ELISENDA FÁBREGAS Catalan Spanish/American composer Elisenda Fábregas is currently resident composer at the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona for the 2023-24 season, with several commissions and concerts of her music at the Palau during 2024. Recordings of Elisenda’s music are available on Naxos, Bridge Records, Haenssler, Albany Records, Centaur Records, Mundo Arts, Odradek, lbs Classical, Mundo Arts & NCA Classical Adventure Records; and her music is published by Hofmeister MusikVerlag (Leipzig, Germany), Alphonse Leduc & Cie. (Paris.), and Hidden Oaks Music Co. Elisenda has been praised for writing with an “imaginatively colored... idiom” (The New York Times). In occasion of winning the MTNA Shepherd Distinguished Composer Award, the American Teacher Magazine praised Fábregas for writing with a unique perspective comparing her to the “The man with a Blue Guitar” (1937) in the Wallace Stevens’s poem: “Fábregas is one gifted with a blue guitar. Her tunes are beyond us, yet ourselves. Indeed, they are tunes of things exactly as they are.” Elisenda has a multifaceted career as a composer, pianist and lecturer. She earned a DMA in composition from include: Hopkins Peabody Institute; EdD from Columbia University, and MM from the Juilliard School (piano performance.) She has lived and taught in Seoul as a Visiting professor (2010-2022); and in the USA from 1978-2010. A native of Terrassa (Barcelona) she resides in Catalunya since 2022. http://elisendafabregas.com