Laura Corolla spends her life doing what she loves and considers herself extraordinarily fortunate. It began in Aosta, a small mountain town in northern Italy — a place she was eager to leave. She wanted to study the piano, but there was no place for her available at the time, so they handed her a violin instead. Year after year, the violin stayed. And she stayed with it.

Her path led to the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan, where she graduated with top marks in 1995. There, a decisive encounter changed everything: Laura heard the sound of a baroque violin for the first time. And she was immediately hooked. Studies with Enrico Gatti, Giorgio Mangiocavallo, followed by further training at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ((academy and research centre for early music and historically informed performance in Basel, Switzerland) with Chiara Banchini, drew her ever deeper into the world of early music — a commitment she has never once questioned. Since then, the Baroque violin, with gut strings and historical set-up, has been her natural voice.

Laura has performed as principal violin / concert master?? and ensemble member and soloist? with orchestras and ensembles at the forefront of the early music profession. As a concert master Laura leads with calm, nuanced authority,  preparing meticulously, and translating historical awareness, academic insights and structural understanding of the score into clear, supportive guidance.

Cappella Mediterranea, Le Palais Royal, Ensemble Baroque de Nice, the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles and Le Concert de la Loge are among her closest collaborators. She also performs regularly with leading early-music ensembles including Europa Galante, Il Pomo d’Oro, Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, Accademia Bizantina, Hofkapelle München, Le Caravansérail, Les Accents, Ensemble Artaserse, Orfeo 55 and Ensemble Norde — a musical world that, in many ways, she considers home.

Away from the orchestras, Laura’s curiosity keeps pulling her towards new musical spaces — from her solo programmes to Duo Kaserne with experimental guitarist Alessandra Novaga, a project built around music composed specifically for them, and where early music purity meets contemporary sound.

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