Laura Brenneman is Stratford Music’s owner and primary educator and is a songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. Recent projects include music for Antipodes (Danspace, NYC) a commission from The Women’s Project (NYC) for Gurley, a new musical based on the life of Helen Gurley Brown, as well as arrangements and accompaniment for Martha Clarke’s The Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theatre Company, NYC). As composer-lyricist and co-creator of the puppet theatre piece Fox vs the Kingdom, she is the recipient of two Jim Henson Foundation production grants.

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 2021 Knutson 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 Collaborative Behavior through Group Composition". She is currently writing a book entitled 'All Over the Map," about teaching music all over the world (remotely) during the Covid-19 pandemic. She garnered her undergraduate education in composition and piano at UCLA, and holds a Master of Arts in Music Education from Hunter College.