KENYON HALL PRESENTS
Bernard Struber & Laure Struber
Feat. The Mighty Wurlitzer

Sunday, June 21st 2026
Doors: 5:00 pm / Show: 5:30 pm

All Ages
Seated
Suggested Donation - $20

Program Notes:

TBD

Bernard Struber lives in Strasbourg, France. He began studying music when he was nine years old. As a teenager, he displayed his musical range, performing regularly as a rock guitarist, a jazz pianist, and performing classical and liturgical pieces on pipe organ each Sunday. Mr. Struber’s range in instruments, style and repertoire, is part of his lifelong pursuit to enrich his musical life and achievements through the influence of multiple schools and cultures in music from around the world.

At the age of sixteen, Mr. Struber entered the Conservatory of Strasbourg, where he received several prizes for his mastery of the pipe organ. Not limited to one instrument, nor one style in music, he created the Department of Jazz and Improvisation at the Conservatory of Strasbourg in 1979. In 1987, Mr. Struber was instrumental in the creation of the Regional Jazz Orchestra in Alsace, now, “Struber’s Jazztett”. The Jazztett has premiered over 200 original compositions and arrangements and has played worldwide in major festivals in Paris, Vienne, Amsterdam, Washington, Berlin, and Odessa. Having also premiered compositions of contemporary music by Franco Donatoni, music for the Ballets de l’Opera du Rhin, and an original Jazz-Oratorio at the Strasbourg Cathedral, the Jazztet has many recordings in its long history. All show a range of interests and influences, including reflections on traditional music from Africa and Turkey (“The Flavours of Memory”), a recording influenced by rock music (“Parfum de Récidive”), and another recording inspired by 16th Century composer, Louise Labbé (“Soul Songs et Louise”). Recent original compositions by Mr. Struber include “Symphonie Déjouée”, recorded in May 2017, and “Fly to Hope”, a suite of seven preludes of improvisation based on polyrythmic questions and new Chinese modes, which premiered in April of this year.

French-born musician Laure Struber started playing the piano at the age of 3. A few years later she entered the Strasbourg Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, and performed regularly in France and Germany throughout her childhood. She came to the United States for the first time when she was 20, through an exchange program between Strasbourg University and Syracuse University, and continued her studies as a Fulbright scholar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, earning a Master in Piano Performance. She settled in Seattle in 2014, where she earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Washington.

In the past decade, Laure has performed widely throughout Europe and in the United States as a soloist, chamber musician, and keyboardist for ensembles such at the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Inverted Space, Harry Partch, and the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. She has received numerous awards, including a France-Fulbright alumni distinction and a Soroptimist Prize, and was the winner of the University of Washington Concerto Competition for her performance of Chopin E minor Concerto.

Dr. Struber is also a dedicated music educator and has taught for more than a decade in France and in the United States. Determined to bring music to everyone, she created workshops for children with learning difficulties and disadvantaged social backgrounds. She currently teaches in her own piano studio, works for Pacific Northwest Ballet as a rehearsal pianist, and performs regularly both in solo and chamber music concerts.

Laure currently lives in West Seattle with her husband Spencer, her daughter Charlotte, and her golden retriever Bennie.