Laurie Jarski is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, and the owner/director of Broughton Music Center, Northville Center for Music & Art, and the WPI Festival On the Land Music Camp for Women & Girls. She performs as a cellist and multi-instrumentalist with the Blues Aside Project, C•O•R•E tet String Quartet, Octocelli Cello Ensemble, Presence of Three Trio, Red Willow Dream, and the Battle Creek Symphony. She also coaches the String Quartet Plus program for youth and adult musicians in both Northville and Kalamazoo.

Laurie is currently co-producing an original album slated for release in 2026. Her recent commissions include Safe Days for mandolin & bass, and Flipside Records for cello, minstrel banjo & cajón for the Ripple Effect exhibit at Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Connecting Chords (2025); The Nine Trees of KL Ave Sent Underground for mandolin, banjo, minstrel banjo, string quartet & percussion, commissioned by the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music (2021); and Egyptian Blue Jazz Bowl for solo guitar and Untitled Brazilian Mirage, commissioned by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (2020).

Her larger-scale works include God Rest Ye! Orchestral Renderings (2015), Funky Blues for cello quartet (2012), Travel Modalities for 16 celli (2012), The Star to Every Wandering Bark (2010), and An Amethyst Remembrance (1995).

Laurie’s music is distinguished by antiphonal interplay, rhythmic vitality, and richly layered color—woven around lyrical, melody-driven writing that reflects her folk origins as a singer-songwriter beginning at age nine. Her fascination with percussive elements often leads her to explore rhythmic possibilities on instruments not commonly used for percussion, creating unexpected and compelling sonic textures.

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Services and products range from compositions, arrangements, performance, to private and group coaching.