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Elisenda Fábregas, Biography
Elisenda Fábregas (b. July 30, 1955, Terrasa, Barcelona), is a composer and pianist living in the U.S. since 1978, when a postdoctoral Fulbright grant brought her to The Juilliard School; she subsequently earned another doctorate in music at Columbia University.
Fábregas began composing at The Juilliard School in 1985, working with several dance companies and choreographers in New York City, including Jerome Robbins, Hector Zaraspe, Janet Soares and Anna Sokolow. In 1986, The Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Company commissioned her to write Reflexiones for solo piano, which was premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. followed by the Joyce Theater in New York and by numerous performances throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Her works have been commissioned by the Orchestra of Santa Fe, the San Antonio International Piano Competition, Texas Music Teachers Association, Dale Warland Singers, Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Co., and by numerous chamber groups and soloists including the Meininger-Trio, Gray/Kobayashi Duo, Eric Himy, and Rachel Rosales. Fábregas's music has been heard in Mexico, Canada, Spain, Australia, Switzerland, France, Italy, The Czech Republic, Ireland, South Africa, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, China and the U.S. (including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., Merkin Concert Hall and The Joyce Theater in New York City), The 1995 United Nations Conference in Beijing, China, 2003 and 2004 Bodensee International Music Festivaland 2005 Sanssouci Musikfestpiele Potsdam both in Germany, and "Around New York", WQXR-FM "New York Spotlight", SWR (Germany), and the Voice of America. A highlight of the 2006 concert season includes Hommmage a Mozart, a solo piano work commissioned by Eric Himy in honor of the 250th an niversary of Mozart's birth in 2006, which will be premiered by Eric Himy at the Salle Cortot in Paris on May 24, 2006, including a Radio-France interview with Jean Michel Damian. Other performances by Himy will take place at the Norris Arts Center in Chicago, the Lukas Foss Summer Festival, Les Moments Musicaux de Notre Dame in Marseille, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada, KWCMSChamber Music Series, Concert Theatre des Varietes de Monaco, Fitzgerald Theater in Rockville, MD, Soirees Musicales in Dayton, OH, as well as other concerts in Utah, New York, Florida, Georgia, and Washington D.C.
In a concert of her vocal works in New York City, James Oestreich, critic for The New York Times stated that "[Fábregas] writes with an imaginatively colored tonal idiom".
In 2000, Elisenda received the Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year Award from the Music Teachers National Association in Washington D.C. Fábregas's music is published by Alphonse Leduc & Cie., Friedrich Hofmeister MusikVerlag Leipzig, Southern Music Co., and Hidden Oaks Music Company. Recordings of her music are available on the PROFIL EDITION Guenter Haenssler, Eloquence label (ABC Classics)Centaur Records, and Leonarda Productions.
As a pianist, she has performed throughout the Spain, England, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States, appearing in Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, and The Joyce Theater in New York City, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., The United Nations Conference in Beijing, The Place Theater in London, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, and the Manuel de Falla International Festival in Granada, Spain.
In her New York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall she was praised by Tim Page of The New York Times as having "... fluid technique and a poet's command of musical shading." She has also performed live on WQXR-FM "New York Spotlight", WNYC-FM "Around New York", and the Voice of America.
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