Gabriela Lena Frank

Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972 in Berkeley, California) is an American composer and pianist.

Life

Gabriela Lena Frank attended Berkeley High School and studied at Rice University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Your composition teachers were William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Samuel Jones, her piano teacher Jeanne Kierman Fischer and Logan Skelton.

Your Three Latin American Dances in 2004 premiered by the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart and incorporated in 2006. Robert Gardner sang in 2004 accompanied by Molly Morkowski their songs Songs of Cifar and The Sweet Sea at Carnegie Hall. That same year, Leone Buyse played with the Shepherd Symphony Orchestra, the premiere of her tone poem for flute and orchestra Illapa. The following year, the first performances of Manchay Tiempo by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inkarrí found by the Kronos Quartet, Ghosts in the Dream Machine by the Chiara Quartet with pianist Simone Dinnerstein and her flute concert by the Orquestra Sinfonica da Bahia and the flautist Lucas Robatto in Brazil instead.

Frank's participation in the Latina Letters Cnference in San Antonio led to the collaboration with the South American poets Lorna Dee Cervantes, Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. and Pat Mora. In 2009 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Inca Danzas she won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

As a pianist Frank took on the complete works for solo piano and violin and piano by Leslie Bassett, playing the world premiere of her works dedicated to Evan Chambers ' Richard Lavendas and Andrew Meads. With the ethnomusicologist Raul Romero she developed a collection of recordings of the piano works of indigenous composers from Peru.