburger Philharmoniker and Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. 

Laurello studied composition at Yale School of Music and Tufts University, and music synthesis (electronic production and design) at Berklee College of Music. His mentors include David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick, and John McDonald. Honors include a residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, a commission from the American Composers Forum, a Nashville Symphony Composer Lab Fellowship, selection for the EarShot Berkeley Symphony Readings, and a Baumgardner Fellowship and Commission from the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He has attended the highSCORE and Etchings composition festivals, and was a fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival.

His recording, mixing, and multimedia work is focused on contemporary classical music and can be heard on labels such as Furious Artisans, Ravello, Albany, Equilibrium, New Focus, and MSR Classics. He currently serves as Manager of Recording Services and Technical Engineer for the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University.