Gabriela Lena Frank on Stoking the Engines of Creativity in Hard Times (San Francisco Classical Voice)

By Lou Fancher

Countering the pandemic’s paralyzing effect on musicians due to concert and commissioning cancellations, composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank is moving swifter than a meteor.

Since March 2020, the Berkeley-born musician has won a $250,000 Heinz Award, initiated a goal-exceeding Covid Response GoFundMe campaign that resulted in Pairings (an online series of 65 new works featuring performer-composer teams), expanded her staff, and launched an online learning program offered by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy, which is based in Boonville, a small rural town in California’s Anderson Valley.

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