Bill Laurance

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06.12.24

Bill Laurance & Guildhall Studio Ensemble

Milton Court Concert Hall - London, UK

19.01.25

Bill Laurance

DAZZ Festival Centralstation - Darmstadt, Germany

22.02.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Auditorio Nacional de Música - Madrid, Spain

02.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

St George's - Bristol, UK

03.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Union Chapel - London, UK

04.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Royal Northern College of Music - Manchester, UK

06.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Jazzfrühling Kassel Festival - Kassel, Germany

07.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Philharmonie Berlin Kammermusiksaal - Berlin, Germany

09.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Bergson - Munich, Germany

11.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Parkstad Limburg Theaters - Heerlen, Netherlands

12.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Concertgebouw - Amsterdam, Netherlands

14.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Kulturzentrum Pavillon - Hannover, Germany

15.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Elbphilharmonie - Hamburg, Germany

16.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Triebhaus - Innsbruck, Austria

17.03.25

Bill Laurance & Michael League

Studio Foce - Lugano, Switzerland

15.05.25

Bill Laurance Trio

De Doelen - Rotterdam, Netherlands

 BILL LAURANCE

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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.

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“Bill Laurance … one of the best piano players I’ve ever met in my life.”

— David Crosby

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 Artwork directly inspired by the artist Michael Kidner, with kind permission of The Estate and Flowers Gallery, London

Cables video (Home page) shot and edited by Summit Visions at
the London Piano Studio

Photography on Home, About, Music, and Video pages by Matthew Lloyd

Photography on Film Music page by Sam Howson

Photography on Education page by Jarl Everaart

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