Gabriela Lena Frank: From Ivory Tower to Redwood Country (Aspen Music Festival)

by Deborah Hayes

Gabriela Lena Frank writes music for a wide range of audiences, from seasoned concertgoers to neophytes, in concert halls, community centers, hospitals, schools, prisons, and even less traditional venues. Now she is engaged in an extraordinary educational project. In 2017, in collaboration with her husband, Jeremy Lyon, she founded the non-profit Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (GLFCAM), located in the tiny rural town of Boonville in northern California’s Anderson Valley. With an impressive roster of faculty performer-mentors, composer-lecturers, and cooperating performance organizations, the Academy teaches emerging music-makers that access to the creative arts and self-expression is indispensable to everyone.

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