Lauren Kinsella

Lauren Kinsella (* around 1983 in Dublin ) is an Irish jazz and improvisation musician ( vocals , composition ).

Live and act

Kinsella moved to London in 2010, where she received her Masters at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a duo with Sarah Buechi ( Sessile Oak , 2009) she first worked in the British jazz scene a. a. with Laura Jurds Chaos Orchestra ( Island Mentality ) and in the formation Thought-Fox . In 2012 she presented the joint production All This Talk About (Wide Ear Records) with Alex Huber . She also played in a duo with saxophonist Tom Challenger and in the sextet Abhra with French saxophonist Julien Pontvianne . She also appeared in the Somewhere in Between project at the Birmingham Literature Festival with actor Peter Campion ; she also worked with Ian Wilson ( I Burn for You ) and in the theater project The Last Siren . Currently (2018) she works in the Duo Snowpoet with the pianist Kit Downes .

Kinsella was awarded the Kenny Wheeler Prize in 2013 ; In 2015 she was a recipient of the Birmingham Jazzlines Fellowship . She has also received composition commissions from BBC Radio 3 and the Marsden Jazz Festival. In 2016 she received the PRS for Music Foundation Women Make Music Award , in 2017 a grant from the Arts Foundation. Kinsella teaches jazz at Leeds College of Music.

Discographic notes

Thought-Fox: My Guess ( Diatribe Recordings , 2013), with Colm O'Hare, Tom Gibbs, Mick Coady, Simon Roth
Julien Pontvianne , Francesco Diodati , Hannah Marshall , Alexandre Herer , Matteo Bortone , Lauren Kinsella: Abhra (Onze Heures Onze, 2016)
Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under the Moon (Edition, 2014), with Laura Jurd, Alex Roth, Corrie Dick

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c portrait , Irish Times , October 3, 2016
↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 20, 2018)
↑ Ian Patterson: Lauren Kinsella. All About Jazz , March 5, 2013, accessed January 7, 2018 .
↑ Lauren Kinsella wins £ 10,000 Jazz Composition Fellowship. M Magazine, January 31, 2017, accessed January 7, 2018 .
↑ Brief portrait at Leeds College of Music

personal data
SURNAME	Kinsella, Lauren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish jazz and improvisation musician (vocals, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dublin

[IT-1] rtrait , Irish Times , October 3, 2016

[lord-2] Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 20, 2018)

[aaj-3] Ian Patterson: Lauren Kinsella. All About Jazz , March 5, 2013, accessed January 7, 2018 .

[mm-4] Lauren Kinsella wins £ 10,000 Jazz Composition Fellowship. M Magazine, January 31, 2017, accessed January 7, 2018 .

[5] Brief portrait at Leeds College of Music