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Elisenda Fabregas

Spanish-American composer Elisenda Fábregas has been praised for writing with an “imaginatively colored… idiom” (The New York Times) and for possessing an “individuality [which] shows through in yearning dissonances, quirky juxtapositions of thematic material and a pervasive sensuality not unlike that of her native Barcelona” (San Antonio Express News).
Fabregas earned a doctor of musical arts degree from the Barcelona Conservatory in 1978. She subsequently came to the United States on a Fulbright grant to study piano at The Juilliard School with Beveridge Webster, Joseff Raieff and Samuel Sanders, and received a bachelors and masters degree in 1983. She later earned a doctorate in music from Columbia University Teachers College in 1992. Elisenda has performed in Spain, England, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and throughout the U.S. including Carnegie Recital Hall. Alica Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the Joyce Theater in New York City, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the United Nations Conference in Beijing, The Place Theater in London, Palau de la Míºsica Catalana in Barcelona, and the Manuel de Falla International Festival in Granada, Spain. In her New York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall she was praised by Tim Page of The New York Times as having "... fluid technique and a poet's command of musical shading." She has also performed live on WQXR-FM "New York Spotlight", WNYC-FM "Around New York", the Voice of America, and recorded live for National Public Radio "Performance Today."

Elisenda Fábregas started composing in 1985 when she worked with several dance companies and choreographers in New York City, including Jerome Robbins, Hector Zaraspe, Janet Soares and Anna Sokolow. In 1986, The Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Company commissioned her to write Reflexiones for solo piano, which was premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. followed by the Joyce Theater in New York and by numerous performances throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Fábregas music has been heard throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Spain, Australia, The Czech Republic, Ireland, Taiwan, China, London and Japan, and has been performed live on WQXR-FM "New York Spotlight", WNYC-FM "Around New York" and the Voice of America.

Her works have been commissioned and performed by the Orchestra of Santa Fe, the Dale Warland Singers, Texas Music Teachers Association, San Antonio International Piano Competition, and by numerous chamber groups and soloists. In 1995, she performed her flute Sonata at the UN Conference on Womens Rights in Beijing, China, and her violin Sonatas in a two-week concert tour in Barcelona, Spain. Other performances include the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.; Merking Hall in New York; International Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University in Pennsylvania; the Mostly Women Composers Festival in New York City; the National Flute Convention in New York City; the Derriere Guard Festival in Chicago; the National Conference of the Society of Composers Inc, in Florida International University, Miami; the Eleventh International Congress for Women in Music in London; Bowling Green New Music Festival in Bowling Green State University, and guest artist performances in universities such as Kent State University, OH, University of Illinois at Normal, and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.