Laura Jurd
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Female
The details
Biography
Introduction
Laura Jurd (born 1990) is a musician and composer from Hampshire, United Kingdom. She plays trumpet and synthesizer.
Jurd teaches composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.
Discography
- Landing Ground, November 2012
- Human Spirit, January 2015
- (with Dinosaur) Together, As One, 16 September 2016
In July 2017, Together, As One was nominated for the Mercury Prize.
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. She won ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ in the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Award, the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2011 and Young Jazz Musician award in 2012. She was shortlisted for a BASCA Contemporary Jazz Composer award in 2012.