With several international concert tours this year, Laura Granero is one of Europe’s most active fortepiano performers. Inspired by the models of performers of the past, she combines a multi-instrumental profile (fortepiano, harpsichord, piano) with the regular practice of tasks such as transcription, improvisation, and composition. As a researcher, she specialises in 19th-century performance practice. She is particularly interested in the piano school of Clara Schumann, historical recordings, and piano rolls, as well as the exploration of vocality at the (forte)piano. As a performer-researcher, she aims to bring to her playing the same sense of freedom that is to be found in the first recording artists. Laura is particularly committed to the visibility of women performers and composers of the past. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of the FANNY DAVIES Ensemble, awarded winner with three prizes at the International van Wassenaer Competition of the Early Music Festival in Utrecht in its cello-fortepiano version with Javier López-Escalona.  

After studying piano in Spain with Claudio Martínez-Mehner and Nino Kereselidze, Laura was admitted to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, graduating in 2016 and 2018 with honours in the class of Edoardo Torbianelli (fortepiano). Parallelly, she studied harpsichord with Andrea Marcon and Francesco Corti. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies at the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), under the direction of Dr Clive Brown. The subject of her thesis is the study of the recordings and piano rolls of Clara Schumann’s pupils, in particular, of Fanny Davies.

Laura is an official Bösendorfer Artist. Through this collaboration, she has given numerous lectures and concerts using Disklavier technology, which allow us to listen to the great pianists and composers of the past to play their music (Debussy, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns, Granados…). She is laureate of the Fondation Royaumont.

She has been invited to give concerts at the Salle Colonne,  Salle Cortot, Helsinki Musikkitalo, Festival de Royaumont, Théatre aux Bouffes du Nord, Santander International Festival, Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, Fundación Juan March, Festival La Chaise Dieu, Festival de Royaumont, Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, Palacio Real in Madrid, among others. As a researcher and teacher, she has been invited to give lectures and fortepiano masterclasses at institutions such as Irvine University (California), University of Sydney, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Hochschule für Musik Basel, Universidad Autónoma de México, the Conservatories of Paris and Lyon… She has been guest professor of chamber music with fortepiano at the Master of the Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye in Saintes. She has recorded two discs to date, one on the fortepiano works of the Portuguese composer João Domingos Bomtempo (“Com flores e louros”) and the other one featuring pieces by Chopin, as well as a live improvisation on a Czerny nocturne (“Dans un salon de la Nouvelle Athènes”, Son an Ero).

In 2023, she has been touring with Anima Eterna with a Clara Schumann project (Concertgebouw Brugge, Musis Arnhem…), recording the Robert Schumann concerto Opus 54 and the Clara Schumann Trio Opus 17. She is also the Co-Artistic Director of La Nouvelle Athènes in Paris, a project . During the Covid-19 lockdown, they organised numerous round-tables on 19th century performance-practice topics, which were attended by hundreds of musicians and music lovers around the world. Last November, they have organised a Symposium for the anniversary of the death of Pau Casals, reflecting on Modernism vs. Romanticism.