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Gabriela Lena Frank

March 05, 2023

Gabriela Lena Frank (born Berkeley, California, United States, September 1972) is an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.

Biography

Gabriela Lena Frank's father is an American of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mother is Peruvian of Chinese descent. She grew up in Berkeley, California. Her parents met when her father was a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the 1960s.

Frank received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Rice University and a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan in 2001. She has studied composition with Paul Cooper, William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Samuel Jones.

Style

Frank's work often draws on her multicultural background, especially her mother's Peruvian heritage. In many of her compositions, she elicits the sounds of Latin American instruments such as Peruvian pan flute or charango guitar, although the works are typically scored for Western classical instruments and ensembles such as the symphony orchestra or string quartet. She has said, "I think the music can be seen as a by-product of my always trying to figure out how Latina I am and how gringa I am."[1] In recent years, compositional/philosophical links have been made to composers such as Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten, and Chou Wen-chung.[citation needed]

Professional life

Frank's music has been commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet, pipa virtuoso Wu Man, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Chanticleer Ensemble, the Chiara String Quartet, the Brentano Quartet, Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, the Marilyn Horne Foundation, guitarist Manuel Barrueco with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the King's Singers, directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Wu Han and David Finckel, soprano Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and others. She has received multiple commission from Carnegie Hall.[2] Her piece Concertino Cusqueño was commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra in celebration of the start of that organization's newest conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.[3] Past performances include those by the Boston Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella series. She has an upcoming commissioned premiere with The Cleveland Orchestra in May 2014 and another commissioned premiere with the Houston Symphony in September 2014.

She has served as composer-in-residence with many institutions including the Modesto Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Aspen Music Festival, the Seattle Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Between 2009 and 2012, she served as the Creative Advisor to her hometown orchestra, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under the baton of frequent collaborator Joana Carneiro before stepping down to spend more time composing.[4] Frank currently serves as composer-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, and the Houston Symphony under the baton of Andrés Orozco Estrada. She has been featured at many festivals around the world including Music@Menlo, Tanglewood Music Festival, SongFest and with the Chicago Chamber Players, among others.

2009 saw Frank receive her first Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Latin Grammy Award for best Contemporary Classical Music Composition for Inca Dances (Tonar Label), which was written for guitarist Manuel Barrueco and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. She was also the feature of her first PBS documentary entitled "Peregrinos" (produced by Emmy-winning producer Aric Hartvig) regarding her residency with the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra where, with an award from the Joyce Foundation, she composed a work inspired by the stories of Latino immigrants in Indianapolis.

In 2010 Frank won a United States Artists Fellow award.[5]

Gabriela Lena Frank is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble under the direction of cellist Yo Yo Ma. Her composition Ritmos Anchinos appears on the Silk Road Ensemble's album Off the Map (World Village & In a Circle Records, 2009). "Off the Map" was nominated for a 2011 Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album.

Also in 2011, Frank released a complete CD of her works, entitled "Hilos," on the Naxos label with the Nashville-based ALIAS Ensemble, featuring a new mixed quartet written expressly for ALIAS. In its first week of release, it broke into the Billboard's top 100 Classical Recordings and was subsequently awarded a rare "10/10" rating by Classics Today. "Hilos" was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award in the category of Best Small Ensemble Performance on which Frank plays piano.[6] It has received more than a dozen positive reviews.[7]

In 2012, Frank was sponsored by the US-Quito Embassy in Ecuador and small crowdsourced private donors through USA Artists to compose a new work for the Ecuadoran group La Orquesta de Instrumentos Andinos (Orchestra of Andean Instruments). The work, "Compadre Huashayo," is to be played entirely on indigenous instruments while drawing on a mix of modernist classical and traditional indigenous practices.[8] Once again, PBS profiled Frank in a documentary, likewise entitled "Compadre Huashayo" that was premiered in fall 2013.

In 2013, Frank received the Medal of Excellence from the Sphinx Organization for outstanding young Black and Latino leaders in classical music. She received her award in a ceremony at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., meeting Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Ginsburg.[9] Later that year, she released another CD of her chamber works with Meme Ensemble on the Albany Records label.

Frank is frequently performed by the Caminos del Inka collective under the direction of conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. She works closely with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz in the creation of original new musical works for voice. Their first collaboration was a set of orchestra songs for Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Frank is also a Grammy-nominated pianist. She has recorded the complete piano works of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Leslie Bassett on the Equilibrium label. Recent performances include those with current and former members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke's Orchestra, the Lydian Quartet, the Manhattan Quartet, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Frank is a freelance composer who left her native San Francisco Bay Area in the fall of 2015 to start a farm with her husband in the town of Boonville, California in Mendocino County. In 2017, she founded her own school, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (www.glfcam.com) for emerging composers to work with renowned performers. She travels frequently throughout North and South America. She is also often a guest artist at universities and conservatories, giving performances, lectures, and lessons.

In 2020, Dr. Frank received the 25th Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities for her work "weaving Latin American influences into classical constructs and breaking gender, disability and cultural barriers in classical music composition."[10]

Selected works

Orchestra

  • Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra (2017) Commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
  • Concertino Cusqueño (2012)
  • Elegía Andina (2000)
  • Escaramuza (2010)
  • Five Scenes (2015)
  • Karnavalingo (2013)
  • Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout (string orchestra) (2001)
  • Manchay Tiempo (Time of Fear) (2005)
  • Peregrinos (2009)
  • Raíces (2012)
  • Requiem for a Magical America: El Día de los Muertos (orchestral version) (2012)
  • Three Latin-American Dances for Orchestra (2003)
  • Two American Portraits (2008)
  • Two Peruvian Dances (for beginning string orchestra) (2015)
  • Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra (2016)

Soloist(s) and orchestra

  • La Centinela y la Paloma (The Keeper and the Dove) (2010) Soloist: Soprano
  • Compadrazgo (2007) Soloists: Piano, cello
  • Cuentos Errantes: Four New Folk Songs (2015) Soloist: Piano
  • Havana Jila (2003) Violin
  • Illapa: Tone Poem for Flute and Orchestra (2004) Soloist: Flute
  • Journey of the Shadow (2013) Soloist: Narrator
  • La Llorona: Tone Poem for Viola and Orchestra (2007) Soloist: Viola
  • Will-o’-the-Wisp (2013) Soloist: Piccolo

Orchestral Winds and Percussion

  • Requiem for a Magical America: El Día de los Muertos" (2006)

Soloist(s) and Large Ensemble

  • Compadre Huashayo (2012) Soloists: 3 Male voices; Ensemble: 3 Quena (3 Quenilla), 2 Flauta de Pan, 2 Zampoña, 6 Toyo, 6 Percussion, 4 Charango, 4 Bandolín, 4 Bandola, 6 Guitarra, Arpa Andina, Contrabass
  • Haillí Lírico (2010) Soloist: Violin; Large Ensemble: 4fl, 2perc, 4vn, 2va, 2vc, 2db

Opera

  • El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) (2022[11])

Notes

  1. ^ "Gabriela Lena Frank: Composite Identity". April 2008.
  2. ^ . Carnegie Hall website. Carnegie Hall. Archived from the original on 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  3. ^ http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-27/news/34765471_1_yannick-n-zet-s-guin-leonard-bernstein-s-serenade-gabriela-lena-frank[bare URL]
  4. ^ Zwiebach, Michael (August 18, 2009). "Joint Interview with Berkeley Symphony'sNew Director and Its Creative Advisor". San Francisco Classical Voice.
  5. ^ United States Artists Official Website November 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
  7. ^ "Naxos Classical Music - Naxos Album Reviews".
  8. ^ . www.usaprojects.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-17.
  9. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
  10. ^ "The Heinz Awards :: Gabriela Lena Frank". www.heinzawards.net. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  11. ^ May, Thomas (2022-10-19). "From the Underworld to Our World: An Opera About Frida and Diego". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.

References

  • Clark, W. A. (2012). "Latin American Impact on Contemporary Classical Music". In Moore, R. and W. A. Clark (ed.), Musics of Latin America. W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Hayes, D. (2011). "Gabriela Lena Frank". In M. Slayton (ed.), Women of influence in contemporary music: Nine American composers (pp. 85–140). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  • Kelly, J. (2013). In her own words: conversations with composers in the United States. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.

External links

  • Gabriela Lena Frank page - Wise Music Classical (Schirmer)
  • Interview with Gabriela Lena Frank on New Music Box 2010-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
  • Gabriela Lena Frank: The Well-Grounded Composer - Article in San Francisco Classical Voice
  • Journey Into Faith: The Creation of Holy Sisters - Article in San Francisco Classical Voice
  • Santos: The Powers That She - Article in San Francisco Classical Voice
  • Aural journeys with uncommon folk - Article in L.A. Times
  • Gabriela Lena Frank works in two Boston-area concerts - Article in Boston Globe
  • Composer Gabriela Lena Frank bursting with ideas - Article in Philadelphia Inquirer
  • "Gabriela Lena Frank's energetic chamber works reveal her multi-cultural roots" - Review in Chicago Tribune
  • Some delights among the duds in MusicNOW season finale at Harris Theater - Review in Chicago Tribune

March 05, 2023
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Gabriela Lena Frank born Berkeley California United States September 1972 is an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music Contents 1 Biography 2 Style 3 Professional life 4 Selected works 4 1 Orchestra 4 2 Soloist s and orchestra 4 3 Orchestral Winds and Percussion 4 4 Soloist s and Large Ensemble 4 5 Opera 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksBiography EditGabriela Lena Frank s father is an American of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mother is Peruvian of Chinese descent She grew up in Berkeley California Her parents met when her father was a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the 1960s Frank received her bachelor s and master s degrees from Rice University and a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan in 2001 She has studied composition with Paul Cooper William Albright Leslie Bassett William Bolcom Michael Daugherty and Samuel Jones Style EditFrank s work often draws on her multicultural background especially her mother s Peruvian heritage In many of her compositions she elicits the sounds of Latin American instruments such as Peruvian pan flute or charango guitar although the works are typically scored for Western classical instruments and ensembles such as the symphony orchestra or string quartet She has said I think the music can be seen as a by product of my always trying to figure out how Latina I am and how gringa I am 1 In recent years compositional philosophical links have been made to composers such as Bela Bartok Benjamin Britten and Chou Wen chung citation needed Professional life EditFrank s music has been commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet pipa virtuoso Wu Man San Francisco Symphony Houston Symphony Chanticleer Ensemble the Chiara String Quartet the Brentano Quartet Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project the Marilyn Horne Foundation guitarist Manuel Barrueco with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano the King s Singers directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Wu Han and David Finckel soprano Dawn Upshaw and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra and others She has received multiple commission from Carnegie Hall 2 Her piece Concertino Cusqueno was commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra in celebration of the start of that organization s newest conductor Yannick Nezet Seguin 3 Past performances include those by the Boston Symphony the San Francisco Symphony the Chicago Symphony the Atlanta Symphony the Baltimore Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella series She has an upcoming commissioned premiere with The Cleveland Orchestra in May 2014 and another commissioned premiere with the Houston Symphony in September 2014 She has served as composer in residence with many institutions including the Modesto Symphony the Fort Worth Symphony the Indianapolis Symphony the Aspen Music Festival the Seattle Symphony the Nashville Symphony the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Between 2009 and 2012 she served as the Creative Advisor to her hometown orchestra the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under the baton of frequent collaborator Joana Carneiro before stepping down to spend more time composing 4 Frank currently serves as composer in residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin and the Houston Symphony under the baton of Andres Orozco Estrada She has been featured at many festivals around the world including Music Menlo Tanglewood Music Festival SongFest and with the Chicago Chamber Players among others 2009 saw Frank receive her first Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Latin Grammy Award for best Contemporary Classical Music Composition for Inca Dances Tonar Label which was written for guitarist Manuel Barrueco and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano She was also the feature of her first PBS documentary entitled Peregrinos produced by Emmy winning producer Aric Hartvig regarding her residency with the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra where with an award from the Joyce Foundation she composed a work inspired by the stories of Latino immigrants in Indianapolis In 2010 Frank won a United States Artists Fellow award 5 Gabriela Lena Frank is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble under the direction of cellist Yo Yo Ma Her composition Ritmos Anchinos appears on the Silk Road Ensemble s album Off the Map World Village amp In a Circle Records 2009 Off the Map was nominated for a 2011 Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album Also in 2011 Frank released a complete CD of her works entitled Hilos on the Naxos label with the Nashville based ALIAS Ensemble featuring a new mixed quartet written expressly for ALIAS In its first week of release it broke into the Billboard s top 100 Classical Recordings and was subsequently awarded a rare 10 10 rating by Classics Today Hilos was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award in the category of Best Small Ensemble Performance on which Frank plays piano 6 It has received more than a dozen positive reviews 7 In 2012 Frank was sponsored by the US Quito Embassy in Ecuador and small crowdsourced private donors through USA Artists to compose a new work for the Ecuadoran group La Orquesta de Instrumentos Andinos Orchestra of Andean Instruments The work Compadre Huashayo is to be played entirely on indigenous instruments while drawing on a mix of modernist classical and traditional indigenous practices 8 Once again PBS profiled Frank in a documentary likewise entitled Compadre Huashayo that was premiered in fall 2013 In 2013 Frank received the Medal of Excellence from the Sphinx Organization for outstanding young Black and Latino leaders in classical music She received her award in a ceremony at the Supreme Court in Washington D C meeting Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Ginsburg 9 Later that year she released another CD of her chamber works with Meme Ensemble on the Albany Records label Frank is frequently performed by the Caminos del Inka collective under the direction of conductor Miguel Harth Bedoya She works closely with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz in the creation of original new musical works for voice Their first collaboration was a set of orchestra songs for Dawn Upshaw and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra Frank is also a Grammy nominated pianist She has recorded the complete piano works of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Bassett on the Equilibrium label Recent performances include those with current and former members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic the San Francisco Symphony the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra St Luke s Orchestra the Lydian Quartet the Manhattan Quartet and the Boston Symphony Orchestra Frank is a freelance composer who left her native San Francisco Bay Area in the fall of 2015 to start a farm with her husband in the town of Boonville California in Mendocino County In 2017 she founded her own school the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music www glfcam com for emerging composers to work with renowned performers She travels frequently throughout North and South America She is also often a guest artist at universities and conservatories giving performances lectures and lessons In 2020 Dr Frank received the 25th Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities for her work weaving Latin American influences into classical constructs and breaking gender disability and cultural barriers in classical music composition 10 Selected works EditOrchestra Edit Apu Tone Poem for Orchestra 2017 Commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America Concertino Cusqueno 2012 Elegia Andina 2000 Escaramuza 2010 Five Scenes 2015 Karnavalingo 2013 Leyendas An Andean Walkabout string orchestra 2001 Manchay Tiempo Time of Fear 2005 Peregrinos 2009 Raices 2012 Requiem for a Magical America El Dia de los Muertos orchestral version 2012 Three Latin American Dances for Orchestra 2003 Two American Portraits 2008 Two Peruvian Dances for beginning string orchestra 2015 Walkabout Concerto for Orchestra 2016 Soloist s and orchestra Edit La Centinela y la Paloma The Keeper and the Dove 2010 Soloist Soprano Compadrazgo 2007 Soloists Piano cello Cuentos Errantes Four New Folk Songs 2015 Soloist Piano Havana Jila 2003 Violin Illapa Tone Poem for Flute and Orchestra 2004 Soloist Flute Journey of the Shadow 2013 Soloist Narrator La Llorona Tone Poem for Viola and Orchestra 2007 Soloist Viola Will o the Wisp 2013 Soloist PiccoloOrchestral Winds and Percussion Edit Requiem for a Magical America El Dia de los Muertos 2006 Soloist s and Large Ensemble Edit Compadre Huashayo 2012 Soloists 3 Male voices Ensemble 3 Quena 3 Quenilla 2 Flauta de Pan 2 Zampona 6 Toyo 6 Percussion 4 Charango 4 Bandolin 4 Bandola 6 Guitarra Arpa Andina Contrabass Hailli Lirico 2010 Soloist Violin Large Ensemble 4fl 2perc 4vn 2va 2vc 2dbOpera Edit El ultimo sueno de Frida y Diego The Last Dream of Frida and Diego 2022 11 Notes Edit Gabriela Lena Frank Composite Identity April 2008 Carnegie Hall Commissions Carnegie Hall website Carnegie Hall Archived from the original on 2007 12 17 Retrieved 2008 03 31 http articles philly com 2012 10 27 news 34765471 1 yannick n zet s guin leonard bernstein s serenade gabriela lena frank bare URL Zwiebach Michael August 18 2009 Joint Interview with Berkeley Symphony sNew Director and Its Creative Advisor San Francisco Classical Voice United States Artists Official Website Archived November 10 2010 at the Wayback Machine 54th Annual Grammy Awards Nominees for Classical Music 2012 Archived from the original on 2014 04 23 Retrieved 2014 04 21 Naxos Classical Music Naxos Album Reviews Compadre Huashayo by Gabriela Lena Frank Music USA Projects Artist Fundraising amp Advocacy www usaprojects org Archived from the original on 2012 06 17 Sphinx Organization Sphinx Medals of Excellence Archived from the original on 2014 04 22 Retrieved 2014 04 21 The Heinz Awards Gabriela Lena Frank www heinzawards net Retrieved 2020 10 19 May Thomas 2022 10 19 From the Underworld to Our World An Opera About Frida and Diego The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 02 10 References EditClark W A 2012 Latin American Impact on Contemporary Classical Music In Moore R and W A Clark ed Musics of Latin America W W Norton amp Company Hayes D 2011 Gabriela Lena Frank In M Slayton ed Women of influence in contemporary music Nine American composers pp 85 140 Lanham MD Scarecrow Press Inc Kelly J 2013 In her own words conversations with composers in the United States Champaign IL University of Illinois Press External links EditGabriela Lena Frank page Wise Music Classical Schirmer The Beautiful Next Step An In depth Interview with Composer Gabriela Lena Frank in 8 parts Interview with Gabriela Lena Frank on New Music Box Archived 2010 12 19 at the Wayback Machine Gabriela Lena Frank The Well Grounded Composer Article in San Francisco Classical Voice Journey Into Faith The Creation of Holy Sisters Article in San Francisco Classical Voice Santos The Powers That She Article in San Francisco Classical Voice Aural journeys with uncommon folk Article in L A Times Gabriela Lena Frank works in two Boston area concerts Article in Boston Globe Composer Gabriela Lena Frank bursting with ideas Article in Philadelphia Inquirer Gabriela Lena Frank s energetic chamber works reveal her multi cultural roots Review in Chicago Tribune Some delights among the duds in MusicNOW season finale at Harris Theater Review in Chicago Tribune Relevant Tones with in studio guest Gabriela Lena Frank Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gabriela Lena Frank amp oldid 1138588415, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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