Background
Antonioli was born in Marin County, California.
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Laurie Antonioli
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Antonioli studied jazz for two years at Mountain. Hood College in Gresham, Oregon.
Career
Formerly a professor at KUG University"s Jazz Institute in Graz, Austria, inn 2014 she is the Chair of the Vocal Department at the California Jazz Conservatory. At the age of sixteen Antonioli began playing guitar and performing primarily her own original music as well as that of the singer-songwriters of the era. After graduation, Antonioli continued composing and performing.
In 1980, she toured for eight months with New Orleans saxophonist Pony Poindexter.
The tour was cut short in Europe when Poindexter suffered a stroke and Laurie returned with him to the United States. Antonioli had a daughter in 1983, and for several years touring and performing at night were limited.
In 1985 she signed with Catero Records. Antonioli"s first recording was a "live to 2-track" album, Soul Eyes, with the title track composed by Mal Waldron.
On this album she was accompanied by pianist George Cables.
The album included jazz standards, original lyrics and also featured songs by Larry Gelb, and was produced by Bob Parlocha. After a number of years during which she was not involved professionally in music, Antonioli settled in Vienna from 2002 to 2006 and began recording again. Her project Foreign Affair, released on Nabel Records, was a Balkan/Jazz hybrid, recorded in Slovenia, using musicians from Serbia, Albania, Germany and the United States. The recording had was well received in Europe.
Her next release was The Duo Session, also on Nabel Records, with pianist Richie Beirach playing in duo, Antonioli writing lyrics to Beirach"s compositions as well as lyrics to Miles Davis tunes and some free improvisational pieces.
This recording was also well received, but like Foreign Affair was known primarily to European audiences. Antonioli worked as the Professor of the Vocal Department at KUG University"s Jazz Institute in Graz, Austria from 2002 to 2006. and performing in Europe, Antonioli was offered a position at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, California as the school"s director
Antonioli created an eight semester vocal performance curriculum which was accredited by NASM in 2013. She also released her second American recording in 2010, American Dreams which received critical acclaim.
In 2014 Antonioli released a tribute album to Joni Mitchell, "Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light" on Origin Records.
Antonioli has worked with a number of well-known jazz musicians, including Joe Henderson and Richie Beirach with whom she still performs, records and writes with as of 2014.
