Laura Imola Mikkola (born 3 February 1974 in Helsinki) is a Finnish pianist.
Laura Mikkola, having previously won Pretoria's UNISA TRANSNET and Helsinki's Maj Lind competitions, and been awarded the XII Paloma O'Shea Competition's contemporary music prize and a grant prize, was second to Markus Groh at the XIII Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
There are a lot of CD recordings from different labels available (Naxos, ECM, BIS, René Gally, AEON, Cascavelle, and Outhere).
In 2020, she recorded the works of Svein Hundsnes and Légendes,[1] the first monographic CD of the French composer David Chaillou for the label Fuga Libera.
[2] She is also a leading interpreter of the piano works by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara.