Louis Durra is an American pianist and composer living in Berlin, Germany.
Rocket Science—CD, (September 2012)
Head Radio Retransmissions -- (1 track on ESC Radiohead compilation CD) 2012 ESC Records
The Best Of All Possible Worlds—CD, 2012–7 weeks on CMJ Jazz Top 40 Radio Charts.
Mad World EP—CD, 2011
Tangled Up In Blue EP—CD, 2011
What We Have—CD, 2007
Caught! Louis Durra Trio Live And In The Studio—DVD, 2007
Dreaming—CD, 2003
(Other Projects)
2011—A Singer Named Shotgun Throat—Moris Tepper
2006-2011—piano for 9 documentaries, composer Miriam Cutler
2008—Chinese Leftovers— Sugarplum Fairies
2008—One Day— Logan Heftel
2007 -- "Play It Cool" Cast Album—Mark Winkler
2003—Introspective Raincoat Student Music—Sugarplum Fairies
2002—Flake—Sugarplum Fairies
2000—Moth to Mouth—Moris Tepper
1996—Big Enough to Disappear—Moris Tepper
Jazz Bar in Edinburgh, UK. 2012
Jazz Bar in Edinburgh, UK. 2011
South Beverly Grill, Beverly Hills, CA since 2010.
Bandera, Brentwood, CA since 2012.
Pianist for Richard Shelton 2011
Pianist for Taylor Negron and Lili Haydn 2007
Pianist for Steve Zee. 2009-2011
Music Director for "Play It Cool". Louis was nominated in 2006 for an Ovation Award and Los Angeles Drama Circle Award for Musical Direction, for the production of Play it Cool at the Celebration Theatre
Pianist for "Just In Time" in Russia, the Ukraine, Latvia and Khazakstan. 2003
Pianist for Jazz Tap Ensemble 1990-1996
keyboardist for Moris Tepper 1987-1993
Music Director/Pianist for "Woyzeck" (play) dir. John Wills Martin, Edinburgh 1988
Music Director/Pianist for "The Lesson" (play) dir. Peter Brosius, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles 1989. Louis was nominated for a 1990 Drama Logue award.
Music Director/Pianist for "Rio Esmeralda" (play) dir. Peter Brosius, LATC and Reykjavik, Iceland 1987
Louis edited sound with the Id Group, an audio post facility.