Biography
Gabriela Lena Frank's father is an American of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mother is Peruvian of Chinese descent. She grew up in Berkeley, California. Her parents met when her father was a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the 1960s.
Frank is a graduate of Rice University and received a D.M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Michigan in 2001. She has studied composition with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Samuel Jones. While she was still a doctoral student, in 2000 her "Sonata Andina" was among the winners in a professional competition, the Search for New Music of the International Alliance for Women in Music.
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