Lauren Kinsella Quintet

About this event

Lauren Kinsella is an Irish vocalist and composer based in London. Awarded UK Vocalist of the year at the JazzFM Awards (2016), she is known as one of London cities most adventurous artists performing throughout the UK and Europe as a soloist, a bandleader, and within several cross-arts projects.

She sings and composes in many outfits including her own ensemble and Snowpoet with multi-instrumentalist Chris Hyson. She is a passionate educator and holds a senior lecturing post at Leeds Conservatoire. Lauren Kinsella is supported by PRS for Music Foundation.

She is the featured vocalist in several recent projects including French saxophonist Julian Pontvianne's 'Abhra', Turkish composer Onur Turkmenn's 'Sailing to Byzantium', Irish composer Ian Wilson's 'I Burn for You' and 'The Last Siren' and Laura Jurd's 'Human Spirit'. Kinsella also performs in Monster Music Improv; a musical and visual theatre show for children presented by The Ark and IMC.

In the past she has been awarded the Young Musicwide Performance Award (2010), the Kenny Wheeler Prize (2013), the THSH Birmingham Jazzlines Fellowship (2015) and she was a participant on the Take 5 10th Edition with Serious. She has received commissions from BBC Radio 3 and from Marsden Jazz Festival.

Kinsella's performance and music are reviewed worldwide and she regularly features on several radio stations including BBC Radio 3 and Radio 6, RTE Lyric FM, Jazz FM, BBC Radio Scotland, Le Bande Passante, Sverigesradio and ORF Radio. To date, she has released critically acclaimed albums on Edition Records, WideEarRecords, Diatribe and Two Rivers Records.

Born in Dublin, she completed her masters at the Royal Academy of Music, London.