Collection: Elliot Galvin

Born in 1991, Elliot Galvin is a London-based British jazz pianist, composer, and collaborator. He plays piano, synthesizer, kalimba, microtonal melodica, accordion, stylophone, and Rhodes. From deconstructing standards to creating his own microtonal melodica, his music is both playful and deadly serious, drawing on a wide range of influences from Keith Jarrett to Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti, Deerhoof, and the Beatles, as well as the films of David Lynch, the Dada movement, and the literature of James Joyce. Galvin studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance alongside trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd and helped found the Chaos Collective of young musicians, the majority of them Trinity graduates. His main artistic vehicle is the Elliot Galvin Trio. In 2014 the trio won the European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award in Germany. In 2015 they were nominated for the Parliamentary Jazz Awards Newcomer of the Year.

Galvin released his debut album Dreamland in 2013 on Chaos Collective to rave reviews. In 2016 he released Punch on Edition Records with Simon Roth on drums. In 2017 he released Weather, a free improvisation duo with drummer Mark Sanders on Babel Label. In 2018 he released The Influencing Machine on Edition Records, inspired by the book of the same name about 18th century figure James Tilly Matthews. In 2019 Galvin released Modern Times on Edition Records. In 2020 he released Live in Paris, at Fondation Louis Vuitton on Edition Records, an entirely improvised solo piano recital. In February 2025 he released The Ruin on Gearbox Records, his most personal album to date. Named after a ninth century Anglo-Saxon poem about the former glory of an unnamed ruined city, it was inspired by living in England, the bleak landscape of where he grew up, and a kind of self-portrait reflecting how we all live amongst the ruins of our past selves both collectively and individually. The album featured Ruth Goller on bass and voice, Sebastian Rochford on drums, the Ligeti Quartet, and Shabaka Hutchings on flutes. He is a key member of Mercury-nominated Dinosaur led by Laura Jurd and a member of Shabaka's European touring band. He collaborates with Emma-Jean Thackray, Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset, and others.