Madeleine Ertel (she/her) is a trumpeter, composer, and arranger known for her honest and melodic approach to music making. A recent graduate of the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance (2020), she can be found performing in a wide variety of musical contexts throughout the Greater Toronto Area. In 2022 and 2023, Madeleine was selected as a finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Emerging Jazz Artist Award.

In her hometown of Kelowna, BC, Madeleine grew up playing original music around town with her sister, as well as studying classical piano and violin. Now based in Toronto, she continues to incorporate these diverse influences into her composing and improvising.

Madeleine has studied composition with David Braid as part of the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival in 2018 and was selected to attend the Engelsholm Jazz Workshop in Denmark in 2020. In November 2021 she was accepted into the Banff Musicians in Residence program for Jazz & Creative Music to explore her innovative ideas about contemporary contrapuntal writing. Her pieces have been performed by the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra, the University of Toronto 12tet, Andrew Downing's Hybrid Ensemble, and the TILT Composers' Collective.

She has also become a sought-after music transcriptionist in the Toronto music community. She was commissioned to transcribe and arrange several compositions for jazz producer Jesse Markowitz’s Palladium in April 2021. In July 2021, she was hired to transcribe 15 big band arrangements for the Toronto All-Star Big Band. Since the launch of her Patreon page in spring 2021, she has hosted monthly composition analysis sessions in which she shares the scores of pieces she has transcribed and what she has learned from them, in the hopes of fostering a sense of community and knowledge-sharing within the Toronto music scene.