Laura Brenneman is a singer-songwriter and educator based in Brooklyn, NY . Her self-titled EP was recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn in the winter of 2009, with legendary Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, They Might Be Giants, Laura Cantrell) as producer, and featuring the late Anton Fier. She is currently at work on a long-awaited LP, set to release in late 2026.

As a teaching artist, Laura holds certification in Dalcroze Pedagogy from the Lucy Moses School (NYC). She has taught students in both public and private schools in NYC, including Berkeley Carroll, Talent Unlimited High School, and Packer Collegiate Institute. Laura is the recipient of a 2021Knutson Grant for professional development in music education from the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She is also a 2021 recipient of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s ‘Empire State Creates’ grant for her curriculum project,"The Classroom Album: Fostering CollaborativeBehavior through Group Composition". She garnered her undergraduate education in composition and piano at UCLA, and holds a Master of Arts in Music Education from Hunter College.

With collaborator Jenny Mercein, she is the recipient of a 2023 Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Art and Music Fund grant (Newcomb Institute)to support the development of a new musical based on the life of artist Hilma af Klint. As composer-lyricist and co-creator of the puppet theater piece Fox vs the Kingdom, she is the recipient of two Jim Henson Foundation production grants. Other projects include music for Antipodes (Danspace, NYC) a commission from The Women’s Project (NYC) for Gurley, a musical based on the life of Helen Gurley Brown, arrangements and accompaniment for Martha Clarke’s The Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theatre Company, NYC), and original songs for the TV series Heirloom.

Laura is the owner of two music studios in Park Slope, Brooklyn: The Music Room, a membership space dedicated to the art of practicing and teaching music, as well as her personal studio, Stratford Music.