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OUR COMPOSERS
Laura Farnell
Laura presently lives in Arlington, Texas, and serves as an invited music conference presenter, as well as choral clinician for district, region, and state honor choirs across the country. She has served as a clinician for middle school state-wide honor choirs in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, and North Carolina, and has worked with various other elementary through high-school aged honor choirs. As a composer, she especially enjoys writing and arranging music for developing choirs and is represented by several music publishers. She has more than one hundred choral compositions in publication, including many commissioned pieces and a co-authored beginning sightsinging method book.
She is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, the Texas Music Adjudicators' Association, and The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. She and her husband, Russell, and their two sons, attend First Presbyterian Church of Arlington where Russell serves as Minister of Music and Laura directs the children's and youth choirs. |