The Alexandra Ridout Quartet

Award-winning UK-born, US-based trumpeter Alexandra Ridout brings her NYC quartet to Kings Place, featuring some of the most exciting young musicians on the city’s contemporary jazz scene. United by a shared commitment to original music and creative collaboration, the quartet offers a snapshot of New York’s vibrant jazz community today.

Now based in Harlem, Alexandra Ridout has established herself as a distinctive voice within New York’s contemporary jazz community. Her career was catapulted into the international spotlight when, aged 17, she won the prestigious BBC Young Jazz Musician award in 2016.

Alongside her own projects, Alexandra is regularly called upon to tour and record with leading artists including Grammy Award-winning vocalist Samara Joy, Artemis, the Mingus Big Band, Dave Douglas, Melissa Aldana, Miguel Zenón, Arturo O’Farrill, Toninho Horta, Dayna Stephens, Christine Jensen, Kit Downes, Or Bareket and Jochen Rueckert. For this quartet, Alexandra is joined by pianist Yvonne Rogers, bassist Simón Willson and drummer David Sirkis, three rising voices within New York’s contemporary jazz scene, whose credits include work with Bill Frisell, Sullivan Fortner, Linda May Han Oh, Joel Ross and Walter Smith III.

A multi-award winner, Alexandra’s accolades include the Keep an Eye International Jazz Award for Best Soloist (2023) and the 2025 Next Jazz Legacy Award through New Music USA. This special performance brings her NYC quartet to London to celebrate the musicians and creative community at the heart of her life in New York.

Yvonne Rogers

Yvonne Rogers is a pianist, composer and improviser from coastal Maine, now based in Brooklyn, New York. A 2024 Next Jazz Legacy Awardee and 2024 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award recipient, she is an active member of New York’s contemporary jazz scene, performing with artists including Ingrid Laubrock, Adam O’Farrill, Linda May Han Oh, Ralph Alessi and Sara Serpa. Rogers was also a member of the 2021/22 Focusyear Band in Basel, performing alongside Kris Davis, Sullivan Fortner, Miguel Zenón, Larry Grenadier and Jorge Rossy. Her debut album, Seeds, was released on Relative Pitch Records in 2023.

Simón Willson

Chilean-born, New York City-based bassist, composer and improviser Simón Willson is an in-demand presence on the contemporary jazz scene. He has worked and toured internationally with leading artists including Dave Douglas, Ethan Iverson, Jason Palmer, Jonathan Kreisberg and Frank Carlberg, as well as with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Willson co-leads the ensembles Family Plan and Earprint, whose debut album won the 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll for Best Debut Album. In 2023, he performed with Vicente Atria’s septet Orlando Furioso, which won the Deutscher Jazz Preis for Best International New Artist. He has appeared on more than 35 recordings.

David Sirk