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 RecordsThe Best Of All Possible Worlds—CD, 2012–7 weeks on CMJ Jazz Top 40 Radio Charts.Mad World EP—CD, 2011Tangled Up In Blue EP—CD, 2011What We Have—CD, 2007Caught! Louis Durra Trio Live And In The Studio—DVD, 2007Dreaming—CD, 2003(Other Projects)
2011—A Singer Named Shotgun Throat—Moris Tepper 2006-2011—piano for 9 documentaries, composer Miriam Cutler2008—Chinese Leftovers— Sugarplum Fairies 2008—One Day— Logan Heftel2007 -- "Play It Cool" Cast Album—Mark Winkler2003—Introspective Raincoat Student Music—Sugarplum Fairies2002—Flake—Sugarplum Fairies2000—Moth to Mouth—Moris Tepper1996—Big Enough to Disappear—Moris TepperJazz Bar in Edinburgh, UK. 2012Jazz Bar in Edinburgh, UK. 2011South Beverly Grill, Beverly Hills, CA since 2010.Bandera, Brentwood, CA since 2012.Pianist for Richard Shelton 2011Pianist for Taylor Negron and Lili Haydn 2007Pianist for Steve Zee. 2009-2011Music 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 TheatrePianist for "Just In Time" in Russia, the Ukraine, Latvia and Khazakstan. 2003Pianist for Jazz Tap Ensemble 1990-1996keyboardist for Moris Tepper 1987-1993Music Director/Pianist for "Woyzeck" (play) dir. John Wills Martin, Edinburgh 1988Music 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 1987Louis edited sound with the Id Group, an audio post facility.
