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ELISENDA FÁBREGAS

Catalan/American composer Elisenda Fábregas is based in Seoul, South Korea, where she is an Invited professor of music at Kyung-Hee University Humanitas College. She holds doctorates from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in music composition (2011), and from Columbia University Teachers College in education (1992); she also received a Masters and Bachelors in piano performance from The Juilliard School (1983). Before coming to the US, she completed the highest studies as a pianist in Barcelona. During her early career, Elisenda performed as a pianist throughout Europe and the US, including a Carnegie Recital Hall debut in New York. These experiences as a performer and the training involved ultimately propelled her towards musical composition.

PERFORMANCES & NEWS

This Spring 2019 (March, April and May) four of my compositions (song cycle, solo cello, solo piano, and chamber ensemble) will be performed in the USA and Europe (Barcelona, British Colombia, Norway and Iceland). Recently, two works were recorded (Mirage for piano, and Imitacio del foc for tenor & piano) and will appear on forthcoming CDs. In addition, my Symphony #1 for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, recorded two years ago by the Barcelona Symphonic Ensemble (Banda Municipal de Barcelona) will finally come out on the Naxos CD label. Below are details on these performances/news.

Upcoming performances of Imitació del Foc (Imitation of Fire) for tenor and piano will take place as follows: February 15: St. Stephen’s Concert Series in Wilmington, DE; February 24: Furman University in NC; Feb 26: Newberry College in SC; and Feb 28: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC. This work is being championed by Jess Muñoz, tenor, and pianist Oksana Glouchko, commissioners of this work with generous support from a University of Delaware General University Research Grant. Imitacio del foc was recorded this past August with producer/engineer Andreas Meyer and will be part of an album featuring 24 Art Songs by Catalan Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Imitació del Foc (Imitation of Fire) for tenor & piano received its premiered on March 12, 2018, at the University of Delaware in a program dedicated to Catalonian and Latin American women composers. Imitació del Foc is based on poetry by Mallorquin poet Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel (1913-1938). It includes four poems: I. Inici de campana (Quadern de sonets); II.Escolto la secreta… (from Imitacio del Foc, ‘Arbre de Flames’); III. Pluja brodada (Imitacio del foc, ‘Fira encesa’); and IV. Ardent himne (Imitacio del foc, ‘Arbre de Flames’).

Roger Morello Ròs, a young talented cellist from Reus, Spain, will perform Homenatge a Pau Casals for solo cello at the famed Gaudi building Casa Mila (La Pedrera) in Barcelona on March 17, 2019. Roger Morello Ros is a Resident Artist 2018/19 at Casa Mila in Barcelona). He has performed throughout Europe in festivals such as Musethica International Chamber Music Festival Berlin 2018, Aurora Winter Classic Festival 2016 in Sweden and Echo Festival 2016 in Italy, and in concert halls like Philarmonie Berlin, Pau Casals Auditorium and Josep Carreras Auditorium, among others. He is the winner of top competitions and has studied at Cologne University of Music (Germany). This October he will do his debut at Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona).

Pianist Becky Billock recently recorded Mirage for piano in a CD that included works inspired by nature by Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Henry Cowell, Edvard Grieg, Karen Tanaka, Bonnie McLarty, Elisenda Fabregas, Patrick Burke, Germaine Tailleferre, Robert Schultz, Katherine Hoover, Gwyneth Walker, and Kaja Bjørntvedt. More program details. Becky will perform Mirage in her upcoming tour in the US and also in Iceland and Norway. Dates/locations: March 8, Portland, OR; March 9, Salem, OR; March 10, Olympia, WA; March 11, Sequim; March 12, Sidney, B.C; March 14 Abbotsford, BC; March 16, Seattle, WA; March 16 Bellingham; April 22, Riverside, CA; April 28 Pittsburgh, PA; May 10, Reykjavik, Iceland; ; May 12, Oslo concert. More details and links on these concerts.

Resident musicians from Portland’s 240 Strings joined by resident musicians from New Haven’s Music Haven and flutist Nicole Rabata will performed Portraits II for flute, violin, cello and piano on March 1 at Mechanics’ Hall, in Maine.

Portraits II will be performed again on March 2 by the same performers including pianist Anastasia Antonacos at Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham Campus in the University of Southern Maine (USM) Concert Series.