VEGA, Laura

She was born in Gran Canaria, Spain, in 1978. She began her musical studies at the age of four, studying with Francisco Brito at the Music School of her native town. Later, she was accepted into the Conservatorio Superior de Música of Las Palmas, receiving composition lessons from Daniel Roca and Xavier Zoghbi. After graduating in piano, oboe and music theory, she pursued further studies with José Luis de Delás in the University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain) and with José Mª Sánchez Verdú in the Music School Soto Mesa (Madrid, Spain). In 2016 she completed her doctoral studies at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain).

Her catalogue has over eighty works. Her recording works appeared in labels such as Ibs Classical, Neos, Naxos, RALS, Piccolo, Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía, SGAE, Fundación Autor, etc. Amongst her orchestral woks, some outstanding highlights are the Concerto for oboe and two orchestal groups (commissioned by the Autor Foundation, SGAE and AEOS), "Imágenes de una isla" for orchestra and gomero whistle (commissioned by the Council of La Gomera), the concerto for piano and orchestra, In Paradisum (commisioned by the 26th Canary Islands International Music Festival), Pater noster for choir and string orchestra (an honourable mention from the 4th Sacred Music International Competition), "Angel of Light", double concerto for percussion, string orchestra and harp (commissioned by SGAE Foundation and AEOS), "Galdosiana" for orchestra (commisioned by the Canary Islands Youth Orchestra and Spanish National Orchestra) and "Light, Love and Ecstasy", concerto for guitar and orchestra (commissioned by the 39th Canary Islands International Music Festival). Her music has been performed by orchestras such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de Colombia, la Orquesta Nacional de España, la Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española, la Orquesta de Extremadura, la Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, la Orquesta de Córdoba, la Oviedo Filarmonía, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas, la Joven Orquesta de Canarias, among others. She has worked with conductors as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Michail Jurowski, Lü Jia, Pedro Halffter, Georg Fritzsch, Juanjo Mena, Antoni Ros-Marbà, François López-Ferrer, Carlos Miguel Prieto, José Luis Temes, Maxim Emelyanychev, Lucía Marín, Manuel Busto, Lucas Macías, Guillermo García Calvo, Andrés Salado, José Luis Gómez, Rafael Sánchez Araña, Jorge G. Cuenllas, among others.

From 2008 to 2011 she was chairwoman of the Las Palmas Composers Association (PROMUSCAN). She is teaching composition in the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias. From 2011 she has been member of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts (RACBA) adn from 2025 she has been member of the Academy of Music of Spain.