Gabriela Lena Frank

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Gabriela Lena Frank (b. Berkeley, California, United States, September 1972) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. 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 is a graduate of Rice University and received a D.M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Michigan in 2001. She has studied composition with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Samuel Jones. While she was still a doctoral student, in 2000 her "Sonata Andina" was among the winners in a professional competition, the Search for New Music of the International Alliance for Women in Music. 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, Carnegie Hall, the Marilyn Horne Foundation, guitarist Manuel Barrueco with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the King's Singers, directors of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center Wu Han and David Finckel (also cellist with the Emerson Quartet), soprano Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and others. Past performances include those by the Boston Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the A

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Off The Map

Frank: Hilos

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G.L. Frank: Hilos

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Ring of Fire

Her Own Wings

Gabriela Lena Frank: Compadrazgo

Power to the Women: The Best of Female Classical Composers

Zia: Del Sol String Quartet

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New Worlds

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Five Andean Improvisations for Flute and Piano: I. Quena

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Reference Recordings 30th Anniversary Sampler

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Triumvirate: 3 Composers • 3 Concertos • 3 World Premieres

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