Laura Orzehoski is a Philadelphia-based trombonist who currently is enrolled in Jazz Studies at Temple University under the direction of Terell Stafford. She studies under trombonists Mark Patterson and Joe McDonough and pianist Tim Brey as a full-time student at Temple. Although a classically trained pianist since the age of seven, Laura took up jazz trombone and piano at age eleven. She has been performing locally at churches, retirement homes, and school events since the age of ten on pieces that represent her classical and jazz playing on both instruments.