Laia Martín
Laia Martín, pianist interested in performance, research, management, and education, she has developed her artistic career and completed studies in various areas of music. She has completed a PhD in Music Performance with honours at the Aveiro University, Portugal, under the guidance of Luca Chiantore.
She completed her Bachelor’s degree in piano at the Liceu Conservatory of Music in Barcelona with Stanislav Pochekin. She finished a Master in Musical Performance degree with honours at the Conservatory F. Venezze in Rovigo, Italy, with Massimiliano Mainolfi and Oxana Yablonskaya, and a Master in Music Research degree at the Valencia International University.
She performed her first recital for Jeunesses Musicales Spain. Since then, she has performed in several halls in Spain, as well as in Germany, Italy, France, Andorra, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece and Israel, both as a soloist and in chamber music. She has also participated in conferences in Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, France, and Spain. She has published several articles.
She has recently published two CD for Naxos: “Catalan Cello Works” with cellist Dmitry Yablonsky and “Violin Catalan Works” with violinist Janna Gandelman. She has also published the CD “Without distances: a performative proposal regarding the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti transcribed by Enrique Granados” and “Cerdanya: obres per a piano”.
She is piano teacher at the Issi Fabra Music School in Puigcerdá and at the Conservatori de música dels Pirineus. She is music history professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and research techniques professor at the Escuela de Música de Alto Rendimiento de Valencia. She is a collaborator of the research group “Texting Scarlatti: composition, reception, performance” led by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama of London.
She is one of the directors of the Puigcerdá Music Festival and in 2022 she started the project Vespres Musicals de Santa Cecília de Bolvir. Since 2019 she is the director of the Conference on Artistic Research in Music of the Pyrenees.