Fabián Panisello

Fabián Panisello (born 11 October 1963) is an Argentine composer, conductor and educator.

Panisello was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition in Buenos Aires with Francisco Kröpfl and in the Mozarteum of Salzburg with Boguslaw Schaeffer (Magister Atrium, 1993; Diploma of Excellence and Special Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Austria). He completed his musical studies with composers such as Elliott Carter, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough and Luis de Pablo, as well as with conductors such as Peter Eötvös y Jorma Panula.

Panisello receives commissions from important orchestras and festivals throughout the world. He has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Susanna Mälkki and Peter Eötvös and has worked with orchestras and ensembles including SWR, Orchestra of Southeast Germany, WDR, Orchestra of Cologne, German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Orchestra of the Mozarteum of Salzburg, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Opera of Lyon, Ensemble Modern, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Israeli Contemporary Players y Meitar Ensemble.

He is the founding director of PluralEnsemble in Spain, and is also the Director of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. He is a member of the Academia de Bellas Artes of Argentina, of the Academic Committee of the Fundación Isaac Albéniz and of the Consulting Council of the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Panisello is the Director of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. He has been invited to lecture at the Gedai School in Tokyo, Manhattan School of Music, Jerusalem Academy, University of California at Davis, University of Zaragoza and Catholic University of Music in Santiago de Chile, as well as the universities of Graz, Austria and Tel Aviv, giving master classes and seminars on composition, conducting and musical analysis.

Panisello's prizes include the following:

• Premio de Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1988, Buenos Aires)
• Mozarts Erben Prize (1991, Salzburg)
• Würdigungspreis, Recognition Award (1993, Vienna)
• Editar Competition (1995, Buenos Aires)
• Premio Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter de Composición, First Prize (2004, Mexico)

Works for orchestra without soloist

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

Orchesterwerke mit Solisten

• Movements for piano and Orchestra (May 2010, Madrid)
• Concierto para trompeta (January 2010, Berlín)
• Concierto para violín (February 2004, Madrid) 

Opera

• Le malentendu, chamber opera after the work of the same name by Albert Camus with libretto by Juan Lucas (première March 2016, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires)

Works for ensembles of more than five instruments

• Solstice (2013, Madrid and Frankfurt)
• Concierto de cámara (May 2005, Lyon)
• Moods II (2001, Alicante)

Works for voice

• L'Officina della resurrezione (2013, Tel Aviv) for baritone, electronics and string quartet
• L'Officina della resurrezione, Versión II (2014, Katowice) for baritone, spoken chorus, electronics and string orchestra
• Gothic Songs (2012, Alte Oper Frankfurt)
• Libro del frío (September 2011, Schwaz, Austria) for soprano, fl, cl, vl, vla, vc, pf

Works for homogeneous formations

• Three Movements for String Quartet (2006, Takefu, Japan)
• Cinco piezas métricas (2000)
• Trio II (1996)
• Klavieretüden Band I (2008)
• Klavieretüden Band II (2015)

He is currently working on the composition of a chamber opera for an international co-production between Austria, Argentina and Poland which will be premièred in 2016.