John Turville has been described as “One of the leading jazz pianists in the UK” (The Jazz Mann) and his music as “World-class, exquisite and constantly inventive” (Jazz Journal), and as “Mining as deep a seam of musical ideas as Brad Mehldau” (The Guardian).  He has recorded three albums as a leader, the most recent Head First released on Whirlwind Recordings, featuring the world-renowned Julian Argüelles on tenor and soprano sax.  Turville has won multiple awards for his two trio albums including MOJO’s #3 Jazz Album of the Year (2012) and Best Album in the Parliamentary Awards 2011.  He was also a joint winner of the 2009 PRS Promoter’s Choice Award and was awarded Best Instrumentalist in the 2010 London Jazz Awards as well as reaching the semi-finals in the Martial Solal Jazz Piano Concours in Paris the same year.

John is an in-demand sideman, and has toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia. He has recorded over 30 albums with many jazz and tango groups, including with Tim Garland’s Acoustic Triangle and Lighthouse Trio, Thomas Gould, The Yuri Goloubev Trio, The Tony Kofi/Alan Barnes Quintet, Karios 4tet, Asaf Sirkis Trio, Gilad Atzmon, Transtango, The London Tango Orchestra, El Ultimo Tango, The Matt Ridley Quartet, Sabina Racheyeva, Andre Canniere, Maciek Pysz, Krzysztof Urbanski and Natacha Atlas.

John co-runs the E17 jazz collective and curates their programme and festival, as well as conducting and composing for the 13-piece E17 Large Ensemble, is tango quintet Almagro Ensemble and his sextet Solstice featuring Brigitte Beraha and Tori Freestone.

Turville is an experienced composer and arranger for strings, voices, jazz and tango ensembles. He has been commissioned by a range of diverse ensembles, including the Solstice String Quartet, ‘Living Room In London’, the choir Chantage, and recently by The Crossing Boundaries Festival for a major new work for tango quintet and dancers, premiered in October. He is also the principal jazz piano tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the Yehudi Menuhin and Purcell Schools, and has coached ensembles and led workshops at the Guildhall and the Royal Academy of Music in London. John has taught and performed at summer schools in Saarwellingen (Germany), the Concertato Masterclass (Capri, Italy) and the Dartington International Summer School, Devon. He is also the external adjudicator in jazz piano at Trinity Laban.