In Jyväskylä, Finland, Lauri played violin from childhood and made his first instrument as his final project to graduate from Jyväskylä Waldorf School, under the tutelage of violinmakers Mika Lahtinen and Helmut Bleffert.

He attended Newark School of Violinmaking from 2006-2009. After school he worked in Germany at workshop of Wolfram Ries and at Risto Vainio in Helsinki before establishing his own business. After a couple of years he began a cooperation with Toonika, which lasted for five years.