Ingrid Jensen, The Colin Byrne Jazz Orchestra

Born in Vancouver Ingrid held the professor of Jazz Trumpet chair at the Bruckner Conservatory of Music in Austria before moving to New York at the beginning of the millennium.

In 2003 she was nominated, for the second time, alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas for a Jazz Journalist Association Award in New York and is seen yearly in the top five of the Downbeat Critic Polls.

The Colin Byrne Jazz Orchestra produces and plays exclusively original jazz music using talented musicians from the north of England.