Guillermo Laporta is a New York City-based flutist, designer, director, and producer. He is currently the executive and artistic director of CreArtBox. His work present wide-ranging multidisciplinary connections between music and other art
forms.
"Criticks Picks Two Roads" (New Yorker)
"a new ensemble devoted to multidisciplinary events makes its debut with a concert designed by flutist Guillermo Laporta" (Time Out)
"a schocking staging" (El Pais)
"you should check out this amazing presentation of Guillermo Laporta’s AWAVE" (Times Ledger)
"a unique take on classical music" (Times Ledger)
"impeccable sound design by Guillermo Laporta" (Mozvr)
"Guillermo Laporta knows how to design for a festival" (Theasy)
"an explosion of rhythm, color and sensitivity" (El Diario del Alto Aragon)
Directed by Guillermo Laporta and Josefina Urraca, the remarkable production (VISUALITY) fuses together a variety of art forms to create a wholly authentic, visually and aurally compelling experience" (Broadway World)
“a full scale set design and a unique visual approach” (I care if you Listen)
We are who we are, and we are where we are because of the infinite decisions we have made in our past. With this premise, Two Roads scrutinizes the genesis of these choices, exploring the root of our consciences tied to our family, and the
conscious and unconscious decisions that we make constantly, including addiction and routines, balance, guilt, and love.
Guillermo Laporta’s Awave blends years of opera, symphonic and chamber music performances with multimedia sound design and sound track composition. The performance presents a collection of pieces written for VR experiences, theatrical
sound design and video games. It also features the world premiere of 10 new pieces for flute, piano and electronics.
Venues: DiMenna Center, NY Ethical Culture & Greenwich House
Running since September 2016 in Manhattan, this music series presents classical chamber music with new pieces by living composers and visual artists, collaborating with renowed artist such us violinist Todd Reynolds, composer and video artist,
Luke DuBois, or LeTrain Bleu Ensemble.
This CD, with its ardor for the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, reimagines the music for violin and piano of Claude Debussy and Ottorino Respighi, expanding it into the repertoire of the modern flute. The recordign was made
in the Summer of 2016 at Oktaven Studios, New York City.
Visuality is a full-scale music and theater production which develops a narrative inspired by studies by Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers where a psychoanalyst, explores the deepest thoughts of his mind through music, poetry, and observation.
Written by Guillermo Laporta and Jacopo Rampini and choreographed by Marissa Maislen, this production, fuses the music of Sebastian Currier, Joshua Penman, Debussy, Paul Moravec, Jacob TV, Joan Tower, Marcos Fernandez, and Frederic Rzewski.
The main chracter, Dr. Reyn narrate a meditation on a human mental exploration. Gradually discovering his own bipolar disorder exposing his self-consciousness in the physical universe and unveiling complex, mysterious, visceral stories that
outcrop beyond the reality.
Dr. Reyn inner mind is reflected in the commutable set design where cubes surround the scene, the musicians and the audience, utilizing video mapping techniques to bring to life this captivating world.
An opera commissioned by Cre.Art Project during the artist residency program in Oviedo Asturias. Co-produced by Cre.Art Project, Audiencia Theater, Barakaldo Theater and San Francisco Concert Hall.
A musical theater production with more the 100 artists involved. Combining cinema and live theater with live jazz, drum & bass, indian, classical music, contemporary dance, acrobats, video mapping and narrative. A show that makes the city of
London, its frenetic pace and its people from all over the world, their common thread. Cinema, theater, ance, circus and live music come together in this show with 18 artists on stage.
As One is a chamber opera composed by Laura Kaminsky with a libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed, and is a coming-of-age story about a transgender woman.
Venue: International Fringe Festival, 14th Street Y Theater, New York
Based on the real life events of Operación Pedro Pan, a young boy, Pedro, is sent alone to the U.S. to escape the dangers of 1962 Havana, Cuba. Once in NYC, Pedro must face learning a new language, a new culture, and a new country without the
support of his parents.
CreArtBox collaborated with the Arte String Quartet to present a program based around Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
Awave Within
Role: Flutist, light and projection designer
Type: Chamber Music Concert
CreArt Music Festival, 2018
Role: Founder, art. director & designer
Venue: Plaxall Gallery
A Classical Music Festival lanunched in Long Island City, Queens. Presented by CreArtBox, the festival merges classical chamber music with contemporary dance, theater, and immersive sound, light and projection design. In collaboration with
Long Island City Artists (LiC-A) @ The Plaxall Gallery and supported by the Queens Council on the Arts
CreArtBox’s classical music festival heads to Long Island City" QNS Magazine
An journey through science, technology, food and nature.
Evergreen
Role: Projection & Set Designer
Venue: City Playhouse Theatre, Toronto
Evergreen has a pressing and compelling rhythm, a good mix of professionals, among whom two young dancers, who captivated the nearly 3,000 students, and their teachers and parents, from beginning to end. No distractions, attentive eyes,their
breaths held tight, all children were fully enraptured and fascinated by the modern scenery, the stunning 3D projections, the choreography and the songs of the musical.
Inspirit
Type: Virtual Reality
Role: Composer & Sound designer
INSPIRIT may seem to be a story about light, but it is really more about people. People who enlighten us and complete us; because I like to think that there are people whose presence lights us up inside.
Selected by Google as WebGL VR experience at Chrome Experiments.
Highlighted by Mozilla as one of the first VR featured projects for the web.
Honored with a FWA Site of the day Award ( Our 2nd FWA SOTD Award in a week with Iberia - Flying the world )
Puzzle Rain is a musical journey published for HTC Vive headset in collaboration with the Mozilla FOundation and Unboring Studio. Which you help awaken and guide mythical creatures back together into happy musical harmony with one another.
Only their combined musical chorus can summon life-giving rain to revive the parched and desolate landscape. Though, there isn’t much time. Dangerous predators roam!
"impeccable sound design by Guillermo Laporta" (Mozilla Blog)
“Boogie Stomp! the Musical ” tells the largely untold tale of American piano music from its origins at the end of the Civil War through to today. Essentially a music to dance to, and encompassing many forms.
SJ Performing Art Department
Type: Talent Show
Role: Co-founder and faculty
The Performing Arts program includes courses and extracurricular opportunities that recognize students as artists with individual strengths to be celebrated in a collaborative environment.
