Dr Laura Farré Rozada is an award-winning pianist and mathematician, deemed a 'Rising Star' by BBC Music Magazine and a 'New Talent' by the BIME Equity Awards 2022. She also received the American Classical Young Musician Award 2022 in Washington D.C. (USA). Magazine Serra d'Or recently described her as 'one of the most valued performers of her generation, with dozens of awards and distinctions on five continents'. Laura's PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire was funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship. She has been a musician in residence in the UK (BCMG: NEXT Scheme 2018-2019) and Canada (Laurier University 2017, Banff Centre 2019), the latter supported with the Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Fund for Musicians Award. During seasons 2024-2027, Laura will be artist and lecturer in residence at CosmoCaixa (Barcelona) and CaixaForum (Sevilla, Zaragoza, Valencia, Madrid).

Her second solo album Nimbus (2021) was awarded 11 prizes in the USA (Los Angeles, San Diego, New York) and Spain, including the Premi Talent Cambra 2021; and was also nominated as Best Classical & Contemporary Album at Premis Enderrock 2022. Her debut album The French Reverie (2018) was described by Classical Music Magazine as 'a model for young artists making their recording debuts'. Both projects were crowdfunded by 250 patrons from 30 countries across the 5 continents. Laura will release her third album in 2025.

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As a soloist, Laura performed in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, UK, Canada, USA, Argentina and Singapore. Her concerts were programmed in venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Southbank Centre (London), Holzmarkt 25 (Berlin), Usina del Arte (Buenos Aires), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), L'Auditori (Barcelona), Fundación March (Madrid), Vital Fundazioa (Vitoria-Gasteiz), McAninch Arts Center (Chicago), Art Share LA (Los Angeles), Heller Center for Arts & Humanities (Colorado Springs), Gallery345 (Toronto), University Club of Montreal, Steinway Hall (London), V&A Museum (London), Britten Theatre (London), CBSO Centre (Birmingham), Bulgaria Hall (Sofia), Beckley's Hall (Novi Sad), MNAC (Barcelona) and CosmoCaixa (Barcelona). Laura performed at festivals such as NAK (Pamplona), Dansàneu (Pyrenees), Festival de piano ‘Abbaye de Saint-Savin et Vallée des Fresques’ (Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe), Classical:NEXT (Berlin), FiraB (Mallorca), Toca'm Tortosa, Delicatessen Musiquem Lleida, Festival de Música ‘Ciudad de Chipiona’, Primavera Musical de Vistabella, Flatpack Film Festival: Soundscreen (Birmingham) and the ‘Ligeti in Wonderland’ Festival (London) curated by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

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Laura worked with conductors Edmon Colomer, Timothy Lines, Jean Deroyer, Steven Schick, Tyshawn Sorey, Thomas Foskett-Barnes, Matthew Hardy, Tomàs Grau, Xavier Pagès-Corella, Francesc Prat, Yannick Mayaud and Jean-Bernard Matter; and performed with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Court-Circuit (Paris) and International Contemporary Ensemble (New York). Her live performances were broadcasted on France 3, France Musique, BBC Radio 3, Sveriges Radio P2 (Stockholm), RTVE, TV3, Canal 33, Radio Clásica, Catalunya Ràdio, Catalunya Música and UER (Euroradio Top Young Performers Series). She also appeared on national and international media such as Brum Radio, Classic FM Radio, Bulgarian National Radio, Radio Filarmonía (Peru), BBC Music Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, International Piano Magazine, American radios KCME (Colorado Springs) and KALW (San Francisco), RAC1, iCat, Onda Cero and Cadena SER. Additionally, Laura was awarded prizes at competitions in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, UK and USA. During 2017-2018, she was featured at the exposition D’ONES: Women’s (R)evolution in Music commissioned by Enderrock Magazine. Laura also performs and is interviewed in the documentary Revolutionary Quartet, l'enigma Gerhard, which premiered in the film festival In-Edit Barcelona 2023.

Laura's interest in collaborating with living composers led her to work with renowned composers including George Crumb, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Rebecca Saunders, Márton Illés, Rolf Hind, Nino Russell, Albert Sardà and Leonora Milà. She has given 20 world premieres and 57 national premieres of works written by Unsuk Chin, Philippe Manoury, David Lang, George Lewis, Dai Fujikura, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Pierre Jodlowski, Vladimir Djambazov, Thierry Escaich, Ofer Ben-Amots, Tyshawn Sorey, Miya Masaoka, Tatev Amiryan, Josep Maria Guix, Alex Baranowski, José Martínez, Joel Järventausta, Lara Poe, Yixuan Zhao and Piyawat Louilarpprasert, among others; as well as by the historical composers Komitas Vardapet, Alan Hovhaness, Aleksandr Spendiaryan, Edouard Abramian, Dimitar Nenov, Alexei Stanchinsky and Gayane Chebotarian. Laura also commissioned and world-premiered three Piano Concertos written by Feliu Gasull, Joel Järventausta and Angela Elizabeth Slater, the latter funded by Ambache Charitable Trust, PRS Foundation and RVW Trust. Her albums The French Reverie and Nimbus feature 5 world-premiere recordings. Laura's recordings of Ofer Ben-Amots' piano music are part of this composer's archive at the National Library of the State of Israel and The Jewish People in Jerusalem.

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As a researcher, Laura specialised in music and mathematics, musical memory, performance psychology and the post-tonal repertoire. She has been a guest lecturer at Boston University, Colorado College, University of Colorado (Colorado Springs), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Fundación Teatro del Lago (Chile), L-Università ta' Malta, Isidor Bajić Music School (Novi Sad), Universitetet i Bergen (Norway), Birmingham City University, Conservatori de Tarragona, Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, Casa Seat, Amics del Liceu, Ciencia en Acción, Residencia de Estudiantes (ICMAT-CSIC), Universidad de Zaragoza and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Her articles were published by Platea Magazine, Sul Ponticello, Debates and Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques. Laura presented her research at conferences by the Royal Musical Association (RMA), American Musicological Society (AMS), European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM), Musicological Society of Australia (MSA) and Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO); hosted by institutions such as the University of Cincinnati, Boise State University (Idaho), Gannon University (Pennsylvania), State University of New York (Potsdam), University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, McGill University (Montreal), University of Alberta (Edmonton), City University of London, University of Hull, Cardiff University, Maynooth University (Ireland), Accademia Musicale "Studio Musica" (Italy), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Niš (Serbia), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Copenhagen), Universitetet i Oslo and University of Melbourne. 

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Laura is also an active radio broadcaster and disseminator of music and mathematics. She is the director, scriptwriter and presenter of the shows La cinta de Möbius (Catalunya Música), which was awarded the Premi Matemàtiques i Societat 2023 (Institut d'Estudis Catalans), Premio Prisma 2023 (Casa de las Ciencias a la Divulgación, A Coruña) and nominated as Best Musical Show to Premis ARC 2022; and Musimáticas (Radio Clásica). She also collaborates with Spanish National Radio's shows De Pe a Pa (Pepa Fernández, Alfredo Laín) and Sinfonía de la mañana (Martín Llade). Laura is also the director, scriptwriter and presenter of the series Temas de Música (Radio Clásica), dedicated to performance psychology. Additionally, she arranged music for the Swedish choir Köörmit and sang in choir festivals in Germany, France and Russia. She also worked with visual artists Gnomalab and Alba G. Corral, with 2Faced Dance Company and dancers Jonathan Goddard, Vilma Tihilä and Jess Williams. She has performed and recorded for indie bands such as GentleMusicMen, The Pinker Tones and Love of Lesbian.

Laura completed her Master of Music degree at the Royal College of Music in London as an RCM Patrons’ Award Holder, where she received an 'Exceptional' Distinction (94%) for one of her final recitals. Previously, she graduated with Distinction from her Bachelor's and Master's piano studies with Jean-François Dichamp at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC), and from her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She obtained several Distinction Awards in all her studies. Additionally, she extended her training with professors Jordi Vilaprinyó Del Perugia, Stanislav Pochekin, Mikhail Voskresensky, Felix Gottlieb, Konrad Elser, Boris Berman, Dmitri Alexeev, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Michel Béroff, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Alba Ventura, Albert Attenelle, Andrew Haigh, Albert Tarakanov, Natasa Sarcevic, Marcel Baudet, Rita Wagner, Mark Knoop, Cory Smythe, Ryan Muncy, Claire Chase, Malcolm Wilson, Ludovica Mosca, Nelly Ben-Or and the Arditti Quartet.​

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