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Lauren Kinsella
Background information
Born1983 (age 40–41)
GenresJazz, improvisation music
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
InstrumentVocal
LabelsEdition Records
Websitelaurenkinsella.com

Lauren Kinsella (born 1983 in Dublin) is an Irish jazz and improvisation music singer and composer.

Biography

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Kinsella moved to London in 2010, where she earned her master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London.[1] After singing in a duo with Sarah Buechi (Sessile Oak, 2009) she started working in the British jazz scene with Laura Jurds Chaos Orchestra (Island Mentality) and in the band Thought-Fox, among others.[2] In 2012, she co-produced All This Talk About (Wide Ear Records) with Alex Huber. She also played in duo with saxophonist, Tom Challenger and in the sextet, Abhra led by the French saxophonist, Julien Pontvianne. In addition, she appeared in the project Somewhere in Between on the Birmingham Literature Festival with the actor Peter Campion. She also worked with Ian Wilson (I Burn for You) and in the theater project t The Last Siren.[3] Currently (2018) she works in a duo Snowpoet with the pianist Kit Downes.

Kinsella was awarded the 2013 Kenny Wheeler Prize. In 2015, she was a scholarship holder of the Birmingham Jazzlines Fellowship. She also received commissions from BBC Radio 3 and the Marsden Jazz Festival. In 2016, she received a PRS Music Foundation for Women Make Music Award, and in 2017 a scholarship from the Arts Foundation.[4] Kinsella teaches jazz at Leeds College of Music.[5]

Discography

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With Thought-Fox
With Blue-Eyed Hawk
With Snowpoet (Chris Hyson)
  • 2014: Butterfly EP (Self Release)
  • 2016: Snowpoet (Two Rivers)
  • 2018: Thought You Knew (Edition)
  • 2021: Wait For Me (Edition)
With Julien Pontvianne, Francesco Diodati, Hannah Marshall, Alexandre Herer, and Matteo Bortone
  • 2016: Abhra (Onze Heures Onze)
With Seafarers
  • 2020: Orlando
  • 2022: II
  • 2024: Another State

References

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  1. ^ Larkin, Cormac (3 October 2016). "Lauren Kinsella: 'Improvisation is the key to life'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  2. ^ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online. Retrieved 20 October 2016
  3. ^ Patterson, Ian (5 March 2013). "Lauren Kinsella: In Between Every Line". All About Jazz. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Lauren Kinsella wins £10,000 Jazz Composition Fellowship". M-Magazine.co.uk. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Lauren Kinsella – Principal Lecturer: Jazz". Leeds College of Music. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
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