Lawrence Folvig is an Australian born Guitarist, Bassist and Composer currently based in Melbourne Australia.

Playing Guitar from the age of 12, Lawrence's passion for music making led him to The Victorian College of the Arts to complete a Bachelor of Music, specialising in improvisation where he garnered the 'Dr Phillip law Award for innovation' in 2005.

Over the past 20 years Lawrence has formed many strong musical relationships and collaborated in a wide variety of different roles and musical styles across Australia, UK and Europe. In the early 2000’s Lawrence performed on guitar regularly in the Melbourne Jazz and Improvised music scene with artists including David Tolley, Ren Walters, Shannon Barnett, Kynan Robinson, Joe Talia, Eamon McNelis and Lachlan McLean.

From 2010 to 2020 Lawrence was a collaborator with Australian singer-songwriter Ainslie Wills. Lawrence's sonic and compositional contributions to Ainslie Wills' live and recorded music began in 2010 with the release of Wills' Somebody for Everyone EP. This marked the beginning of a strong musical relationship which led to the pair co-writing and producing the Ainslie’s debut LP You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine which was nominated for the Australian Music Prize in 2013.

In 2016 They released their EP Oh the Gold, the single Drive added to high rotation on Triple J and their song Constellations was deemed Lauren Laverne’s Headphones Moment of the Day on BBC 6.

In May 2017 Lawrence toured with Ainslie on a 20-date national tour of the UK and EU supporting artist Tom Chaplin from the renowned UK rock band Keane.

In 2017 their song Running Second made it to the final nominations for APRA song of the year alongside the likes of Paul Kelly and Amy Shark. In 2019 Lawrence Co-produced Ainslie Wills’ second album All You Have is All You Need and in July 2020 the album received an AIR award nomination for Independent Album of The Year and the single Fear of Missing Out was shortlisted for APRA Song of The Year.

Some of Lawrence’s notable performances with Ainslie Wills include supporting Vance Joy (AU), Leon Bridges (US), Hiatus Kaiyote, Michael Kiwanuka (UK), Lianne La Havas (UK), Tom Chaplin (UK), Bernard Fanning (AU) as well as festivals including The Great Escape Festival (UK), Aussie BBQ (UK), Reeperbahn Festival (EU), Womadelaide, Falls Festival, Panama Festival and Dark MoFo.

Some of Lawrence’s work as a session musician in recent years include touring nationally in Australia as guitarist for ARIA Award winning artist Megan Washington, as guitarist for Ben Abrahams, playing guitar for the album launch of Dark Heart by Ross Irwin (The Cat Empire) and guitarist for the album launch of How to Forget by Paul Bender (Hiatus Kaiyote).

In 2022 Lawrence was also guitarist for Georgia Mooney’s Supergroup National Australian tour performing with numerous Australian artists including Ngaiire, Martha Marlow, Clare Bowditch, Josh Pyke, and Tim Minchin.

In recent years Lawrence has also worked as a producer for Melbourne songwriter Clio Renner (Rockwiz, Paul Kelly) and collaborated as a composer, arranger and producer for Florence Waking Vale’s debut self-titled EP with Kane Mazlin (Hungry Kids of Hungary) released in December 2023.

In January 2022 Lawrence released Lucent, an EP of original electronic music compositions and in January 2023 he released Revelate, an EP of original compositions for solo baritone guitar.

Lawrence’s latest 2024 release ‘bloom into’ is an electro-acoustic solo guitar EP consisting of three improvised pieces that incorporate extended techniques, real-time effects processing and the integration of metal and wooden objects to extend the timbral range of the electric guitar.

Lawrence currently performs regularly on guitar and bass with several Folk and Alternative artists including Emily Lubitz, Clio Renner, Butternut Sweetheart and Jeane. As well as in the Melbourne Jazz and Improvised music scene as a solo artist and with other artists and acts including James Macauley, Kurt Rainbow and Uncomfortable Science.