Laura Puerto

Laura Puerto holds a Master's degree in Musicology, music education and early music performance from the UAB/ESMUC. She holds the Superior Title of harpsichord with the End of Degree Award. She later specialised in the performance of the Iberian two-order harp with Nuria Llopis, developing a growing research and performance work on this instrument and its repertoire, as well as on the interrelation in performance criteria between the harp and keyboard instruments in the Spanish Renaissance.
She has completed the advanced training course of the doctoral programme in music at the University of Aveiro. She is currently a doctoral student at the Complutense University of Madrid.
She is a founding member of the duo "Las Arpas Sonorosas" together with Manuel Vilas. This duo of Iberian harps of two orders is unique in the world and is dedicated to the rescue of Iberian repertoire and the performance of polyphonic vocal music intabulations.
Puerto has an intense concert activity, performing in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala, Brazil, dedicating herself to both the ancient repertoire and contemporary music, performing numerous premieres.
Among the groups with which she regularly collaborates are La Bellemont, Los Afectos Diversos, Raquel Andueza & La Galanía, La Hispanoflamenca, La Danserye, Hippocampus, La Dispersione, Estil Concertant, among others.
She has made numerous recordings, television and radio, including the CDs La Voix de la Viole and Plaisir Sacré, recorded with her ensemble La Bellemont. These have obtained excellent distinctions from the Spanish and foreign specialised press, such as the 5 diapasons from the magazine Diapason, 4 stars from the magazine Classica, "exceptional disc" from the magazine Scherzo, Melómano de Oro from the magazine Melómano, or "R" from Ritmo. Her first recording as a soloist dedicated to Antonio de Cabezón's glosada songs entitled "Ultimi miei Sospiri" is a good example of this new path she has taken as a harp and keyboard performer.
She has held the Chair of Harpsichord at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón. She is currently teaching in the Community of Madrid.