Closing Concert: Bill Laurance Live
London Piano Festival
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.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
Kings Place Concessions Tickets
We want to ensure that people who may be struggling financially to purchase a ticket can still enjoy visiting Kings Place. A limited number of tickets are allocated for certain events (if the ticket type does not show in the booking pathway, it means they are not available for this event or have all been sold). Concessions tickets are accessible for people on the following criteria (for more information visit our FAQs)
- Pension Credit
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£10 ‘Under 30s’ tickets
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If £10 tickets are available, the ticket discount will apply automatically at checkout. If the discount does not apply, this means all ‘Under 30s’ tickets have sold out for the performance.
Please note that proof of age may be requested at the venue.
Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
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Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
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
