Biography

Laura Piras specialises in the performance of 17th and 18th century works on historical flutes. She studied for a M.A. in Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music with Rachel Brown and Lisa Beznosiuk, graduating with Distinction and winning the prestigious Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize.

Laura has performed with the Parley of Instruments, the London Baroque Sinfonia, the International Baroque Soloists and the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and recently made her Wigmore Hall debut. She has taken part in projects directed by Pavlo Beznosiuk, Margaret Faultless, Lisa Beznosiuk, Laurence Cummings and Nicolette Moonen. She has also regularly performed as a soloist in the RAM/Kohn Bach Cantata Series directed by Iain Ledingham, including a concert directed by John Butt.

Before specialising in historical performance Laura received a M.Mus and a B.A. (Hons) on modern flute from the University of East Anglia, where she was awarded four major performance scholarships from the school which enabled her to receive flute lessons from William Sleath and Paul-Edmund Davies. Laura performed two concertos with the UEA Symphony Orchestra: Khachaturian's Flute Concerto in Norwich Cathedral and Vivaldi's Piccolo Concerto RV 443. On graduating she was awarded the Dorothea and Rowan Hare Young Musicians Concert, a prize awarded to one UEA music graduate per year.

Laura also teaches flute privately and for the University of East Anglia.