Violin and piano works, played with passion and elegance.

6 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Sonata, CLASSICAL: Debussy



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Fabián López is a native of Málaga, Spain. He started playing violin at the age of eleven. Upon graduation from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga, he received a scholarship from the Hispanic-American Joint Commitee/Fullbright Commission, to study further at Colgate University. This was the beginning of a process that has lasted for ten years. His principal teachers have been: Nicolae Duca, Laura Klugherz, Kevork Mardirossian, and Camilla Wicks.

Fabián has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as: Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, Orquesta Ciudad de Córdoba, Chamber Orchestra of Andalucía, Orquesta Filarmónia de Málaga, Orquesta Ciudad de Almeria, âManuel de Fallaâ Chamber Orchestra, etc. In the pedagogical terrain, Fabián has given courses and master classes for the Youth Orchestra of Andalucía (O.J.A.), and in Granada, Adra, Cartagena, West Virginia University, Mercer University, Louisiana State University, and Hebert Springs. As a jury member he has been in the I International Violin Competition âViolines por la Pazâ, in Jaen, Auditions for Violin Professors in Spanish National Conservatories, and The Concerto Competition of the Superior Conservatory of Music of Granada. Fabián taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music âManuel de Fallaâ of Cádiz, Spain (1999-2004). Recently, he has been appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

During his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Fabián had the opportunity of playing a concert with the Guarnerius del Gesu that belonged to J. Heifetz. He is the lucky owner of a violin by Ioan Guillami, 1726, which is called âlittle stradâ among friends. He graduated from Baylor University (M.M.), studying with Bruce Berg, and from The University of Michigan (D.M.A.), studying with Andrew Jennings. He is happily married and lives with his wife, Sinthia Pérez, a terrific harpist, and his dog Max.