Born in Madrid in 1991, Laura Fernández Granero started studying piano at the age of seven at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música “Arturo Soria” (Madrid) with the harpsichordist and fortepianist Tony Millán. She later studied with Nino Kereselidze at the Centro de Enseñanza Musical “Katarina Gurska” and graduated in 2008 with the highest grades. Later she studied BMus in Piano with Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón in Zaragoza and at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid. She has attended piano and chamber music masterclasses by Eldar Nebolsin, Alexander Kandelaki, Miriam Gómez Morán, Patrín García Barredo, Ramón Coll, Josep Colom, Blanca Uribe, Miguel Ángel Ortega Chavaldas, Tibor Szász, András Kemenes, Cuarteto Quiroga, Prazak Quartet, Talich Quartet, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, among others.
A deeper interest in historical performance brought her to study harpsichord at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León in Salamanca, with Professors Pilar Montoya and Jorge García Martín. She has attended masterclasses with Bertrand Cuiller, Luca Guglielmi, Artur Schoonderwoerd, Jacques Ogg, Maggie Cole, Robert Levin, Amandine Beyer, Malcolm Bilson, Jos van Immerseel, Pierre Hantai, among others.
After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Fortepiano with honours in the class of Edoardo Torbianelli at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2016, she started studying for her Master’s degree in fortepiano at the same school. Also at the same school, she received lessons from Anton Kernjak, Jesper Christensen and Rainer Schmidt (chamber music), from Ulrich Messthaler (Lied accompaniment), and from Andreas Scholl, Evelyn Tubb, Anthony Rooley, Amandine Beyer, and Marc Hantaï.
She has given solo and chamber music recitals both in Spain and abroad, in concert halls such as the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, Auditorio Conde Duque (Madrid), Arnold Schönberg Center (Vienna), Sala de la Fuente Dorada (Valladolid, Spain), Schloss Reichenau, the Tagliavini Collection (Bologna), Fondation Royaumont, Museum für Musik Basel, Saintes Abbey (France), Sammlung alter Klavierinstrumente im Haus “zum Schönek” (Basel), and at the Grote Zaal of the Tivoli Vredenburg, the Museum Catharijneconvent and the Stadsklooster in Utrecht.
She is a member of the Ensemble La Guirlande ( www.laguirlande.com ), under the artistic direction of the flutist Luis Martínez Pueyo. Laura is, alongside with violinist Ajay Ranganathan, one of the first laureates of the Fondation Royaumont, gaining the opportunity to record for France Musique in October 2015. The Portuguese composer César Viana wrote and dedicated his piece “Ist gerettet” (2016) to her and Ajay.
She is the artistic director of the Proyecto Notre Temps, which aims at promoting the presence of the fortepiano in the Iberian Peninsula, through activities such as concerts, conferences and masterclasses in several halls and conservatories.