Fabián Panisello

Fabián Panisello (born October 1, 1963 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an Argentine composer and conductor.

Life

Panisello studied composition with Francisco Kröpfl in Buenos Aires and with Boguslaw Schaeffer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He received his Magister Artium in 1993 with distinction and a special prize from the Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture. He intensified his musical training with Elliott Carter , Franco Donatoni , Brian Ferneyhough and Luis de Pablo , as well as with the conductors Péter Eötvös and Jorma Panula . As a composer and conductor of contemporary music he worked in Spain and Europe. Panisello received commissions from international orchestras and music festivals.

Fabián Panisello has worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen , Susanna Mälkki and Peter Eötvös. His collaboration with the orchestras and ensembles SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchester de l'Opéra de Lyon (France), the Ensemble Modern, the PluralEnsemble, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Israeli Contemporary Players and the Meitar Ensemble (selection). He is the founder and conductor of the PluralEnsemble. Fabián Panisello is a member of the Academia de Bellas Artes in Argentina, a member of the academic committee of the Fundación Osaac Albéniz and a member of the advisory board of the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Panisello publishes his works in Musikverlag Peters, Frankfurt. Panisello lives in Madrid, Spain.

Teaching

In addition to his work as a composer and conductor, Panisello is also Professor of Composition at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (Madrid), one of the most renowned elite centers in Europe, and visiting professor at the China Conservatory in Beijing.

As an educator and lecturer, he has given and still gives master classes and seminars in composition, conducting and music analysis at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku in Tokyo, the Manhattan School of Music, the Jerusalem Academy, the UC Davies en California, the Universidad de Zaragoza, and at universities in Graz (Austria) and Tel Aviv (Israel).

Awards (selection)

Prize of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1988, Buenos Aires)
Prize of Mozart's Heirs (1991, Salzburg)
Appreciation Award (1993, Vienna)
Editar competition (1995, Buenos Aires)
“Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter” Prize for Composition, First Prize (2004, México)

Publications (selection)

Orchestral works without soloists

Aksaks (October 2008, Donaueschingen)
Mandala (October 2009, Madrid)
Cuadernos para Orquesta (July 22, 2004, Madrid)

Orchestral works with soloists

Movements for Piano and Orchestra (May 2010, Madrid)
Concierto para trompeta (January 2010, Berlin)
Concierto para violín (February 2004, Madrid)

Operas

Le Malentendu; Chamber opera on the work of the same name by Albert Camus, libretto: Juan Lucas (world premiere March 2016, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires)
Les Rois Mages; Multimedia musical theater based on the book by Michael Tournier with a libretto by Gilles Rico (world premiere January 2018, Auditorio Nacional, Madrid)

Ensemble pieces for more than five instruments

Solstice (2013, Madrid and Frankfurt)
Concierto de cámara (May 2005, Lyon)
Moods II (2001, Alicante)
Vocal works
L'Officina della Resurrezione (2013, Tel Aviv), for baritone, electronics and string quartet
L'Officina della Resurrezione versión II (2014, Katowice), for baritone, speaking choir, electronics and string quartet
Gothic Songs (2012, Alte Oper Frankfurt)
Libro del frío (September 2011, Schwaz Austria), for soprano, fl, cl, vl, vla, vc, pf.

Other works

Three Movements for String Quartet (2006, Takefu, Japón)
Cinco piezas metricas (2000)
Trio II (1996)
Piano Etudes Volume I (2008)
Piano Etudes Volume II (2015)

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personal data
SURNAME	Panisello, Fabián
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires , Argentina