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Event:

  Guest Artist Series: Elisenda Fabregas, composer/pianist

Description:

 

Date:

 

September 11, 2000

Start Time:

08:00 PM

End Time:

10:00 PM

Location:

 

Centennial East

Room:

 

Kemp Recital Hall

Fee:

 

Admission is Free of Charge

Contact:

 

Kim Risinger

Phone:

 

309-438-8100

E-mail:

 

kmrisin@ilstu.edu

Web Site:

 

www.arts.ilstu.edu/music/faculty/risinger/index.html

     
   

Additional Information:

 

 

Elisenda Fabregas is a composer, pianist, and teacher. Born in Barcelona, she has been living in the U.S. since 1978, when a Fulbright grant brought her to The Juilliard School; she earned another doctorate in music at Columbia University. Fabregas has composed for several dance companies and choreographers in New York, including Jerome Robbins and Hector Zaraspe.

 

 

Fabregas' music has been heard throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Spain, The Czech Republic, Taiwan, Japan and China. Mirage, for solo piano, the Andrew Gurwitz Memorial Commission for the 1997 San Antonio International Piano Competition, was premiered in 1998 by the contest's Gold Medalist at Merkin Concert Hall, New York.

 

 

As a pianist, she has performed in Spain, England, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the U.S., appearing in places like Carnegie Recital Hall, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and the United Nations Women's Conference in Beijing. She has also performed live on New York radio, NPR's "Performance Today", and the Voice of America. Currently, Elisenda is an Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Accommodations:

 

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