Laura Farré Rozada – klaverkonsert í Varpinum

Í samstarvi við Summartónar 2025 bjóðar Varpið til forkunnuga klaver-konsert, tá Laura Farré Rozada úr Katalonia, vitjar í Klaksvík.

Hetta verður ein sjáldsom uppliving, har vit fáa høvið til at hoyra eina heimsstjørnu spæla uppá okkara nýggja Steinway-flygil.

At Laura Farré Rozada er sera dugnalig, og vællýddur klaverleikari, kann lesast úr hennara umfatandi CV (niðanfyri á enskum).

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). 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 will be artist and lecturer in residence at CosmoCaixa (Barcelona) and CaixaForum (Sevilla, Zaragoza, Valencia, Madrid).

Her second solo album Nimbus (2021) was awarded 11 prizes in the USA (Los Angeles, San Diego, New York) and Spain, including the Premi Talent Cambra 2021; and was also nominated as Best Classical & Contemporary Album at Premis Enderrock 2022. Her debut album The French Reverie (2018) was described by Classical Music Magazine as ‘a model for young artists making their recording debuts’. Both projects were crowdfunded by 250 patrons from 30 countries across the 5 continents.

As a soloist, Laura performed in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, UK, Canada, USA, Argentina 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), McAninch Arts Center (Chicago), Art Share LA (Los Angeles), Heller Center for Arts & Humanities (Colorado Springs), Gallery345 (Toronto), University Club of Montreal, Steinway Hall (London), V&A Museum (London), Britten Theatre (London), CBSO Centre (Birmingham), Bulgaria Hall (Sofia), Beckley’s Hall (Novi Sad), MNAC (Barcelona) and CosmoCaixa (Barcelona).

Laura performed at festivals such as NAK (Pamplona), Dansàneu (Pyrenees), Festival de piano ‘Abbaye de Saint-Savin et Vallée des Fresques’ (Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe), Classical:NEXT (Berlin), FiraB (Mallorca), Flatpack Film Festival: Soundscreen (Birmingham) and the ‘Ligeti in Wonderland’ Festival (London) curated by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
Laura 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; and performed with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Court-Circuit (Paris) and International Contemporary
Ensemble (New York).

Her live performances were broadcasted on France 3, France Musique, BBC Radio 3, Sveriges Radio P2 (Stockholm), RTVE, TV3, Canal 33 and UER (Euroradio Top Young Performers Series). She also appeared on national and international media such as Brum Radio, Classic FM Radio, Bulgarian National Radio, Radio Filarmonía (Peru), BBC Music Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, International Piano Magazine, American radios KCME (Colorado Springs) and KALW (San Francisco), RAC1, iCat, Onda Cero and Cadena SER.

Laura worked with renowned composers including George Crumb, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy and Rebecca Saunders; and gave over 70 national and world premieres of works written by Unsuk Chin, Philippe Manoury, David Lang, George Lewis, Dai Fujikura, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Pierre Jodlowski, Vladimir Djambazov, Thierry Escaich, Ofer Ben-Amots and Tyshawn Sorey, among others.

Laura also commissioned and world-premiered three 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 feature 5 world-premiere recordings. Laura’s 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.