LAURA FARRÉ ROZADA
PIANIST · MATHEMATICIAN · RESEARCHER · PRESENTER
Research
Current research: PhD Simplifying the Complex: Developing a New Method for Memorising Post-Tonal Piano Music​.
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Birmingham City University, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our-phds/our-researchers/profiles/laura-farre-rozada
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Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship
www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/laura-farre-rozada/
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CONFERENCE PAPERS
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28-29.09.2021: Ciencia en Acción XXII, Atarfe (Granada), Spain.
Inaugural Conference. 'How Symmetrical Can Music Be?'.
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07-09.06.2021: Midlands4Cities Research Festival 2021, West Midlands, UK.
Research Relays. 'Testing Conceptual Simplification in Music Performance: A Pilot Study'.
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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
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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?'.
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16.09.2020: PhD Presentations, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK.
Progression Assessment Panels. 'Conceptual Simplification: A New Memorisation Method for Post-Tonal Piano Music'.
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13-14.07.2020: Midlands4Cities Research Festival 2020, West Midlands, UK.
Research Relays. 'Practice-Based Research: Developing Memorisation Strategies for Post-Tonal Music'.
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03.12.2019: TiMP Symposium 2019, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, UK.
Technology in Musical Performance Study Group, member of the organising committee. https://timp.integra.io/
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THESES
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Memorising George Crumb’s ‘Makrokosmos I’: Exploring New Strategies for Non-Tonal Music’, Master’s Thesis, Royal College of Music, London, (2018), Distinction – 76%
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘A la recerca del temps perdut: l’ús de la memòria en la sonata per a piano de Dutilleux’ [‘In Search of Lost Time: The Usage of Memory in Dutilleux’s Piano Sonata’], Master’s Thesis, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya [Catalonia College of Music], Barcelona, (2016), Distinction – 10/10
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Escales musicals i fraccions contínues’ [‘Musical Scales and Continued Fractions’], Bachelor’s Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Polytechnic University of Catalonia], Barcelona, (2016), Distinction – 9.5/10
https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/78754
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘El piano francès dels segles XX i XXI: una breu investigació per al disseny d’un repertori de concert’ [‘The French Piano of the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Brief Study for Designing a Concert Repertoire], Bachelor’s Thesis, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya [Catalonia College of Music], Barcelona, (2015), Distinction – 9.3/10
https://www.recercat.cat/handle/2072/251811
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ARTICLES
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘El código Messiaen’ [Messiaen's Code], Platea Magazine, 23, (2022), 32-36, https://www.plateamagazine.com/tienda/numero-023-klaus-maekelae
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Così fan simmetria’, Temporada d'òpera 2021-2022 dels Amics del Liceu, 10, (2021), 112-113, https://amicsliceu.com/llibre-temporada/
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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
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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
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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/
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘’Tzigane’: La primera visita de Ravel a Barcelona’ [‘Tzigane: Ravel’s First Visit to Barcelona’], L’ESMUC digital, 56, (2017), http://www.esmuc.cat/esmuc_digital/Esmuc-digital/Revistes/Numero-56-marc-2017/Article
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Messiaen, Dutilleux and Boulez: The French Hallmark of Contemporary Piano’, Academia.edu, (2017), https://www.academia.edu/31415189/MESSIAEN_DUTILLEUX_AND_BOULEZ_-_updated
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Messiaen at the Piano: A Portrait’, Revoice! Magazine, 2, (2017),
https://www.revoicemagazine.com/issue-6/2017/2/6/laura-farr-rozada-messiaen-at-the-piano-a-portait
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Messiaen, Dutilleux i Boulez: El segell francès del piano contemporani’ [Messiaen, Dutilleux and Boulez: The French Hallmark of Contemporary Piano], L’ESMUC digital, 47, (2016),
http://www.esmuc.cat/esmuc_digital/Esmuc-digital/Revistes/Numero-47-abril-2016/Article
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘To What Extent are the Balkans Mediterranean?’, Academia.edu, (2016), https://www.academia.edu/24903996/TO_WHAT_EXTENT_ARE_THE_BALKANS_MEDITERRANEAN
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Fins a quin punt és mediterrània la península balcànica?’ [‘To What Extent are the Balkans Mediterranean?’], ÉS mediterrani, (2016), https://esmediterrani.info/2015/03/22/fins-a-quin-punt-es-mediterrania-la-peninsula-balcanica/
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LECTURES & LECTURE-RECITALS
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11.06.2023 at 17:45h: Lecture-recital 'Nimbus: Una mirada artística a les fractals [Nimbus: An artistic look at fractals]', El Forn de les Arts, Barcelona, Spain.
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14.03.2023 at 15:30h: Lecture 'Keeping it simple: Memorisation strategies for post-tonal piano music', Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK.
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/prs-laura-farre-rozada-14-03-2023
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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/
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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
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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/
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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.
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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
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12.07.2021 at 19h: Lecture 'La dualitat de Lucia di Lammermoor [Lucia di Lammermoor's duality]', Amics del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain.
https://amicsliceu.com/conferencia-a-lentorn-de-lucia-di-lammermoor/
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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
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18.02.2021 at 15h: 'Cultura emprenedora a l'escola primària: The French Reverie & Nimbus [Entrepreneurial culture in primary school: The French Reverie & Nimbus]', Escola Pompeu Fabra, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.
http://culturaemprenedora.imet.cat/
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22.10.2020 at 17h: Lecture-workshop 'Music & Mathematics', Zona Maestra, Fundación Teatro del Lago, Frutillar, Chile.
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29.01.2020 at 19h: Lecture-recital 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music', Pessics de Ciència, Auditori Barradas, L'Hospitalet, Spain.
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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
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13.12.2019 at 9h: 'Cultura emprenedora a l'escola primària: The French Reverie' [Entrepreneurial culture in primary school: The French Reverie], Escola Pompeu Fabra, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.
http://culturaemprenedora.imet.cat/
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24.10.2019 at 19:30h: Lecture-recital 'Symmetry and Fractals in Music', Packard Hall, Colorado College, USA.
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23.10.2019 at 14h: Lecture-recital 'The French Reverie: Devising a New Project of Contemporary Music from Scratch', UCCS Music Program Presents, Heller Center for Arts & Humanities, University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, USA.
http://uccspresents.org/events/vapa/2019-20/laura-farre-rozada
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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
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07.10.2019 at 18:30h: Lecture-Recital 'The French Reverie', Marshall Room, School of Music, Boston University, USA.
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=229533&cid=20&oid=0
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RADIO
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04.07.2021-Present: Musimáticas. Radio Clásica, Spanish National Radio.
https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/musimaticas/
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04.04.2021-Present: La cinta de Möbius. Catalunya Música, Catalan National Radio.
https://www.ccma.cat/catradio/la-cinta-de-mobius/
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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/
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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/
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WRITTEN COLLABORATIONS
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L. Farré Rozada, ‘Quinze anys, quinze testimonis: Ressenya de la promoció 2011-2012 de l’ESMUC’ [Fifteen Years, Fifteen Testimonies: Review of ESMUC’s Promotion 2011-2012], L’ESMUC digital, 47, (2016),
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