§ 00 · Biography
Guillermo Laporta is a flautist, composer and cultural manager, recognised for integrating music, theatre, dance and video into staged works that explore the concept of the visual concert. He trained at the Royal College of Music in London (Bachelor and Master), at Musikene, and earned a Master's in Arts Management from the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. His teachers include Jaime Martín, Sue Thomas, Paul Edmund-Davies and Miguel Ángel Angulo. He was co-principal flute of Oviedo Filarmonía between 2009 and 2012 and has performed under conductors such as Roger Norrington and Vladimir Ashkenazy on international stages, among them Carnegie Hall (New York). In 2013 he founded CreArtBox, of which he is executive director, and in 2020 he created Festival ADAR, dedicated to bringing classical music to the rural communities of Asturias. As a composer, his works include Awave (2018–2019) and Architecture of a Common Man (2023). His work has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and has been reviewed in The New Yorker and El País.