Bill Laurance

Born in London in 1981 and trained between piano practice, classical composition and jazz, Bill Laurance has since the mid-2000s developed a career at the crossroads of contemporary jazz, fusion, orchestral writing and electronic music. His name first circulated widely with Snarky Puppy, the collective led by Michael League which he joined before the recording of The Only Constant in 2006, within which his keyboard playing contributes to an aesthetic blending groove, improvisation and dense arrangements. In parallel, Bill Laurance has built a solo discography that places more emphasis on harmonic color, textures and composition work, from Flint (2014) to Swift (2015), Aftersun (2016), Live at Union Chapel (2016), Cables (2019) and Affinity (2022). His projects navigate between acoustic piano, electronic textures, group formats and orchestral contexts, such as the album Live at the Philharmonie, Cologne (2019) with the WDR Big Band. Bill Laurance has also collaborated with David Crosby, Michael League and The Untold Orchestra, and composed for film, notably for Un Traductor and David Crosby: Remember My Name. On stage as in the studio, Bill Laurance makes precise writing coexist with melodic sense and a taste for open forms.