Laura Jurd

Laura Jurd

Laura Jurd is a British contemporary jazz musician and composer from Hampshire, United Kingdom. She plays trumpet and synthesizer, and she works both as a solo artist and as part of several ensembles, including Dinosaur, Blue-Eyed Hawk, Chaos Orchestra and Jasper Høiby’s Fellow Creatures.

Career

Jurd performs and composes in the British jazz quartet Dinosaur. The group’s album Together, As One is nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017. She also releases music under her own name.

Teaching and wider work

She teaches composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Jurd is also a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme.

Awards

Jurd wins the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2011 and the Young Jazz Musician award in 2012. She is shortlisted for a BASCA Contemporary Jazz Composer award in 2012 and receives the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Instrumentalist of the Year in 2015.