LAURA FARRÉ ROZADA
PIANIST · MATHEMATICIAN · RESEARCHER · PRESENTER
Biography
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 has also received the American Classical Young Musician Award 2022 in Washington D.C. Laura is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she has been awarded a Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship. She is one of the founding members of the TiMP Symposium, a member of the Midlands Music Research Network and a reviewer for the NIME International Conference.
Laura has been a musician in residence in the UK (BCMG: NEXT Scheme 2018-2019) and Canada (Laurier University 2017, Banff Centre 2019), the latter generously supported with the Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Fund for Musicians Award.
Her second solo album Nimbus (2021, Seed Music) was sponsored by 190 patrons from 25 countries across the 5 continents. Nimbus has been awarded 11 prizes in the USA (Los Angeles, San Diego, New York) and Spain, including the Premi Talent Cambra 2021. Nimbus was also nominated as Best Classical & Contemporary Album at Premis Enderrock 2022. Her debut album The French Reverie (2018) was crowdfunded by 208 patrons from 28 countries across the 5 continents. Classical Music Magazine described it as 'a model for young artists making their recording debuts'. Laura toured with this album in 5 countries, including the cities of New York, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Montreal, San Francisco, Colorado Springs, Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, Sofia and London, among many others.
As a soloist, she has performed in Spain, France, Germany, Canada, USA, Bulgaria, UK, Singapore and Argentina. Her concerts have been programmed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Southbank Centre, Usina del Arte, Vital Fundazioa, Fundación Juan March, Palau de la Música Catalana, University Club of Montreal, Birmingham Hippodrome, Fundación Eutherpe, Ateneo de Madrid, Art Share LA, Packard Hall, Heller Center for Arts & Humanities, McAninch Arts Center, Spectrum, Gallery345, CBSO Centre, The Courtyard, Bulgaria Hall, Steinway Hall, V&A Museum, Britten Theatre, CosmoCaixa, MNAC and L’Auditori. She has been featured at festivals such as NAK, Dansàneu, Toca'm Tortosa, Delicatessen Musiquem Lleida, Festival de piano ‘Abbaye de Saint-Savin et Vallée des Fresques’, Festival de Música ‘Ciudad de Chipiona’, Primavera Musical de Vistabella, Mostra de Piano dels segles XX i XXI, Oasis Musicale, Music Fridays @ Noon, UCCS Presents, Classically Alive Series, Sunset Music & Arts Concert Series, Flatpack Film Festival: Soundscreen and the ‘Ligeti in Wonderland’ Festival curated by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Laura has 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. She has also performed side-by-side with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Court-Circuit and International Contemporary Ensemble. Her live performances have been 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 has also appeared on national and international media such as Brum Radio, Classic FM Radio, Bulgarian National Radio, Peruvian Radio Filarmonía, BBC Music Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, International Piano Magazine, American Radio KCME, RAC1, iCat and Cadena SER. She has been awarded prizes at competitions in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, UK and USA. During 2017-2018, she was featured at the itinerary exposition 'D’ONES: Women’s (R)evolution in Music' commissioned by Enderrock Magazine.
Laura has worked with renowned composers including George Crumb, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Rebecca Saunders, Pierre Jodlowski, Márton Illés, Rolf Hind, Josep Maria Guix, Angela Elizabeth Slater, Nino Russell and Albert Sardà. She has given 20 world premieres and 32 national premieres of works written by Unsuk Chin, Philippe Manoury, David Lang, George Lewis, Dai Fujikura, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Vladimir Djambazov, Thierry Escaich, Ofer Ben-Amots, Tyshawn Sorey, Miya Masaoka, Alex Baranowski, José Martínez, Joel Järventausta, Lara Poe, Yixuan Zhao and Piyawat Louilarpprasert, among others. Laura has also commissioned and world-premiered 3 new 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 include 5 world-premiere recordings.
As a researcher, Laura is specialised in music and mathematics, musical memory and the piano repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has been a guest lecturer at Boston University, Colorado College, University of Colorado (Colorado Springs), University of Toronto, Chilean Fundación Teatro del Lago, Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, Casa Seat, Amics del Liceu, Ciencia en Acción and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Her articles have been published by Platea Magazine, Sul Ponticello and Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques.
She has been a collaborator in radio shows De Pe a Pa (Pepa Fernández, Alfredo Laín) and Sinfonía de la mañana (Martín Llade) on Spanish National Radio, disseminating the connections between music and mathematics. On the same topic, she presents La cinta de Möbius (Premi ARC 2022 nomination) at Catalan National Radio and Musimáticas at Spanish National Radio. Laura has also engaged in several musical projects that involved her in arranging music for the Swedish choir Köörmit and singing in choir festivals in Germany, France and Russia. She has also worked with visual artist Gnomalab, with 2Faced Dance Company and dancers Jonathan Goddard, Vilma Tihilä and Jess Williams. She has performed and recorded for bands such as GentleMusicMen, The Pinker Tones and Love of Lesbian.
She 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.

AWARDS
Brilliant Award 2023
7th Brilliant Talent Discovery Awards, Singapore
Nimbus: Best Album 2022
Petrichor International Music Competition, USA
3rd Prize Winner 2022
II International Music Competition Małopolska, Poland
2nd Prize Winner 2022
Second International Competition 'Music in the Vineyards', Serbia
3rd Prize Winner 2022
Birmingham International Music Competition, UK
4th Prize Winner 2022
19th Padova International Music Competition, Italy
2nd Place Winner 2022
Tenth International Competition Jean Sibelius Festival, Finland
Silver Medal 2022
WPTA Indonesia 2nd International Piano Competition, Indonesia
3rd Prize Winner 2022
Fundación Cultural Patagonia International Piano Competition, Argentina
1st Place Winner 2022
American Protégé International Music Talent Competition, USA
'Nuevo Talento' Award 2022
Premios Iberoamericanos BIME Equity, Spain
Golden Award 2022
WPTA Singapore 4th International Piano Competition, Singapore
Bronze Prize 2022
Amadeus International Music Awards (AIMA), Austria
3rd Place Winner 2022
American Classical Young Musician Award, USA
Honorable mention with good results 2022
Rising Stars Grand Prix International Music Competition Berlin, Germany
Bronze Award 2022
4th World Piano Teachers Association International Competition, Finland
5th Prize Winner 2022
Mimas Music Festival - International Competition, Italy
1st Place Winner 2022
King's Peak International Music Competition, USA
Nimbus: Gold Winner Best Album 2022
LIT Talent Awards, USA
3rd Place Winner 2022
American Music Talent Competition, USA
Silver Award 2022
Excellence Piano Awards, International Jury
4th Prize Winner 2022
London Classical Music Competition, UK
1st Prize Winner 2022
American Protégé International Piano & Strings Competition, USA
Distinction 2022
WPTA International Piano Competition, Spain
1st Prize Winner 2022
"Golden Classical Music Awards" International Competition, USA
3rd Prize Winner 2021
International Clara Schumann Competition, International Jury
Honorable Mention 2021
International Music Competition "Vienna New Year Concert", Austria
Nimbus: Premi Talent Cambra 'Música i Composició' 2021
Fundació Impulsa Talentum XXI-Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, Spain
1st Prize Winner 2021
IMKA Music Competition, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nimbus: Silver Medals for emerging artist, creativity and originality 2021
Global Music Awards, USA
Nimbus: Grand Prix 'Crown of Stars' Best CD 2021
Music & Stars Awards, International Jury
Nimbus: Best Piano Solo CD, Cover, Concept and Sound Editing 2021
Music & Stars Awards, International Jury
Nimbus: Best Classical Album 2021
The Akademia Music Awards, USA
Angela Elizabeth Slater's Piano Concerto Commissioning Grant 2020
Ambache Charitable Trust, UK
Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Fund for Musicians Award 2019
Banff Centre, Canada
Rising Star May 2019
BBC Music Magazine, UK
Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship Award 2019-2023
Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
BCMG: NEXT Scheme 2018-2019
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, Switzerland-UK
RCM Patrons’ Award Holder 2017-2018
Royal College of Music, UK
High Commendation at the RCM Contemporary Competition 2017
Royal College of Music, UK
'Exceptional' Distinction (94%) at the Master's 1st-year Final Recital 2017
Royal College of Music, UK
High Commendation (10/10) at the Bachelor's Final Recital 2015
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), Spain
Best Performance of Scandinavian Music at the Choral Competition 2011
Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
High Commendation at the ‘Premis d’honor’ Competition 2011
Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona (BRUC), Spain

DISCOGRAPHY
Nimbus (2021, Seed Music), solo piano.
Works by Jodlowski, Chin, Takemitsu, Guix, Ravel, Thorvaldsdóttir, Fujikura and Zhao.
The French Reverie (2018, Edicions Albert Moraleda), solo piano.
Works by Escaich, Messiaen, Manoury, Ben-Amots, Dutilleux, Järventausta and Djambazov.
Sueño Infinito (2013, PIAS), pianist, GentleMusicMen.
Amigos & Friends (2011, Warner Music), collaborative pianist, The Pinker Tones.
Saturday Morning Record Club (2011, PIAS), pianist, GentleMusicMen.
Something to begin with (2008), drums, backing vocals, composition and lyrics, Lady Lemon.
NOMINATIONS
La cinta de Möbius: 'Millor programa musical' 2022
Premis ARC, Spain
Finalist: Arts & Culture Award of the Year 2022
Birmingham Awards, UK
Nimbus: 'Millor àlbum de clàssica i contemporània' 2022
Premis Enderrock, Spain
Distinction 2021
I International Music Competition Małopolska, Poland
Finalist: Young Achiever of the Year 2021
Birmingham Awards, UK