LAURA FARRÉ ROZADA
PIANIST · MATHEMATICIAN · RESEARCHER · PRESENTER
Music & Mathematics
RADIO
04.07.2021-26.09.2021: Musimáticas. Radio Clásica, Spanish National Radio.
https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/musimaticas/
04.04.2021-Present: La cinta de Möbius. Catalunya Música, Catalan National Radio.
https://www.ccma.cat/catradio/la-cinta-de-mobius/
12.04.2021-Present: Sección Música y Matemáticas. Sinfonía de la mañana. Radio Clásica, Spanish National Radio.
https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/sinfonia-de-la-manana/
21.07.2020-25.08.2020: Sección Matemusicas. Un Verano de Pe a Pa, Las mañanas de RNE. Spanish National Radio.
https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/las-mananas-de-rne-con-pepa-fernandez/
RESEARCH
Current research: PhD Simplifying the Complex: Developing a New Method for Memorising Post-Tonal Piano Music.
Birmingham City University, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our-phds/our-researchers/profiles/laura-farre-rozada
Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship
www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/laura-farre-rozada/
LECTURES & LECTURE-RECITALS
13.12.2022 at 18h: Lecture 'Nimbus: Una mirada artística a les fractals [Nimbus: An artistic look at fractals]', Auditori Municipal Miquel Pont, Castellar del Vallès, Spain.
https://aulacastellar.cat/esdeveniment/nimbus-una-mirada-artistica-a-les-fractals/
14.07.2022 at 20h: Lecture-recital 'Nimbus: Una mirada artística a les fractals [Nimbus: An artistic look at fractals]' feat. Gnomalab, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain.
https://cosmocaixa.org/ca/p/laura-farre-rozada-gnomalab_a68098639
27.05.2022 at 19h: Lecture 'Nimbus: Una mirada artística a les fractals [Nimbus: An artistic look at fractals]', Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.
https://www.aulavilanova.cat/trimestre-actual/
23.03.2022 at 19:30h: Lecture 'Nimbus: Una mirada transversal al piano contemporani [Nimbus: A cross-sectional look at the contemporary piano]', Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, Valls, Spain.
09.12.2021 at 20h: Lecture-recital 'Nimbus: Una mirada transversal al piano contemporani [Nimbus: A cross-sectional look at the contemporary piano]', Auditori 'Eduard Toldrà', Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.
https://www.escenavilanova.cat/programacio/parlem_de_musica_desembre
27.02.2021 at 12h: Lecture-recital 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music', Cultura urbana, Casa Seat, Barcelona, Spain.
https://www.casa.seat/agenda/conferencia-musicada-laura-farre-rozada.htm
22.10.2020 at 17h: Lecture-workshop 'Music & Mathematics', Zona Maestra, Fundación Teatro del Lago, Frutillar, Chile.
29.01.2020 at 19h: Lecture-recital 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music', Auditori Barradas, L'Hospitalet, Spain.
28.01.2020 at 18h: Lecture-recital 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music', Auditori Eduard Toldrà, Campus de la Mediterrània, Neàpolis, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain. http://neapolis.cat/ca/%E2%80%9Csimetria-i-fractals-en-la-musica%E2%80%9D-conferencia-de-la-pianista%2C-matematica-i-investigadora-laura-farre-rozada/a/325
24.10.2019 at 19:30h: Lecture-recital 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music', Packard Hall, Colorado College, USA.
08.10.2019 at 9:30h: Composer's Forum Presentation 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music & Entrepreunership', Electronic Music Studio, School of Music, Boston University, USA. http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=229533&cid=20&oid=0
CONFERENCE PAPERS
28-29.09.2021: Ciencia en Acción XXII, Atarfe (Granada), Spain.
Inaugural Conference. 'How Symmetrical Can Music Be?'.
07-09.06.2021: Midlands4Cities Research Festival 2021, West Midlands, UK.
Research Relays. 'Testing Conceptual Simplification in Music Performance: A Pilot Study'.
05-07.03.2021: University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Lecture-recital. 'Testing a New Memorisation Method for Post-Tonal Piano Music'.
https://www.uoftgradmusicconference.com/schedule
23.10.2020: Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Música amb Enginy. 'The Musical Mathematics of Pythagoras: Historicity or Myth?'.
16.09.2020: PhD Presentations, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK.
Progression Assessment Panels. 'Conceptual Simplification: A New Memorisation Method for Post-Tonal Piano Music'.
13-14.07.2020: Midlands4Cities Research Festival 2020, West Midlands, UK.
Research Relays. 'Practice-Based Research: Developing Memorisation Strategies for Post-Tonal Music'.
THESES
L. Farré Rozada, ‘Memorising George Crumb’s ‘Makrokosmos I’: Exploring New Strategies for Non-Tonal Music’, Unpublished Master’s Dissertation, Royal College of Music, London, (2018), Distinction – 76%
L. Farré Rozada, ‘Escales musicals i fraccions contínues’ [‘Musical Scales and Continued Fractions’], Bachelor’s Dissertation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Polytechnic University of Catalonia], Barcelona, (2016), Distinction – 9.5/10
https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/78754
ARTICLES
L. Farré Rozada, ‘El código Messiaen’ [Messiaen's Code], Platea Magazine, 23, (2022), 32-36, https://www.plateamagazine.com/tienda/numero-023-klaus-maekelae
L. Farré Rozada, ‘Così fan simmetria’, Temporada d'òpera 2021-2022 dels Amics del Liceu, 10, (2021), 112-113, https://amicsliceu.com/llibre-temporada/
L. Farré Rozada, ‘Des de Babilònia fins a l'actualitat. Les matemàtiques de les escales musicals’ [‘From Babylon to the present day. The mathematics of musical scales’], Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, 7(10), (2020), 82-105, https://raco.cat/index.php/ButlletiBalaguer/issue/view/29897
L. Farré Rozada, ‘La matemàtica artística d’Escher i Ligeti’ [‘The artistic mathematics of Escher and Ligeti’], SCM/Notícies (Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques), 47, (2020), 118-121, https://scm.iec.cat/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Noticies-47_web.pdf
L. Farré Rozada, ‘Una Simetría Fractal: La «Toccata pour piano» de Philippe Manoury’ [‘A Fractal Symmetry: Toccata pour piano by Philippe Manoury’], Sul Ponticello, 73, (2020), https://sulponticello.com/iii-epoca/una-simetria-fractal-la-toccata-pour-piano-de-philippe-manoury/
