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 and with the thesis "Without distances: a performative proposal regarding the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti transcribed by Enrique Granados".

 

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 with instrumentalists such as Xisca Asensio, Jordán Tejedor, Victor Ferragut, Jonaina Salvador, Marc Pons, Janna Gandelman, Dmitry Yablonsky... She has also participated in conferences in Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, France, and Spain. She has published several articles on the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti transcribed by Enrique Granados. In December 2023 she published the CD "Catalan Cello Works" with cellist Dmitry Yablonsky and in July she will release the CD "Violin Catalan Works" with violinist Janna Gandelman, both for Naxos. 

 

Her specialization in artistic research after his doctoral studies has led her to develop as a performer such personal projects as "Tibles, tenores and flabiols: intermixing soundscapes in the Cerdaña suite by Déodat de Séverac" and to give seminars on this subject at centers such as the Ramat Gan Music Center (Israel), the Escuela Superior de Alto Rendimiento de Valencia (ESMAR) or the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito in Parma (Italy). 

 

She is piano teacher at the Issi Fabra Music School in Puigcerdá and at the Conservatori de música dels Pirineus. She is music history teacher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She is a collaborator of the research group “Texting Scarlatti: composition, reception, performance” led by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama of London. Between 2019 and 2023 she has been piano professor and co-director of the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute in Spain, Bulgaria, Israel, and the United States. 

 

Since 2013 she is one of the directors of the Puigcerdá Music Festival and in 2022 she starts 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. Together with Mari Carmen Fuentes she is one of the founders and hosts of the +Q INTéRPRETES YouTube talk-show.