{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Laura Jurd | image = Laura Jurd Cardiff 2016.jpg | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|22|2013|9|12}}<ref name="a202">{{cite news| last=Fordham | first=John | title=Jazz trumpeter Laura Jurd: 'I just like making things up' | work=The Guardian | date=12 September 2013 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/12/jazz-trumpeter-laura-jurd-improvising | access-date=23 June 2025}}</ref> | birth_place = Medstead, Hampshire, UK<ref name="a202"/> | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician, composer, bandleader, conservatoire lecturer | instrument = Trumpet, synthesizer | years_active = | label = Edition, Discus Music, Spartacus Records, Chaos Collective, New Soil | associated_acts = Blue-Eyed Hawk, Dinosaur, Elliot Galvin Trio, Corrie Dick, National Youth Jazz Orchestra | website = {{URL|laurajurd.com}} }}
'''Laura Jurd''' (born 1990 or 1991) is a British musician and composer. She plays trumpet and synthesizer. She has released albums as a solo artist, and she composes for and plays in a jazz quartet named Dinosaur, whose album ''Together, As One'' was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/mercury-music-prize-shortlist-2116701 |title=Mercury Music Prize 2017: what you need to know about the nominees |first=Mark|last= Beaumont|date=27 July 2017|work=NME }}</ref>
Jurd teaches composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.<ref name="ljsite">{{cite web|url=https://laurajurd.com/about/|title=Laura Jurd Biography|website=Laura Jurd |accessdate=2017-07-28}}</ref>
==Early years and education==
Jurd grew up in Medstead, Hampshire.<ref name="a202"/> She attended the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.<ref name="a202"/>
==Awards and honours== Jurd is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists.<ref name="jazznow">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081tb1g|title=Jazz Now, Laura Jurd and Dinosaur |website=BBC |date=2016-11-07 |access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref> She won in category ''Instrumentalist of the Year'' in the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Awards,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/breaking-news/13498-norma-winstone-laura-jurd-and-partisans-among-parliamentary-jazz-awards-winners | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728205815/http://www.britishcomposerawards.com/composer_profiles.php?idc=735&y=2012&u=12&idz=713&w=0 |archive-date=2017-07-28|url-status=dead |title=This year's Parliamentary Jazz Awards |work=Jazzwise |date=10 March 2015|accessdate=5 June 2015}}</ref> the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wcom.org.uk/awards/dankworth-prize-for-jazz-composition/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728223505/http://www.wcom.org.uk/awards/dankworth-prize-for-jazz-composition/|archive-date=2017-07-28 |url-status=live |title=Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition |publisher=The Worshipful Company of Musicians|date=|accessdate=2017-07-28}}</ref> and the Young Jazz Musician award in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wcom.org.uk/awards/jazz-young-musician/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728223118/http://www.wcom.org.uk/awards/jazz-young-musician/|archive-date=2017-07-28|url-status=live |title=Young Jazz Musician|publisher=The Worshipful Company of Musicians |accessdate=2017-07-28}}</ref> She was shortlisted for a BASCA Contemporary Jazz Composer award in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomposerawards.com/composer_profiles.php?idc=735&y=2012&u=12&idz=713&w=0|title=Composer Profile - Laura Jurd|website=British Composer Awards 2012|accessdate=2017-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728205815/http://www.britishcomposerawards.com/composer_profiles.php?idc=735&y=2012&u=12&idz=713&w=0|archive-date=2017-07-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Landing Ground'' (2012) * ''Human Spirit'' (2015) * ''Together, As One'' with Dinosaur (2016) * ''Wonder Trail'' with Dinosaur (2018) * ''Stepping Back, Jumping In'' (2019) * ''To The Earth'' with Dinosaur (2020) * ''The Big Friendly Album'' (2022) * ''Rites & Revelations'' (New Soil, 2025)<ref name="jazzwise">{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Selwyn |date=November 11, 2025 |title=Review Laura Jurd: Rites & Revelations, New Soil |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/editor-s-choice-november-2025-the-best-new-jazz-recordings |access-date=November 14, 2025 |website=Jazzwise}}</ref><ref>https://laurajurd.bandcamp.com/album/rites-revelations-3</ref>
==External links== * {{Discogs artist}} * {{Bandcamp}} * {{Allmusic}} * {{MusicBrainz}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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