A versatile pianist with over 15 years of experience, including teaching and performing a variety of repertoire for chamber music, collaborative, orchestral and choral appointments. Native from Caracas, Venezuela, she belonged to the most important musical institutions at her country. She held the piano principal position at Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra, highlighted from UNESCO´s awarded orchestra network “El Sistema”. Laura has partnered with the “Orquesta Barroca Simón Bolívar”, “Orquesta de Cámara Mozarteum Caracas”, “Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional de Venezuela”, “Orquesta Juvenil de Caracas”, “Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela”, “Schola Cantorum de Venezuela”, and performed at the most prestigious venues in Asia, Europe, and The Americas, under the baton of grammy award winning artist, and “Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra” music director Gustavo Dudamel, the chief conductor for the “Stavanger Symphony Orchestra” Christian Vazquez, the principal conductor from “Teatro La Fenice” Diego Matheuz,and Grammy nominated, International Federation for Choral Music Vice President and former UNESCO International Music Council Board member María Guinand.

​            She has performed at top festivals and musical residences like, American Choral Directors Association Conference, Choralies, Polyfollia, White Light Festival by Lincoln Center, “Festival delle Orchestre Internazionali per Expo” Teatro alla Scala Milano, "El Sistema" Residenz - Salzburger Festpiele,  and venues such as the Royal Symphony Hall of London Southbank Centre, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Toulouse Halle aux Grains, Stavanger Konserthus, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Concert Hall and Shanghai Symphony Hall.

​            Laura holds degrees from the Juan Jose Landaeta Conservatory, Central University of Venezuela (Bachelor in Social Psychology) and a Master of Music from the Simon Bolivar University. She is currently a second year piano performance and pedagogy graduate student at Ohio University School of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Christopher Fisher. She has studied piano with Carlos Urbaneja, Elizabeth Guerrero and Abraham Abreu; harpsichord with Rubén Guzmán and Bruno Procopio. She has participated in harpsichord master classes with Jacques Ogg, Ketil Haugsand and Alessandro Santoro, and piano master classes with Rachel Kudo, Michael Chertock, Vadym Kholodenko, Manuel Laufer, Edith Peña, Kristiina Junttu, Laura Mikkola, Michel Beroff, Prisca Benoit, Roger Muraro, Gabriela Montero, Carlos Duarte, Walter Blankenheim, Frank Fernández and Judith Jaimes.

​            As part of her teaching at Mozarteum Caracas Music School, Laura created an innovative Piano Ensembles project in 2014. After she moved in Athens, Ohio in 2017, she has continued developing this work for the Athens Community School of Music along with the MTNA Collegiate Chapter of Ohio University. The project offers the opportunity to young pianists to perform master pieces of orchestral repertoire with percussion as an ensemble. Also, it is a place for assistant piano teachers to get training of conducting rehearsals and concerts of this kind. Laura has arranged music for one to four pianos, one or more pianists by piano, at different levels of proficiency. Piano Ensemble with performance goals has also being thought to promote team work, reinforce musical concepts, gives students the opportunity of being part of bigger musical events, and takes care of their psychological evolution as musicians, by getting them used to perform for their peers and percussionists at the final concerts. Laura directed a documentary that was presented on Venezuelan National TV in 2016, and it is available on YouTube and Vimeo. The project has been presented at OMTA Conference 2017, MTNA Collegiate Chapters Piano Pedagogy Symposium 2018, MTNA National Conference 2018 and Ohio University Piano Pedagogy Seminar 2018. Two of her elementary level arrangements “Old MacDonald had a farm” and “Ode to Joy” have been inspired and published by Piano Safari in 2018.

              Laura holds a graduate teaching assistantship at OU School of Music as a piano group instructor for music-major college students, and a collaborative pianist of University Singers and Choral Union. She is also a private piano instructor at ACMS, and a collaborative pianist for college and graduate students. Last Summer she was the pianist of the Summer Music Theater Summer Camp, as well as instructor for Piano Safari and Piano Ensembles classes at the ACMS Summer Week.