Frank: World Premieres

1st March 2008

Spring is a busy season for Gabriela Lena Frank who will hear the world premieres of five new works.

On 25 March, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, under the baton of Joana Carneiro, will present New Andean Songs on their Green Umbrella series with special guests soprano Tony Arnold and mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway.

Guitarist Manuel Barrueco and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano launch a world-wide tour in Mexico City
on 11 April featuring Frank’s Inca Dances.

Frank’s composer-residency with the Modesto Symphony culminates with the premiere of her Two American Portraits with conductor David Alan Miller on 9 May. Concertante presents the premiere of Hypnagogia
on 17 May in Harrisburg, PA.

Finally, on 30 May, Odes to Neruda will be performed by the Adorno Ensemble and soprano Lucy Shelton at San Francisco’s de Young Museum.


New Andean Songs 21'
Soprano, Mezzo-
soprano, 2perc, 2pf

Inca Dances 21'
guitar, str quartet

Two American Portraits 15'
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timp.3perc/hp/str

Hypnagogia 15'
2vn, 2va, 2vc

Odes to Neruda 15'
Soprano, cl, perc,
pf, vn, vc