Elisenda Fábregas


Elisenda Fábregas is a Spanish/American Composer.

Biography

Fábregas studied piano at the Conservatory of Barcelona until 1978. She came to the USA and studied for her bachelor's and master's degree in piano performance at Juilliard School of Music with Beveridge Webster and Joseff Raieff and Samuel Sanders. She made her debut in the Carnegie Recital Hall in 1978.
She received doctorates from Columbia University Teachers College in education and Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in music composition.
As a pianist she performed besides in Spain, in various countries, England, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States.
In 2015 she lives in Seoul, South Korea, and is working as invited professor of music at Kyung Hee University.

Award

Fábregas received the Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year Award at the Music Teachers National Association Convention in Washington D.C. in 2001.

Works

Fábregas composed more than forty works for solo, chamber ensemble, vocal, chorus and orchestra. She composed several large-scale piano works like Mirage, Portraits I, Hommage for Mompou, and Hommage for Mozart.