Closing Concert: Bill Laurance Live

The London Piano Festival 2026 closes with a solo performance from Bill Laurance, a pianist and composer whose work moves freely between jazz, classical and contemporary music.

Best known as a founding member of Snarky Puppy, with whom he has won multiple Grammy Awards, Laurance has also built a significant solo career centred on the piano. Classically trained and London‑born, his solo performances are shaped by a strong sense of structure, space and improvisation.

Drawing on material from across his solo recordings, this closing concert offers a focused and personal end to the festival, placing the piano, and the performer, at the centre of attention.

This event will last for approximately 90 minutes with no interval.

About Bill Laurance

Classically trained composer, sought-after collaborator, and 5-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, Bill Laurance has built a career uniquely blending genres of music that seem to be at stylistic polar opposites. Originally trained as a classical pianist, Laurance has been demonstrating his unique creativity and improvisation for many years as a founding member of Snarky Puppy.

His diverse work includes advertising compositions for Apple, film soundtracks such as Un Traductor (2018), and collaborations with renowned ensembles including the WDR Big Band and the Metropole Orkest. Most recently, he released the highly acclaimed album Where You Wish You Were (ACT Music) together with Michael League. His latest release Affinity is a tribute to the jazz pianist Bill Evans and shows Laurance’s striving for individual interpretations, whereby the piano remains the unifying constant in his versatile work.

‘A Jazz Maestro’ The Guardian