Gabriela Lena Frank

Emeryville, CA

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Influenced by her Peruvian-Jewish-Chinese-Lithuanian heritage, pianist and composer Gabriela Lena Frank combines her studies of Latino/Latin American mythology, poetry, and folk music with Western classical forms. She attended Rice University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Frank composes for solo instrumentalists, singers, chamber ensembles, and orchestras, utilizing Western and non-Western instruments. She has composed works for the King’s Singers, the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.