Ingrid Laubrock
Music/Composition
Brooklyn, NY
Ingrid Laubrock is a saxophonist/composer based in Brooklyn since 2009. Laubrock is interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multilayered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. Her main projects as a leader are Anti-House, Ubatuba, and Serpentines.
Laubrock has performed with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jason Moran, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Mary Halvorson, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne, Dave Douglas and many others. She is a prolific composer who has written for ensembles ranging from duo to chamber orchestra. Awards include Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize and the 2014 German Record Critics Quarterly Award. She won best Rising Star Soprano saxophonist in the `Downbeat Annual Critics Poll in 2015 and best Tenor saxophonist in 2018. Laubrock is one of the recipients of the 2019 Herb Alpert Ragdale Prize in Music Composition and has received composing commissions by: The Shifting Foundation, John Zorn`s Commissioning Series, The Jerwood Foundation, American Composers Orchestra, Tricentric Foundation, SWR New Jazz Meeting, EOS Orchestra and The Jazz Gallery Commissioning; ; Series.