Laura Ortman performs as a multi-instrumental soloist and in collaborations.

She plays the violin, Apache-style violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, pedal steel guitar, and sings.

"Laura Ortman was adopted at birth and grew up in Alton, Illinois. She grew up in a musical family. Her mother, Terri Ortman was a pianist who managed a youth orchestra for 20 years. Her sister played the flute and harp, her brother played the french horn. Her 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. As a teen, Ortman was a part of the St. Louis Youth Symphony. She reconnected with her birth family in Arizona in 2011."

"Ortman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas, where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture and performance art."

"After moving to New York in 1997, she began doing improvisational music for modern dancers, soon attracting the attention of the New York Native community." (source Wikipedia)

Major performances include: 2019 Whitney Museum Biennial; imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival; Whitney Museum of American Art; The National Museum of the American Indian; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; MoMA P.S. 1; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.

Experimental,

Musician, composer, bandleader

Guitar, Piano, violin, Vocals