Alexandra Ridout

Alexandra Ridout is an English trumpeter and flugelhornist based in New York, where she leads her own groups and works across the city's big bands and small ensembles. She came to wide attention in 2016 by winning the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award, and followed it with the British Jazz Awards Rising Star prize in 2018 and recognition by the Evening Standard in 2019 as one of London's most influential people under 25. She received the Laurie Frink Career Grant in 2022, and in 2023 took Best Soloist at the Keep an Eye International Jazz Award and placed second at the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition. Her playing has taken her into Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, Renee Rosnes' Artemis and Dayna Stephens' Custom Deluxe, alongside her own quintet and the family band The Ridouts with her brother Tom on saxophone. Born in 1998 in Aylesbury, she trained at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music's junior jazz course before moving to the United States.