^Smith, Alexa Christina.
"Q&A With David Laganella, Associate Professor Of Music"Archived 2020-02-17 at the
Wayback Machine, The Whetstone, January 13, 2015. Accessed February 17, 2020. "Alexa Smith: Where are you from? David Laganella: Originally? Philadelphia. AS: Is that where you were raised? DL: I was raised in Philadelphia and I was also raised in Haddonfield, N.J."
^Shyrock, Bob.
"Quartet to perform Woodbury resident's work", NJ Advance Media for
NJ.com, May 27, 2010, updated January 18, 2019. Accessed February 17, 2020. "Laganella has resided in Woodbury for two years with his wife, Hillary, a speech therapist, and their 14-month-old son, Lucas, observing that he 'fell in love with the neighborhood.' A cellist at Haddonfield High, Class of ‘92, he studied music at Glassboro State College and earned degrees from NYU (music theory and composition) and Penn (Ph.D. in music composition)."