Laura Jurd

Laura Jurd
Background information
Born 1990
Origin Medstead, Hampshire, UK[1]
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician and composer
Instruments Trumpet, synthesizer
Labels Edition Records.
Associated acts Blue-Eyed Hawk
Dinosaur
Elliot Galvin Trio
Corrie Dick
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Website www.laurajurd.com

Laura Jurd (born 1990) is a musician and composer from Hampshire, United Kingdom. She plays trumpet and synthesizer. She has released two albums as a solo artist, and she also plays in a jazz quartet named Dinosaur, whose album Together, As One was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017.[2]

Jurd teaches composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.[3]

Discography

  • Landing Ground, November 2012
  • Human Spirit, January 2015
  • (with Dinosaur) Together, As One, 16 September 2016

Associated acts

Jurd composes for and plays in British jazz quartet Dinosaur.

Accolades

Jurd on stage in Cardiff in October 2016 with Corrie Dick.

Jurd is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists.[4] She won ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ in the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Award,[5] the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2011[6] and Young Jazz Musician award in 2012.[7] She was shortlisted for a BASCA Contemporary Jazz Composer award in 2012. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Fordham, John (12 September 2013). "Jazz trumpeter Laura Jurd: 'I just like making things up'". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ Beaumont, Mark (27 July 2017). "Mercury Music Prize 2017: what you need to know about the nominees". NME.
  3. ↑ "Laura Jurd Biography". Laura Jurd. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  4. ↑ "Jazz Now, Laura Jurd and Dinosaur". BBC. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  5. ↑ "This year's Parliamentary Jazz Awards". Jazzwise. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition". The Worshipful Company of Musicians. Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  7. ↑ "Young Jazz Musician". The Worshipful Company of Musicians. Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  8. ↑ "Composer Profile - Laura Jurd". British Composer Awards 2012. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
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