Laura Jurd

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Laura Jurd (2016)

Laura Jurd (* 1990 ) is a British jazz musician ( trumpet , synthesizer , composition ).

Live and act

Jurd grew up in Medstad in Hampshire . As a four-year-old she played the piano at home. In elementary school she started playing the trumpet. As a 16-year-old, I was impressed by my own compositions at college. She shaped classical and jazz very early on. One of her teachers was the composer Martin Read, who died in 2012.

Until 2013 she studied at Trinity College of Music in London . Jurd has been leading the Dinosaur quartet since 2010 , with whom she has made several guest appearances in Germany; She also plays in the Human Spirit Septet and the Chaos Orchestra ; she also writes for these bands. She also composed for the BBC Concert Orchestra , the Ligeti Quartet around Mandhira de Saram and the Northern Sinfonia . She teaches composition at the Trinity Laban Conservatory for Music and Dance in London.

Prizes and awards

Jurd received one of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2015 as “Instrumentalist of the Year” ; in the same year she was voted "Rising Star" at the British Jazz Awards . She was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicers' 2011 Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition and the 2012 Young Jazz Musician Award . In 2012 she was nominated for a BASCA Contemporary Jazz Composer Award . In 2017 her album Together As One was nominated for the Mercury Prize .

Discographic notes

  • Landing Ground (2012, with Ligeti Quartet, Ben Davis, Elliot Galvin , Conor Chaplin, Corrie Dick )
  • Human Spirit (2015, with Lauren Kinsella , Chris Batchelor , Colm O'Hara, Alex Roth, Mick Foster, Corrie Dick)
  • Dinosaur: Together As One (2016, with Elliot Galvin, Conor Chaplin, Corrie Dick)
  • Stepping Back, Jumping In (2019, with Ligeti Quartet, Raphael Clarkson or Alex Paxton, Martin Lee Thomson, Elliot Galvin, Soosan Lolavar, Rob Luft, Anja Lauvdal, Conor Chaplin, Corrie Dick, Liz Exell)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sounds in Concert: Laura Jurd Dinosaur ( Memento from January 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) ( Radio Bremen )
  2. ↑ Composer Profile - Laura Jurd . British Composer Awards 2012. Archived from the original on July 28, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ meeting (jazzcity)
personal data
SURNAME Jurd, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (trumpet, synthesizer, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1990