Laurel Diskin Email & Phone Number

As part of the team at the Brand Library, I have worked the reference desk at Brand and also taken shifts at other branches in the system, which have provided experience with reference, circulation duties, and event coordination. In-person services have been suspended for the past year due to the pandemic, so the Brand Team has focused on the weekly.

Walt Disney Studios

I assisted with daily operations and maintenance of the Disney Concert Library, which rents music to performing arts organizations all over the world. The rental library is comprised of single pieces, full-evening shows, and films played live to projection. I also worked for BTW Copying service, also located on the studio lot, in much the same capacity as.

Culver City And Glendale, CA

JoAnn Kane Music Service is a music preparation business that supports the film industry. This company employs numerous skilled copyists, engravers, MIDI specialists and librarians to prepare the musical material that ends up in front of players for film, television, and album recordings, as well as live concerts. Because the business was born on the lot.

Van Nuys, California

I assisted with the daily administration of the library. Duties included all standard office tasks (answering phones, typing communications, scheduling meetings, working closely with others in a team environment), circulation responsibilities such as answering product inquiries, creating quotes, creating agreements (contracts), stocking, shipping, and.

Whittier, CA

I helped prepare parts for the stands (marking bowings, cuts, etc.), and prepared and distributed practice parts for the strings section. I set up a centralized email system for electronic distribution of practice parts and communicated directly and effectively with the concertmaster and the rest of the string players to make sure that these parts were.

Greater Los Angeles Area

In the Library: I assisted in the preparation of scores and parts for all members of the LA Opera Orchestra, various conductors (including resident maestro James Conlon), and all members of the LA Opera’s 60+ member chorus. My duties included the detail-oriented work of creating print masters (cleaning and darkening the originals to make for the best.

Los Angeles, CA

Successfully coordinated with the General Manager and the Manager of Production and Education to create and maintain a functioning performance library for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. LACO was a fantastic organization to be a part of, and I was happy to make a contribution to the cause.

Breckenridge, CO

In the summer of 2012 I worked here as an intern; in the summer of 2013 I returned as the Assistant Librarian. In addition to my duties from 2012 in 2013 I gained experience working with rentals and acquisitions, specifically for Pops music.I had an absolute blast working with the NRO, and the rest of the staff (not to mention the musicians!) is an.

I primarily worked for The Harmony Project's program at Alexandria Elementary School. The program at Alexandria runs three string orchestras: Orchestra Nova (a big feeder orchestra for the Harmony Project Hollywood site's Harmony Project Orchestra), Orchestra Pre-Nova (which feeds into Orchestra Nova), and Super Nova, an extra enrichment orchestra for O.

I began substituting here in 2003, and since 2008 I have been employed as a regular faculty member. This program offers low-cost private lessons to children and runs Tuesday through Saturday out of a beautiful, historic settlement house in Boyle Heights.

Tujunga, CA

I maintain and run three different levels of group violin classes, and I am working with the McGroarty center to implement a new system I have created. The idea is to run three levels of violin as year-long, 3-session courses that coordinate with the Suzuki books - Violin 1, Violin 2, and Violin 3. These three classes will run on an academic calendar.

Breckenridge, CO

From June to August of this year I processed scores and parts, created bowing masters, marked parts with bowings and cuts, created practice and performance parts, repaired music, maintained technology, communicated with rental agencies and publishers, inventoried music, verified accuracy of library holdings, prepared performance folders, distributed and.

The Saturday Conservatory of Music is a non-profit music education program that began over 30 years ago at Cal State L.A., offering low-cost group music lessons to children. Since 2000, it has been operating out of the Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena. I taught violin here for almost 10 years. It was a great experience.:-)

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis)

Mm (Masters Of Music), Violin Performance

Teaching Credential, Spanish

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Spanish Language And Literature

magna cum laude

Bm Music, Violin Performance

magna cum laude