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Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer whose work explores the boundaries between musical genres, creating multilayered, dense sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was described as a "fully committed saxophonist and visionary" by The New Yorker. Her composition Vogelfrei was named one of The New York Times' 25 Best Classical Tracks of 2018.
Laubrock has collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid, Myra Melford, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Wet Ink, and many others. She has received commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bang on a Can, the Grossman Ensemble, the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, the Jerwood Foundation, the American Composers Orchestra, SWR New Jazz Meeting, The Jazz Gallery Commissioning Series, New York State Council on the Arts, Wet Ink, John Zorn's Stone Commissioning Series, Donaueschinger Musiktage, and the EOS Orchestra.
Laubrock's numerous awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2026); the German Jazz Prize in the Woodwinds category (2025); DownBeat Critics Poll wins for Rising Star Composer (2025), Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018), and Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015); the German Record Critics' Quarterly Award (2014); the SWR German Radio Jazz Prize (2009); an Arts Foundation Fellowship in Jazz Composition (2006); and the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation (2004).
She is a part-time faculty member at The New School and Columbia University.
Pianist Kris Davis, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey are all award-winning musicians, acclaimed composers, and formidable figures in experimental jazz. Together, they form a trio of striking cohesion and depth—where, as JazzTimes observes, “lines and musical sympathies converge beautifully.”
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