He has performed regularly with many leading period-instrument groups such as Les Arts Florissants, The Sixteen, The Gabrieli Consort, and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, broadcasting regularly on television and radio as well as touring extensively around the world. As a soloist, Laurence has recorded the harpsichord music of Louis Couperin and his volume of Francois Couperin was nominated as Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice. He studied Music at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Royal College of Music, and then with Jill Severs. He was appointed Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in 1996.

In 2001 Laurence conducted the first recording of Handel’s newly-discovered Gloria with Emma Kirkby and the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra. He has conducted Handel’s Rodelinda at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, Athalia and Esther at the London Handel Festival, and Bach with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Laurence is Musical Director of the London Handel Society and Tilford Bach Society and is a founding member of the London Handel Players.