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) and was awarded the honorable mention Premi Creu Casas 2025 (Institut d'Estudis Catalans). The press described her as 'one of the most original, rigorous and reflective artists of her generation, capable of combining scientific rigor and artistic creation on an international scale'. Her PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire was funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship. She was 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 is artist and lecturer in residence at CosmoCaixa (Barcelona) and CaixaForum (Sevilla, Zaragoza, Valencia, Tarragona, Madrid).

Recently, Laura released her third solo album, Araspel (2025), dedicated to Armenian music, which was awarded 16 prizes in the UK, USA and Spain, including Premi Núvol Cast@fiore 2025, Melómano de Oro 2026 and Premi Enderrock 2026. Her second album Nimbus (2021) was awarded 12 prizes in the USA, Greece and Spain, including the Premi Talent Cambra 2021. Classical Music Magazine described her debut The French Reverie (2018) as 'a model for young artists making their recording debuts'. Both projects were crowdfunded by 250 patrons from 30 countries across 5 continents. Currently, Laura is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) and the Latin Recording Academy (Latin Grammys).

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As a soloist, Laura performed in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Faroe Islands, UK, Malta, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Armenia, Canada, USA, Argentina, Abu Dhabi 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), Teatro Colón (A Coruña), Fundación Cerezales (León), Teatre des Born (Menorca), McAninch Arts Center (Chicago), Art Share LA (Los Angeles), Heller Center for Arts & Humanities (Colorado Springs), Gallery345 (Toronto), University Club of Montreal, Nordic House (Torshavn), Varpið (Klaksvík), Steinway Hall (London), V&A Museum (London), Britten Theatre (London), CBSO Centre (Birmingham), Armenian State Philharmonia, Cafesjian Center for the Arts (Yerevan), Bulgaria Hall (Sofia), Beckley's Hall (Novi Sad) and MNAC (Barcelona). Some of the festivals she performed in are Summartónar (Faroe Islands), VIAF (Malta), NAK (Pamplona), Dansàneu (Pyrenees), Festival de piano ‘Abbaye de Saint-Savin et Vallée des Fresques’ (France), Classical:NEXT (Berlin), FiraB (Mallorca), Festival de Música ‘Ciudad de Chipiona’, Flatpack Film Festival (Birmingham) and the ‘Ligeti in Wonderland’ Festival (London) curated by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

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Laura worked with conductors Jean-Bernard Matter, Timothy Lines, Jean Deroyer, Steven Schick, Tyshawn Sorey, Thomas Foskett-Barnes, Matthew Hardy, Edmon Colomer, Tomàs Grau, Xavier Pagès-Corella, Francesc Prat and Yannick Mayaud; and performed with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Court-Circuit (Paris) and International Contemporary Ensemble (New York). Additionally, Laura was awarded prizes at competitions in North and South America, Europe and Asia. She worked with visual artists Gnomalab and Alba G. Corral, and dancers Jonathan Goddard, Vilma Tihilä, Jess Williams and 2Faced Dance Company. She also arranged music for the Swedish choir Köörmit, sang in choir festivals in Germany, France and Russia, and performed and recorded for the indie bands GentleMusicMen, The Pinker Tones and Love of Lesbian.

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Her live performances were broadcast on France 3, France Musique, BBC Radio 3, Sveriges Radio P2 (Sweden), Kringvarp Føroya (Faroe Islands), 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, including FOX News, Armenian Public Television, Classic FM Radio, Bulgarian National Radio, Latvian National Radio, Radio Filarmonía (Peru), Classical Music Magazine, International Piano Magazine, Mūzikas Saule (Latvia), PianoNews (Germany), KCME (Colorado Springs), KALW (San Francisco), iCat, RAC1, Onda Cero, COPE and Cadena SER. 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 at the film festival In-Edit Barcelona 2023.

Some of the composers Laura worked with include George Crumb, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Rebecca Saunders, Márton Illés, Rolf Hind and Nino Russell. She has given 23 world premieres and 101 national premieres of works written by John Cage, Unsuk Chin, Philippe Manoury, David Lang, George Lewis, Thierry Escaich, Dai Fujikura, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Pierre Jodlowski, Sunleif Rasmussen, Ofer Ben-Amots, Vladimir Djambazov, Tyshawn Sorey, Miya Masaoka, Tatev Amiryan, Josep Maria Guix, Leonora Milà, Alex Baranowski, José Martínez, Lara Poe, Yixuan Zhao and Piyawat Louilarpprasert; as well as by the historical composers Komitas, Alan Hovhaness, Alexander Spendiaryan, Eduard Abramian, Dimitar Nenov, Alexei Stanchinsky, Gayane Chebotarian and Arno Babadjanian. Laura also commissioned and world-premiered 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 ongoing collaboration with composer Gerard Erruz is funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut. Her albums The French Reverie, Nimbus and Araspel feature 6 world-premiere recordings, and her 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 is currently an Associate Professor at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and Visiting Professor at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC). Laura was invited as a guest lecturer at Boston University, Colorado College, University of Colorado (Colorado Springs), University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), Belmont University (Nashville), San Diego State University, New York University (Abu Dhabi), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Fundación Teatro del Lago (Chile), L-Università ta' Malta, Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), Isidor Bajić Music School (Serbia), Universitetet i Bergen (Norway), Fróðskaparsetur Føroya (Faroe Islands), Birmingham City University, Residencia de Estudiantes (ICMAT-CSIC), Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander), Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad de Granada, Universitat de Barcelona, Escolania de Montserrat, Generalitat de Catalunya, Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, Casa Seat, Amics del Liceu and Parque de las Ciencias (Granada), among others. 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), Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) and International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS); 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), Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Brazil), City University of London, University of Cambridge, University of Hull, Cardiff University, Maynooth University (Ireland), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Copenhagen), Royal Academy of Music (Aarhus), Universitetet i Oslo, Accademia Musicale "Studio Musica" (Italy), University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Niš (Serbia), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Shanghai Conservatory of Music and University of Melbourne. 

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Laura is also an award-winning radio broadcaster and disseminator of music and mathematics, recognised with the Premio Internet en Ciencia y Tecnología 2026 (Spanish Senate-Google). She is the director, scriptwriter and presenter of the shows La cinta de Möbius (Catalunya Música), which was awarded the Premi RAC Innovació 2026 (Ràdio Associació de Catalunya), Premi Matemàtiques i Societat 2023 (Institut d'Estudis Catalans), Premio Prisma 2023 (Casa de las Ciencias a la Divulgación, A Coruña) and nominated to the Premi Alícia 2026, Premi Clavé 2025 and Premi ARC 2022; and Musimáticas (Radio Clásica). Laura is also a scriptwriter and presenter at Temas de Música (Radio Clásica) and the podcast Curious Ears by Gaudeamus Festival (Netherlands); and a collaborator of the Spanish National Radio's shows De Pe a Pa (Pepa Fernández) and Sinfonía de la mañana (Martín Llade).

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.​

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