As the daughter of a Department of Defense engineer, SGM Laura Lesche spent her childhood in several different places, including Germany and Okinawa, Japan. SGM Lesche received a Master of Science degree in Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. Since joining The U.S. Army Field Band in 1998, SGM Lesche has entertained audiences in a wide variety of musical styles, performing with the Concert Band, Jazz Ambassadors, Volunteers, and Soldiers’ Chorus. SGM Lesche was a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra under the batons of Marvin Hamlisch, Erich Kunzel, and Emil de Cou.