Ingrid Laubrock soprano and tenor saxophone

Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock has been living in the UK since 1989 and is now residing in Brooklyn.
She performed and recorded with: Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Tim Berne, Mark Helias, Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, John Edwards, Veryan Weston, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, Evan Parker, The Continuum Ensemble and others.

As part of the F-ire Collective, she won the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004.She also was nominated for the BBC Jazz Award for ‘Rising Star’ in 2005 and won a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006. She won the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize the and was one of the final nominees for the 2009 Westfalen Jazz Preis. Her octet CD Zürich Concert was one of the “Quarterly Critics’ Choice“ (“Bestenliste”) by the German Record Critics’ Award 2014.

Her current groups are Anti-House, Ingrid Laubrock Quintet, Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock Octet and the collaboration Paradoxical Frog with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. She is also part of several of Anthony Braxton’s groups, as well as the Tom Rainey Trio, Mary Halvorson’s Septet, Kris’ Davis Quintet, Andrew Drury’s Content Provider, Catatumbo, Haste and Luc Ex’ Sol 6 and Sol 12.