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Artist
Lauri Porra
12+ albums
Fusionjazzbassfinnishexperimental
about
Lauri Porra is a Finnish composer, performer, and curator known for his genre-defying musical language and visionary large-scale works. Porra started to study music at age six when he started to play cello in a local music school. In 1993, he switched to bass guitar and continued his studies in the Helsinki Pop Jazz Conservatory (1994–2004). He has also taken lessons in piano, double bass, trumpet and male vocals. From 1997 to 1999, he was a member of the YL male choir, performing for instance with the London Symphony Orchestra. Porra’s compositions draw on his classical training and his extensive experience in popular and contemporary music, blending structural depth with the raw energy of rock and the lyricism of orchestral writing. His works have been performed by leading ensembles such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra. In 2024, his large-scale work BASSO — written for 150 bass voices — premiered at Helsinki Festival for an audience of 26,000 at Helsinki Senate Square. He has scored numerous films, TV series, and other audiovisual works. Porra’s film score for Myrskyluodon Maija (2024) earned him the Jussi Award for Best Film Music in 2025. Other major recent projects include Matter and Time, a multidisciplinary collaboration featuring astrophysicist Esko Valtaoja and actor Stephen Fry, and Seasons in Moominvalley, released by Sony Classical in summer 2025. His commissioned work Ääniä –
