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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.​

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