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Gabriela Lena Frank (* 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. Her composition teachers were William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty and Samuel Jones, her piano teacher Jeanne Kierman Fischer and Logan Skelton.

Her Three Latin American Dances were premiered in 2004 by the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart and recorded in 2006. Robert Gardner, accompanied by Molly Morkowski, sang her songs Songs of Cifar and The Sweet Sea at Carnegie Hall in 2004. In the same year, Leone Buyse gave the world premiere of her tone poem for flute and orchestra Illapa with the Shepherd Symphony Orchestra. The following year saw the world premieres of Manchay Tiempo by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inkarrí by the Kronos Quartet, Ghosts in the Dream Machine by the Chiara Quartet with pianist Simone Dinnerstein and her Flute Concerto by the Orquestra Sinfonica da Bahía and flutist Lucas Robatto in Brazil.

Frank’s participation in the Latina Letters Cnference in San Antonio led to collaborations with South American poets Lorna Dee Cervantes, Trinidad Sánchez, Jr. and Pat Mora. In 2009, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and with Inca Danzas she won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. For 2020, she was awarded the Heinz Award for Culture.

As a pianist, Frank recorded the complete works for solo piano and piano and violin by Leslie Bassett and premiered works dedicated to her by Evan Chambers, Richard Lavenda and Andrew Mead. With the ethnomusicologist Raul Romero, she compiled a collection of recordings of the piano works of indigenous composers from Peru.

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