Bill Laurance

MUSIC

Lumen

2025


Act Music

Digital, Vinyl & CD

Keeping Company

2024


Act Music

Digital, Vinyl & CD

Rhodes Mk8 Sessions

2024


Flint Music

Digital

Do What You Want

2024


Flint Music

Vinyl & CD

Bloom

2024


ACTMusic

HOPE EP

2024


FlintMusic

Where You Wish You Were

2023


ACTmusic

Affinity

2022


Flint Music

Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra Live at EFG London Jazz Festival 2021

2022


Flint Music

Zeal EP

2021


Flint Music

Cables Rewired EP

2021


Flint Music

Aftersun EP

2021


GroundUP

Live at Ronnie Scott's

2020


Flint Music

Cables

2019


Flint Music

Live at Union Chapel

2016


GroundUP / UMC

Aftersun

2016


GroundUP / UMC

Swift

2015


GroundUP

Flint

2014


GroundUP

Live at the Royal Albert Hall

2020


with Snarky Puppy

David Crosby: Remember My Name (Soundtrack)

2020


with Marcus Eaton

Live at the Philharmonie Cologne

2019


with WDR Big Band

Embossed

2019


with Snarky Puppy

Immigrance

2019


with Snarky Puppy

Here If You Listen

2018


with David Crosby

Sky Trails

2017


with David Crosby

Lighthouse

2016


with David Crosby

Culcha Vulcha

2016


with Snarky Puppy

Family Dinner – Volume 2

2016


with Snarky Puppy

Sylva

2015


with Snarky Puppy

Yerakina

2014


with Banda Magda

We Like It Here

2014


with Snarky Puppy

Family Dinner – Volume 1

2013


with Snarky Puppy

Amkeni

2013


with Snarky Puppy

groundUP

2012


with Snarky Puppy

Move

2010


with Eddie Roberts

Tell Your Friends

2010


with Snarky Puppy

Bring Us The Bright

2008


with Snarky Puppy

Trenta

2007


with Eddie Roberts

Roughneck (Live in Paris)

2006


with Eddie Roberts

The Only Constant

2006


with Snarky Puppy

ABOUT

Pianist, keyboardist and composer Bill Laurance’s music evokes a striking sense of time and place. As an original member of 5-time Grammy Award-winning group Snarky Puppy, Laurance has toured the world countless times, playing hundreds of concerts to tens of thousands of fans worldwide.

Attending the University of Leeds, he majored in classical composition, exploring jazz, funk and drum’n’bass in addition to classical music. Since then he has honed the melodic immediacy of this approach, along with his intense improvisational prowess, forging a distinctive personal style that embraces English classical, electronica and jazz-rock sensibilities, alongside gritty contemporary grooves.

In the early-noughties, a twenty-something Laurance was trying to make a living on the Leeds music scene, when an unremarkable but timely pick-up gig presented itself with a young Michael League in singer Michael Solomon Williams’ band. Gigs in the north of England forged a friendship with League, who happened to be looking for a new piano player, and League invited Laurance to the US to record the first Snarky Puppy album, The Only Constant, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Since then, Laurance has clocked up recordings and or performances with such renowned artists as David Crosby, Morcheeba, Salif Keita, Terence Blanchard, Susana Baca, Lalah Hathaway, Laura Mvula, Jacob Collier, Musiq Soul Child, Khalid Sansi, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Carlos Malta, The Metropole Orchestra and the WDR Big Band. He has also worked extensively in the dance world with companies including Alvin Ailey, Ballet Rambert, Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures, Phoenix Dance, Northern Ballet Theatre and the English National Ballet. He has also composed music for a variety of different clients including Apple, Sky, Nokia and Hewlett Packard.

He is a champion of cutting-edge keyboard developments and is endorsed by: Moog, Mellotron, Sequential, Korg, Nord, Roli Seaboard, Yamaha, Roland, Arp Odyssey, Keyscape, Sound Brenner, Native Instruments and MXR. Alongside Laurance’s touring as a solo artist and with Snarky Puppy, Laurance is the Artist in residence at Morley College London. He is is a passionate educator and continues to give clinics at music institutions all over the world.