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Elisenda Fábregas (* 30 July 1955 in Terrassa/Province of Barcelona) is a Spanish pianist and composer.

Life

Elisenda Fábregas studied piano at the Barcelona Conservatory until 1978. In 1978, she came to the Juilliard School of Music as a Fulbright Scholar, where Beveridge Webster, Joseff Raieff and Samuel Sanders were among her teachers. After graduating in 1983, she pursued doctoral studies at Columbia University Teachers College. Her first compositions were written in 1985 for choreographers Jerome Robbins, Hector Zaraspe, Janet Soares and Anna Sokolow. In 1986 she was commissioned by Maria Benitez’s Spanish Dance Company to compose Reflexiones, which premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and was subsequently performed at the Joyce Theatre in New York and other venues in the USA, Canada and Europe.

Fábregas has also received commissions from the Orchestra of Santa Fe, the Dale Warland Singers, the Texas Music Teachers Association and numerous chamber ensembles and soloists. She composed Mirage for the Andrew Gurwitz Memorial Commission, which won best commissioned work when performed by Roger Wright at the 1997 San Antonio International Competition. At New York’s Mercin Hall in 1998, the piece was performed by the gold medal winner of the San Antonio International Piano Competition, Mi-Jung Im. At the Music Teachers National Association Convention in Washington in 2001, she was awarded the Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year Award for the piano work Portraits I, which was played by Roger Wright at the award ceremony.

As a pianist, Fábregas has performed in Spain, England, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and the USA. She has given concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Joyce Theater in New York, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the Place Theater in London, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona and the Manuel de Falla International Festival in Granada, among others.
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