About: Laura Burrell is the band director at Hilburn Academy. When she is not making awesome music with her students, Ms. Burrell loves spending time with her family and her golden retriever, Baloo.

Alumni: Appalachian State University

Favorite Childhood Book: The Witches, Roald Dahl

Favorite Quote: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." Leonard Bernstein

Twitter: @HilburnBand