Ingrid Laubrock soprano and tenor saxophone

Ingrid Laubrock – Saxophones / Composition

Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer whose work explores the boundaries between musical genres, creating multilayered, and dense sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was described as a “true visionary” by pianist and Kennedy Center artistic director Jason Moran and 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.

She 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, BBC Symphony Glasgow, Wet Ink and many others.

Laubrock’s numerous awards and honors include a Guggenmheim Fellowhip (2026); The German Jazz Prize in the Woodwinds category (2025); Winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Composer (2025), Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Soprano Saxophone (2015); The German Record Critics’ Quarterly Award (2014); SWR German Radio Jazz Prize (2009), an Arts Foundation Fellowship in Jazz Composition (2006); and the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation (2004).

Laubrock 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, NYSCA, Wet Ink, John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series, Donaueschinger Musiktage and the EOS Orchestra.

She is a part-time faculty member at The New School and Columbia University