Madeleine Ertel is a Canadian composer, arranger, and trumpet player known for her honest approach to music-making. After spending many years as an active member of the Toronto music scene and completing a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Trumpet Performance at the University of Toronto (2020), she recently made the move to Berlin to pursue a Masters in Jazz Composition/Arrangement at the Jazz-Institut Berlin. Madeleine has studied composition with David Braid and Alexander Rapoport. In 2026, she was selected to attend the Michael Nesbitt Composer’s Institute which included the world premiere of her orchestral composition “Dance in Fragments” by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Her compositions and arrangements have been premiered by the Big Bang Ensemble as part of Toronto’s Women from Space Festival, the University of Toronto Hybrid ensemble, and the TILT Composer’s Collective. In 2023 she co-founded the Shoebox Composer’s Collective – a DIY concert series based in Toronto that aims to create more opportunities for emerging composers to hear their work played live.
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