As long as there are creative young talents like pianist Laura Dubin keeping the jazz flame going, there is hope for the future."
-Jack Goodstein, Blogcritics
For the outstanding pianist/composer Laura Dubin, the serious pursuit of jazz expression began at the age of 12 in her native Rochester, NY. In 2007 she embarked on a 7-year journey of study and performing that brought her to various points in the U.S. and Latin America; and now Laura’s path has come full circle to her hometown.
With her husband and musical partner, drummer Antonio H. Guerrero – who she met during her 2011-2012 stint with a jazz trio on Holland America Line cruise ships touring Europe, French Polynesia and the Caribbean; and with whom she performed in clubs, major venues and festivals while they were living in Mexico City from 2013-2014 – Laura returned to Rochester in 2014, quickly becoming a thriving member of its cultural scene both as a performer and educator. Now, in 2025, Laura and Antonio are among the most sought-after jazz musicians in the region (both as a duo and as members of the Laura Dubin Trio), consistently delighting and wowing audiences of all ages with their unique and highly personal style of music.
After establishing themselves in Rochester in 2014 and quickly gaining acclaim as a popular ensemble, the Laura Dubin Trio reached a new plateau with a triumphant featured performance at the prestigious Rochester International Jazz Festival in 2016. They went on to perform at the festival again in 2017, 2019, 2023, and 2025. The 2016 performance was recorded and then released as an album later that year. Following her two previous albums – 2013’s Introducing the Laura Dubin Trio, and Laura Dubin Plays the Great American Songbook in 2015 – Laura Dubin Trio Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is undeniable evidence of the development of a highly promising young musician into a mature and powerful new presence on the contemporary jazz scene. Where her debut album included ten original compositions and the second featured her original arrangements of ten classic songs by Gershwin, Porter, Berlin and other legends of song, the live album combines her outstanding composing and superb arranging skills to reveal an artist of depth, command and originality – further expressed through her own unique take on the “mashup” concept.
The trio’s 2025 performance at the festival was also recorded and has recently been released as an album, Laura Dubin Trio Live at the Rochester International Jazz Festival 2025. Almost a decade after the release of the previous live recording, the 2025 album captures the trio’s vitality, creativity and joy more than ever before, including gems ranging from swinging renditions of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz” to an amalgamation dubbed “Revolutionary Rhumba” (Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude merged with Chick Corea’s “Armando’s Rhumba”), to tributes to Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, and more — along with several of Laura’s most recent compositions (inspired by three cities she holds dear: Paris, France; Vienna, Austria; and Kalamazoo, Michigan).
A virtuoso pianist extensively trained in both the classical and jazz traditions, and well-versed in Latin and film music, Laura melds all of her musical loves into a seamless web of breathtaking creativity and adventurous exploration throughout the live albums, providing a vivid example of her in-person performance concept. Mozart steeped in the history of jazz piano; Beethoven welded with Songbook gems; Ellington with Chopin; Debussy with Gershwin; Ravel with Rodgers & Hammerstein tinged with Latin; Cole Porter with Bill Evans – all reinvented, re-imagined and forged into very personal statements placed alongside her own singular compositions.
As of 2025, Laura and Antonio have released 12 self-produced albums: Live at the Rochester International Jazz Festival 2025 (2025), Laura Dubin Trio in Vienna (2024), Baroque and Blue: The Music of Claude Bolling (2023), Dear Marian: The Music of Marian McPartland (2023), Pieces of Paris (2020), Christmas with the Laura Dubin Trio (2019), Laura Dubin Trio Plays West Side Story (2019), Classical Jazz (2019), Rhapsody (2018), Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (2016), Laura Dubin Plays the Great American Songbook (2015), and Introducing the Laura Dubin Trio (2013). All albums are available for purchase directly from this website (see Music/Store page), in both the digital download and CD format; you can also find them on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and all other streaming platforms.
While fully committed to performing and composing – with more than 50 compositions in her book to date, citing Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Fred Hersch (with whom she has had a mentoring relationship since high school and up to the present), Bill Evans, Marian McPartland, Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner, McCoy Tyner, and Chick Corea among her deepest influences – Laura is also dedicated to teaching both in the institutional format through workshops and master classes from the elementary to the collegiate level, along with teaching privately. She is currently teaching online lessons through her studio, Laura's Virtual Lessons. Although her private students range in age from pre-schoolers to octogenarians, she has a special passion for helping to mold young minds in both the appreciation and the act of artistic expression.
Laura maintains a consistently active schedule of live performances in the Rochester area (including public performances, which are listed on the Gigs page of this site, as well as private concerts and events). In addition to performing frequently at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, several performances in Europe have been career highlights as well, including jazz clubs in Paris, Vienna and Munich.
In March of 2020 when the pandemic began, Laura and Antonio launched their own Virtual Jazz Club, live-streaming concerts from their home studio via YouTube and Facebook every night for over two years. These concerts not only kept the musicians connected with their fans during a time when venues were closed, but they also reached new audiences all over the world and brought joy to many people during a difficult time in history. Although Laura and Antonio are now performing at live music venues once again, all of their Virtual Jazz Club livestreams are still available to watch on YouTube.
With her husband and musical partner, drummer Antonio H. Guerrero – who she met during her 2011-2012 stint with a jazz trio on Holland America Line cruise ships touring Europe, French Polynesia and the Caribbean; and with whom she performed in clubs, major venues and festivals while they were living in Mexico City from 2013-2014 – Laura returned to Rochester in 2014, quickly becoming a thriving member of its cultural scene both as a performer and educator. Now, in 2025, Laura and Antonio are among the most sought-after jazz musicians in the region (both as a duo and as members of the Laura Dubin Trio), consistently delighting and wowing audiences of all ages with their unique and highly personal style of music.
After establishing themselves in Rochester in 2014 and quickly gaining acclaim as a popular ensemble, the Laura Dubin Trio reached a new plateau with a triumphant featured performance at the prestigious Rochester International Jazz Festival in 2016. They went on to perform at the festival again in 2017, 2019, 2023, and 2025. The 2016 performance was recorded and then released as an album later that year. Following her two previous albums – 2013’s Introducing the Laura Dubin Trio, and Laura Dubin Plays the Great American Songbook in 2015 – Laura Dubin Trio Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is undeniable evidence of the development of a highly promising young musician into a mature and powerful new presence on the contemporary jazz scene. Where her debut album included ten original compositions and the second featured her original arrangements of ten classic songs by Gershwin, Porter, Berlin and other legends of song, the live album combines her outstanding composing and superb arranging skills to reveal an artist of depth, command and originality – further expressed through her own unique take on the “mashup” concept.
The trio’s 2025 performance at the festival was also recorded and has recently been released as an album, Laura Dubin Trio Live at the Rochester International Jazz Festival 2025. Almost a decade after the release of the previous live recording, the 2025 album captures the trio’s vitality, creativity and joy more than ever before, including gems ranging from swinging renditions of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz” to an amalgamation dubbed “Revolutionary Rhumba” (Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude merged with Chick Corea’s “Armando’s Rhumba”), to tributes to Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, and more — along with several of Laura’s most recent compositions (inspired by three cities she holds dear: Paris, France; Vienna, Austria; and Kalamazoo, Michigan).
A virtuoso pianist extensively trained in both the classical and jazz traditions, and well-versed in Latin and film music, Laura melds all of her musical loves into a seamless web of breathtaking creativity and adventurous exploration throughout the live albums, providing a vivid example of her in-person performance concept. Mozart steeped in the history of jazz piano; Beethoven welded with Songbook gems; Ellington with Chopin; Debussy with Gershwin; Ravel with Rodgers & Hammerstein tinged with Latin; Cole Porter with Bill Evans – all reinvented, re-imagined and forged into very personal statements placed alongside her own singular compositions.
As of 2025, Laura and Antonio have released 12 self-produced albums: Live at the Rochester International Jazz Festival 2025 (2025), Laura Dubin Trio in Vienna (2024), Baroque and Blue: The Music of Claude Bolling (2023), Dear Marian: The Music of Marian McPartland (2023), Pieces of Paris (2020), Christmas with the Laura Dubin Trio (2019), Laura Dubin Trio Plays West Side Story (2019), Classical Jazz (2019), Rhapsody (2018), Live at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (2016), Laura Dubin Plays the Great American Songbook (2015), and Introducing the Laura Dubin Trio (2013). All albums are available for purchase directly from this website (see Music/Store page), in both the digital download and CD format; you can also find them on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and all other streaming platforms.
While fully committed to performing and composing – with more than 50 compositions in her book to date, citing Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Fred Hersch (with whom she has had a mentoring relationship since high school and up to the present), Bill Evans, Marian McPartland, Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner, McCoy Tyner, and Chick Corea among her deepest influences – Laura is also dedicated to teaching both in the institutional format through workshops and master classes from the elementary to the collegiate level, along with teaching privately. She is currently teaching online lessons through her studio, Laura's Virtual Lessons. Although her private students range in age from pre-schoolers to octogenarians, she has a special passion for helping to mold young minds in both the appreciation and the act of artistic expression.
Laura maintains a consistently active schedule of live performances in the Rochester area (including public performances, which are listed on the Gigs page of this site, as well as private concerts and events). In addition to performing frequently at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, several performances in Europe have been career highlights as well, including jazz clubs in Paris, Vienna and Munich.
In March of 2020 when the pandemic began, Laura and Antonio launched their own Virtual Jazz Club, live-streaming concerts from their home studio via YouTube and Facebook every night for over two years. These concerts not only kept the musicians connected with their fans during a time when venues were closed, but they also reached new audiences all over the world and brought joy to many people during a difficult time in history. Although Laura and Antonio are now performing at live music venues once again, all of their Virtual Jazz Club livestreams are still available to watch on YouTube.
The musicmaking is of highly serious quality, but the mood is pure exhilaration and joy."
-Rick Anderson, CD HotList