Lauren Kinsella


Lauren Kinsella is an Irish jazz and improvisation music singer and composer.

Biography

Kinsella moved to London in 2010, where she earned her master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After singing in a duo with Sarah Buechi she started working on the British jazz scene with Laura Jurds Chaos Orchestra and in the band Thought-Fox, among others. In 2012 she co-produced All This Talk About with Alex Huber. She also played in duo with saxophonist Tom Challenger and in the sextet Abhra led by the French saxophonist Julien Pontivanne. 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 and in the theater project t The Last Siren. Currently 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. Kinsella teaches jazz at Leeds College of Music.

Discography

; With Thought-Fox
; With Blue-Eyed Hawk
; With Snowpoet
; With Julien Pontvianne, Francesco Diodati, Hannah Marshall, Alexandre Herer, and Matteo Bortone