ABOUT

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Multi-instrumentalist and native Austinite, Lauryn Gould enjoys a vibrant career as a performer, educator, composer/arranger, and community music facilitator/instigator. She makes music in a wide variety of contexts, both locally and internationally, and has had the great privilege of collaborating with many of the bright lights in the central Texas community. 

LG’s unique approach to music is greatly informed by a blend of formal and non-formal education and experience, as well as a deep curiosity and desire to constantly broaden one’s soundscape. In terms of formal education, Lauryn earned a BM in Flute Performance from Texas State University (2010), an MA in Community Music from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, Ireland (2015), and an MM in Jazz Saxophone Performance at Texas State University (2020). However, the generous mentorship she has received, first from her father, then from a wealth of exceptional musicianers in the community, has been equally important to her education.

She has performed with Jon Batiste, Spoon, and The Eastern Sea at the Austin City Limits Music Festival , with Black Pumas on The Late Late Show with James Corden and at Stubb’s in Austin, and with Asleep at the Wheel at the Mercer Dance Hal. Other notable performances include International swing dance events such as Lindyfest, Hot Rhythm Holiday, The Nevermore Jazz Ball, Jammin’ on the James, Classic City Swing, Austin Lindy Exchange, and Balast Off , The Doonbeg Jazz Festival in Ireland, and Blues on the Green, the Ian Clarke masterclass at the Texas Flute Festival, and the National Flute Association conventions where she also premiered an original composition for flute choir based on the works of jazz great, Sidney Bechet. 

LG has composed music for such organizations as Rooster Teeth, Texas Moaners, Cats & the Canary, The Good Hearts Postcard Club, and Catastrophe Theory Arts, and arranged music for Thrift Set Orchestra Deluxe, Golden Hour Orchestra & Heptet, The Brooks Prumo Orchestra, Rock Step Relevators, and Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five Plus One, Dandy Wellington among others. In addition, she served as founding artistic director of “alt-classical” consortium, The Sound Bridge Project, presenting classical music in non-traditional spaces and formats. From 2011-2016, she served as an organizer for the Hot Rhythm Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of Austin’s early jazz and swing dance community. LG also developed and implemented the curriculum for the jazz education portion of Hot Rhythm Holiday, a weekend swing dance and music workshop intensive. In 2024, LG was an organizer for the inaugural “Hot Town Hot Music Showcase,” which featured 9 bands/78RPM DJs performing all day in the historic Doris Miller Auditorium in East Austin. In addition, she has provided music mentoring for at-risk youth through Anthropos Arts and is on the board for community brass band project, Blowcomotion. She is presently on faculty at the Austin Chamber Music Center and provides private lessons at her home studio in South Austin and online. LG is also very active with music advocacy in Austin and was appointed by Councilwoman Fuentes to serve on the Austin Music Commission representing District 2 in spring 2021.
 

Currently, LG can be found performing regularly with Floyd Domino's All Stars, Texas Moaners, The Relevators, Golden Hour Heptet, Golden Hour Orchestra, The Joymakers, The Charlie Christians, Thrift Set Orchestra Deluxe, Dandy Wellington, Big Britches, Wes Haynes Band, Moon Tower Brass Band, Bat City Brass Band, Tricky Jones & the Love Thunder, The Lost Airwaves, The Lovely Sparrows, and as a studio artist, freelance flutist, saxophonist, and vocalist. 

Through her work, LG strives to bring about experiences of connection and collective effervescence — allowing music to be a means to remind us of our humanity and how it feels to be truly alive.